Home Renos - Tear the Roof Off!

It started Tuesday when they delivered the dumpster.

I never thought I would get excited about seeing a dumpster in my driveway, but yes, there I was feeling the slight fluttering of anticipation. To you a dumpster, to me, one step closer to my bigger closet!

Wednesday at 8:30 is when the actual work began. We had cleaned out our garage prior to this. Basically they started by tearing down a lot of the siding. Not terribly exciting from the outside (unless you are 2 and 5 like my boys), but progress is progress.



The side of our house after Day 1

The front of our house after Day 1
And yes, our builder's name really is 'Bobby the Builder'

And they took out the ceiling in the garage.

We also learned on Wednesday that we would need to empty out our dining room and since Joe was going to be getting on a flight late Wednesday night and not returning until Sunday night, that meant we didn't have much time to get it done!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!

If your dining room is like mine, then you know this is no small feat. I have a hutch that is filled with all our wine glasses, champagne flutes, tea cups, china and glass vases...all of which had to be carefully taken out and temporarily put on our kitchen table while we moved the hutch and then carefully put back in. We also had to find places for all of the dining room furniture - the hutch is now in our kitchen, the dining room table and chairs are in the basement and our buffet and large plant are in the living room. (Needless to say, I do not plan on entertaining for the next little while) The one saving grace is that when we first got our furniture we put those felt patches on the bottom of the legs, thus making it easy to slide them along the floor. Once the dining room was empty, any sound made in or around there echoed - my boys were totally digging that.

So I was out for most of the day on Thursday and it was dark when the boys and I returned home. But even in the dark I could see the major work that had been done - we no longer had our peaked roof over the garage and front entrance. However, it was still quite a shock when I opened the door leading into the garage, looked up and saw stars!  Yup, they had torn down the roof!

Another view from inside the garage

This is the view in the morning of the side of our house after Day 2

This is the view from inside the garage in the morning



Today was Day 3 and the workers spent the day rebuilding the ceiling to our garage (and I guess technically the floor to our upstairs bedroom).

Tomorrow, I heard a rumour that they are taking out the dining room ceiling - eek!