Demolition continued with more Recycling & interesting finds: Antique bottles, post cards, playing cards, newspapers, Women's Club yearbooks from 1906-1909, more shoes, 1906 newspapers, old posts & nails that held the beams together, medicine bottles and more...
I dropped everything off at the Weymouth Historical Society and the curator there was so nice, knew so much about the town's History and gave me a tour of their house. Very exciting and interesting to see old maps, photos and other items from before our time. Fascinating.
In addition to the Antique findings we also discovered that the house had multiple fires.
We exposed beams & posts that were charred by either kitchen or fireplace fires, some beams were rotting, some bug damaged but more importantly we exposed beams that were over 280 years old that are still in GREAT CONDITION.
THESE BEAMS WE'RE KEEPING and reusing in the home. Now back to the drawing board to redraw the floor plans for the house.
We also had a little accident on site. Michael decided to play Russian Roulette with the rotting beams and stepped right through one dead center. Well you can all imagine what happened next... something straight out of a cartoon (however we didn't get it on film)... straight through to the basement feet first. The T-shirt didn't survive but Michael escaped death, head injuries, broken ribs and walked away with scraped skin down his back and some arm cuts & bruises. To me they looked really bad but "the tough guy" refused to have it checked out by a doctor and kept on working. He was very fortunate to have walked away with minimal injuries and thus far no infection.
The job site was shut down for a few days so he could finish up some smaller projects and now we're back at it again.
OUR PROGRESS THUS FAR:
Building permit is in hand and interior Demolition is complete!
Back room is rebuilt (Framed, Sheathed, Door & window installed)
Roof is rebuilt and New Roof is installed along with a new garage door
1st floor NEW BEAMS/JOISTS are 90% installed.
This coming week we will have the siding, windows and new doors installed and then framing begins.
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