The love starts with the demolition of the chimney and fireplace. As you may recall, the chimney is not so structurally sound anymore and needs to be taken down -- the foundation is cracked and the entire brick stack is peeling away from the house. No es bueno.
Here are the results! [Edit: for the impatient, here are the new chimney and "after" pictures]
Before:
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| The Mystery Spot. |
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| Those bricks moved. Creepily. |
After:
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| This hole goes down about 3 feet down into the crawlspace. |
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| Amy rises from 'neath the floor. Creepily. |
Before:
After:
All this took a day -- the before pictures were from the morning and the afters were from the night on the same day... No neighbors or neighbors' cars were injured. [Edit: talked to the mason the next day -- he said that 2x8 next to the hole in the roof was the only thing keeping that chimney from falling into the neighbors garage. He said it started peeling away towards the workers as they started demo... bullet dodged...]
[ "after" pictures of new chimney and hearth ]
Next up, demo of the other chimney!
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