Let's see what we find in the walls this time

Two posts ago is a photo of the den before we started the demo. The demo that we were able to do consisted of all the walls. We didn't do the ceiling and will get to that later. We're going to try and not be so cold this time round.

In order to removed the wood paneling, we used a circular saw to cut right across the wall. This made the paneling a lot easier to remove. We found that the paneling was really only attached at the top and bottom, and that there was no drywall behind the paneling. The lack of drywall was nice because that meant that there was less to take to the dump (transfer station).

As you can see in the photos, we found some insulation in the walls! It was foil-backed fiberglass and about one inch thick.

As we were removing the paneling on the south wall of the room, we found a dead mouse. It had been dead for quite some time.

After we pulled the paneling off the west and south walls, we started on the north wall (which will be completely removed and rebuilt eventually). The north wall had 12" square ceiling tiles (painted white) on the surface. Beneath the 12" tiles was a layer of cellulose-based tiles that were about 12" x 24" (painted blue). Beneath the blue tiles was a layer of 3/4" thick sheathing planks.

My brother-in-law's friend came over and helped out with the demo, and his help was definitely appreciated. While I and the friend did demo, my spouse and brother-in-law made three dump runs. Taking the debris to the dump right away paid, off since the garbage didn't have a chance to get rained on and get heavy (the transfer station charges by weight).