Hamilton Project-page 10

August 11-14 What a weekend!!!! We decided we had to finish getting down the plaster in the upstairs bedrooms. The downstairs was pretty well gutted but we really needed to finish the upstairs. At some point the roof must have leaked badly so most of the plaster was damaged and was coming down whether we wanted it to or not. Then there was also the issue of the "chimmney". Apparently a wooden support was made and a brick chimmney on top of that. It is amazing that the house didn't burn down at some point because the creosote buildup was quite thick. When it rained the water washed this stuff all down the walls.

"Chimmney" with wooden base. Some kind of wood or coal stove was used in this room.

Every so often we had to stop to let the dust settle. Corn cobs, nuts, mouse stuff were falling down on us too.

 

I'm getting chunks of plaster from in between the beams. Karl is working on the chimmney-the cement and bricks here were really hard to break up. The backhoe really came in handy to help get rid of all the rubble.

Looking from kitchen up into bedroom.

 

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Things are looking a lot better! I woke up early this morning and caught the fog rising from the lake-such a beautiful site!

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