Laborious Kitch

It's great to have a clean kitchen.
But a clean kitchen comes with a lot of labor even while it functions normally.
When you're destroying it, the cleaning becomes much more difficult.

After you're done with destroying only 1/2 of the space, it's a huge mess. No one can get through without serious risks of Cancer.

Just kidding.
But there IS a lot of dust. Dust that has circled the area for 30 years.
That part can be dealt with using the Shop Vac. But the part I cannot take right now is the stuff falling through from the ceiling. We had to remove soffits.

My general feeling right now is that we never, ever, ever want to remove a soffet again.(we will remove more soffets in this old house)
They are very hard to remove without damaging a large part of the dry-wall they are attached to and they tend to reveal, in this case, the one place where good construction took a back seat to a quick finish. See Above-

This is the second place that I found where the area behind a soffet revealed collapsing dry-wall from the ceiling. The problem is that when that collapses, rock wool falls.

I've been told this is rock wool, anyway. I'm not sure.
But I know that I was in the attic a week ago, hanging the fans, and I breathed in a lot of that stuff.

More importantly, it's falling into the kitchen. I can't stand that. I've been doing everything I can to avoid it falling - including using some of the soffet dry-wall scraps to stop it. Here I have half of the kitchen removed. And I've used some of the stuff you see leaning against the wall as my safe guard until I get the final dry-wall.

Unfortunately, I have more soffet to remove. More Kitchen to remove. When will the day come? When we can cook up some Thai Stir Fry? Good Lord, We want some Pad Thai!!!!

Right now we eat whatever we can find in a box. And that's not very green. Kind of depressing.

PS. I've looked up the term "SOFFET" and I found several results. My original thought was that it was "Sauphet," which was entirely incorrect. But the accepted spellings were "soffit" and "soffet" as far as this situation requires. Coincidentally, when I google "sauphet" I get Thai results.