Demo Prep - Part One

After reading the book Sheetrock and Shellac, I picked up some tips. Some were relevant and some were not.

Our kitchen is in the corner of our house layout. Adjacent to one side is a dining room and the other wall borders a third bedroom that leads into our main hallway. All are hardwood floors that were refinished 4 years ago when we moved in.

The process was to protect them for all the things that could mess them up during our process. Contractors with boots, falling hammers, appliance movement, etc.

Here is the process:
1) Clean the floors
2) Lay down rosin paper (in the roofing isle of Home Depot) and duct tape the paper pieces to cover the entire floor
3) 6 mil plastic (1000 sq ft costs $45!) is the next layer. This is laid down with excess up the baseboards.
4) Masonite or Eucaboard hardboard is the final step. This is essentially a second floor. I taped the pieces together with duct tape to keep the seams from rising up.




















What you are seeing is the dining room looking into the bedroom that are the two non-exterior walls of the kitchen.

Why the ribbons? When the dining room table is in the room, I never hit the crown of my head on the sharp bottom of the chandelier. I hit that thing 3 times yesterday, and when you are walking your eye catches those stupid ribbons and you look up. Hey, it works!

We did this little operation in: the dining room, 3rd bedroom, front foyer, main hallway. All in all, probably around 400 sq ft (give or take). It took an entire afternoon and approx $250 in materials, including a new circular saw.

Next step is to unload the kitchen cabinets and put up plastic curtains in all our doorways.