We are done with the demo of the very badly constructed (and unsafe) rear, two-story addition to the original home. Although we don't know exactly when the addition was added to the home, it was built by enclosing an existing 2 story porch at the rear of the house. The ceilings in the addition were lower than the main house, the floors weren't level, and the addition wasn't properly tied into the main structure - in short, it had to go. The house is vastly different now with the back quarter "missing" and this was a major undertaking.
Here's where we started:
After the porch screens were removed, the roof was the next to go:
Then the second story bit the dust....
.....and the first story started to disappear. As the addition was removed, the house was closed in with plywood - a temporary fix until the construction on the new addition begins.
A few views from inside illustrate the missing back of the house:
And, the end result is our beautiful patchwork home:
Completion of this huge demolition really marks a turning point in this long rehab process - soon we'll be done with all of the demolition and then the construction can begin.
