My Scary Day With the Ceiling

Have you ever played that game 'Don't Break the Ice'? That was my day today.

The mission of the day, get the ceiling down. At first we started picking up the insulation from the attic (this stuff was not the pink roll, btw, it was like stuffed animal fluff). There was a slight problem with this plan, though. The attic doesn't even have enough room for even little old me to stand in at its tallest and tapers smaller. So we were crawling on potentially unstable boards, hitting our heads ever other second so scoop the insulation up. Oh, and there was a double whammy to the insulation too. It was hot out that day, so short sleeve shirts were the most comfortable. But the stuff was itchy to the point of irritating. Uncomfortable one way or another.

It didn't take us long crawling another and causing ourselves brain damage for us to form another plan: just knock the ceiling down with insulation and pick it up on the floor. Now imagine yourself sitting on piece of ply wood suspended on boards that are ten feet in the air. You then do the smart thing and start hammering at the dry wall beneath you, the only thing that may keep you from falling if you accidentally slip or the ply wood breaks. As you watch the ceiling fall out from under you, you do what all experts tell you not to do in this situation, look down. Fun times. Btw, for those of you wondering, the climb up to the stair-less attic, not very fun either (well you get used to it after the first few times).

On the way back from lunch we encountered (by encounter I mean he was driving by and saw us renovating and thought to offer his services) a guy named Bill. Bill is a kitchen guy, but from the way he was talking he was a whole house guy. He threw out a bunch of crazy idea, basically changing things for the sake of changing them. He wanted to add two more sets of doors and move windows. I didn't care for it much. but he did come up with a good floor plan, which I will illustrate below:

The black lines are unmovable, blue are the current walls/fixtures and red would be the future walls.

After a day of work we got the living room and the kitchen ceilings done. We still have a third of the house to go. I don't know if we are going to be able to fit it into the dumpster or if we will have time to get it done.

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