Finally, winter broke and our house plans were finished. Permits were issued and it was time to demolish the additions! We received bids on the demo from $6,000.00 to $24,000.00. We decided to have Jeff do the demo since he planned to do it by hand to save the beams and some of the windows and not damage the stone. Not to worry - the addition on the side was never attached to the house it was just built next to it! There was a lot of rot since the flat roof in the kitchen had been leaking for some time. An old stone wall was found underneath the siding in the back but was in terrible shape. The sheetrock on the ceilings in the original stone house came down and revealed insulation that was full of mice and the things mice do. The smell was terrible. We took down the sheetrock from the interior walls and found aluminum wiring and more stinky insulation. To solve the problems of how to get new wiring and duct work into the stone house, we decided to stud out the interior walls. Much easier than going through stone so we are actually building a house within a house.
When we lived in the house, it was fairly original with the exception of the wood sided addition. In that addition were two bedrooms upstairs and a den downstairs. We added the kitchen. We also added the downstairs bathroom by the staircase.
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