toil and trouble

Another toilsome day of kitchen duty, and the demolition phase of our project is officially complete. We finished emptying the back wall of fluffy black insulation and pried off the last of the wallboards and baseboards.

In the midst of this action, our cabinets and dishwasher arrived--even more elements of our kitchen stacked in other parts of the house in haphazard fashion.

The next to go was the old subfloor. At first examination, the floor appeared to be held in place by a few rusty nails. Unfortunately, closer insepction revealed that the plywood was in fact not only glued in place but also fastened by thousands of nails, most of which had to be pried out by hand.

At last our work is done for the day.