{"id":27,"date":"2012-07-30T18:10:34","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T18:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/?p=27"},"modified":"2012-08-13T18:35:53","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T18:35:53","slug":"big-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"1st Big Weekend!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend was the first time Siri and I really got some time to work on the house. \u00a0We spent Saturday morning taking down the drop ceilings and removing the partition walls on the 2nd and 3rd floors.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ykc2ffgfk1k?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The original <a title=\"7&quot; x 3&quot; joists\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/P1020432.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">7&#8243; x 3&#8243; joists<\/a> look great. \u00a0There was some remaining lath and plaster above the 2nd floor. \u00a0Amazing how that piled up. \u00a0Taking down the whole kitchen ceiling and wall is going to be quite a load!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_41\" style=\"width: 539px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/P1020467.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41\" class=\"size-large wp-image-41\" title=\"Piles of Plaster\" src=\"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/P1020467-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/P1020467-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/P1020467-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-41\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Piles of plaster after taking down what remained of the lathes and plaster above the drop ceiling.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After showers we headed off to The Home Depot for the 1st time.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26\" style=\"width: 826px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/1stHomeDepot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26\" class=\"wp-image-26 \" title=\"Big Weekend and 1st Trip to The Home Depot.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/1stHomeDepot.jpg\" alt=\"Siri and Mike at Home Depot for the 1st Time\" width=\"816\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/1stHomeDepot.jpg 816w, https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/1stHomeDepot-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 816px) 100vw, 816px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lets see if we still have smiles on our faces by the end of this project.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sunday was spent getting more of the dirty work done. \u00a0We started with tidying up the basement removing anything that we didnt need an electrician, plumber or gas fitter for. \u00a0There was a surprising lot we got done. \u00a0There were lots of clothes lines, rotting shelves, cable lines, phone lines&#8230; \u00a0we even found a 6&#8242; aluminum ladder. \u00a0We also tore out the duct work. \u00a0They were run incorrectly with the exhaust pipe running through the chimney, which was used as an air duct and had to go. \u00a0We&#8217;re doing radiant floor heating with a single water heater and will not need the ducting nor the chimney.<\/p>\n<p>We then moved onto removing the masonite and plaster on the 2nd to 3rd floor stairway. \u00a0What a transformation:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/P1020474.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28  \" title=\"Stairway\" src=\"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/P1020474-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/P1020474-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/P1020474-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ugly!<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/P1020468.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29 aligncenter\" title=\"Stairway\" src=\"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/P1020468-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/P1020468-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/P1020468-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This wall will involve a lot of pointing one day, but first it needs some bricks repaired at the top before we do the roof.<\/p>\n<p>After two days of work, we&#8217;ve got the living room stacked with laths, ceiling tiles, drywall, and\u00a010 giant trash bags full of insulation to haul to the dump. \u00a0Still working out how to get this stuff to the dump, but it needs to be done before we move on to the next step: demolition on the 1st floor ceiling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend was the first time Siri and I really got some time to work on the house. \u00a0We spent &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/?p=27\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,15,14],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home_improvement","tag-bricks","tag-demolition","tag-the-home-depot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}