Bench and Wall Demolition

Ok, Team. Here's the set of bench and wall demolition pics. You'll also notice that I removed a pretty ugly shelving unit thingie in the process. Because the wall was coming out, the shelving had to go.

Some of that stuff in the first pic is Drew's (storing it for the summer), and the instruments are awaiting a better day. Eventually in the basement we'll put a used drum set and an old electric organ, and the guitars and Meg's old bass will have some friends.






That's not wood-paneling. It's just the outer faux-paneling colored paper on the face of the sheetrock.

There was one big surprise during the project. The walls in the basement are comprised of a 1/4-inch sheet of plywood and a sheet of sheetrock on top. When I pulled away the first piece of sheetrock (first pic below), I saw the woah-daddy music/dance-themed plywood beneath. For a second I thought it was a layer of plastic or something like Tyvek, but on closer inspection, the plywood walls are *painted* with that design!

Someone did some serious work on those walls with stencils and tiny brushes to do the curling staff and notes! I wonder if it's all over the basement. Cool? Creepy?





So, I lied yesterday. I thought I removed 10 feet of wall, but it was only 8 feet. In fact, I think we're going to take another 3 to 4 feet from the remaining wall. Didn't want to cut it or remove it yet, because I don't know what's going to happen with the radon system piping. That's the PVC pipe you see coming out of the cement. It has an exit at the level of the roof. (You can see it coming out of the basement in the first set of pics here if you're interested.)

Where those cans of paint are, we'll have a little enclosed nook. There will still be enough space to walk behind the wall (about three feet) to get to the oil drum. This part of the project will add about 48 square feet of living space to the basement.