That's just about where we're at with the new house; back to bare bones. After two stellar days when Manuel, David's dad, came to lend a professional hand we've made major progress. Before Manuel's arrival we were removing the drywall by literally smashing it with the sledgehammer, errr, fun but not exactly the smartest route. Now we use the jimmie, jimmie, lever technique; which brings a whole sheet down at a time. Who knew? Though, like high school calculus, we might not ever have any real-world application for this in the future (fingers crossed).

We're onto skip number 4 (the neighbours are counting, lol) and have pretty much hit a brick wall - All the old flooring is up throughout the main and second floor, we're back to studs on all walls that we're hoping to remove and the main floor ceiling is down too. Removing the strip wood flooring is the biggest pain ever, mainly because each and every nail has to be pulled out by claw hammer and - there -are - thousands - Ugh. We've just about crawled over every inch of sub-floor on nail patrol.

Next step is for our on-the-ball contractors Cera Stone to draw the plans, permit, and then execute setting a steel beam and two wood beams that will support the second floor.

The first couple of pics show what's left of the main floor living area, and old main floor shower room. The second couple show the master bedroom with the closets knocked out and the master bathroom sans tub, toilet, and wall. And, take a look here at the work on the house so far.