let's build some walls!

we kicked off the day with a 7am run to the dump to get rid of plaster, old cabinets, and the other assorted junk we collected from the past couple weeks of demo. no pics unfortunately, but the dump sure is an interesting place (and stinky).

before we could remove the wall between the old laundry room and the kitchen, we needed to transfer the load that was placed on it. a 14' 4x6 was hauled into the attic and extended the distance of the old support, thereby moving the load-bearing position from the wall we wanted to remove to the new wall we are building. isn't it pretty?



we also needed to deal with the wall that the kitchen shares with the dining room. the plan is to extend the arch doorway to open up the kitchen and to do so, we needed to extend the header.