The back, current state.
See the dark green and white tiles? One of the many levels of flooring. Everything has to come out. Even those big huge floor joists. Everything. It all has to be gutted — soon this will be just earth and roof, with the main house and the new room on either side holding the sides of the roof up. Since this room is off the kids’ room and our room, the bedrooms are really, really cold.
Click on the picture for a better view. Paul removed all electrics… finding two live wires in the wall. He capped off the gas line (number 4 — little black tube.) He cut the sewer line (number 7). And is getting ready to remove the floor on the other side of the house and do much of this all over again.
The pulled wire.
Debris — just from one side of the floor. It’s amazing how much debris comes out of a house!
Andrew Kottenstette | 23-Feb-08 at 12:02 am | Permalink
Oh Lord!
My sympathies.
I’ve heard that This Old House has started doing something on TV in NOLA. Is it me or does it seem like TOH has become more about surface treatment on these type of stories?
Years back I can recall how they went to Homestead, Florida after hurricaine Andrew to see what kind of wood withstood the winds. They really didn’t stick with the stories much, just the technical interest. Seeing a house tore up (or most of a city like New Orleans) for a long time just tears at my heart.
If some writer coming off the writer strike isn’t attending NOLA in some better way than just a cop drama, then something is really missing and wrong.