KICKING OUT A HOMELESS MAN AND MORE WALLPAPER REMOVAL

Picture of the closet door in my studio.  When you look at this door frame you can really see how uneven the house is but this picture does not do it justice.  That corner by the door frame is definitely a high spot.

That hideous bathroom is gone.  This is the weekend that we had a homeless man build himself a shelter on the side of our garage.  I had to chase him off and eventually ended up calling the police.  He had a fire right beside our garage.  That garage has our kitchen cabinets, old farmhouse front door, and all the old windows that I have collected.  It would have been a huge loss if he caught our garage on fire. I was so so very mad.

I piled up all the wood that was laying in the yard while Chad was working on taking down the bathroom.

Chad started the job of removing the front porch floor so the house can be moved.  

More than half of the front porch floor is gone.  Found a cat skeleton under there as well as some old tin cans.

The rats chewed a hole in the heating venting.  Gross, gross, gross.

More front porch removal. 

I discovered a faster and better way of removing this paper backing from the wallpaper.  Cleaning vinegar.  I spray it and saturate the paper and let it sit for a bit and then scrap it off.  I then do a second round to get the remaining paper and the wallpaper glue.  It works great and makes me feel like I am cleaning these old walls. This is the upstairs hallway.  I am thinking breadboard on the bottom of the wall and shiplap on the top.  

There are a few damaged shiplap boards.  The boards are super hard to remove without damaging them so I am not sure what we will do about these damaged ones.  Embrace it?

I will never get tired of this beautiful wood.  The trim must have been painted before the wallpaper. 

The studio.  Getting closer and closer to getting rid of this wallpaper backer. 

Chad started removing the skirting for the house move.  One of those middle posts is really leaning.  I should have taken a better picture.  It is wild to see what is holding this house up.

The truck died again but luckily we were in town this time and it wasn't loaded down.  It broke down as we were leaving the hardware store.  We went back at night and towed it with the Ionic.  This was very nerve wracking for me. 

My steamer broke but I rigged it up and it seems to be working okay.  Getting the paper backer off the ceiling is a real bitch. 

This is step one of the cleaning vinegar removal.  I have sprayed this section down with the vinegar.

This is the first scraping.  Definitely faster than the steamer. 

Getting the wallpaper off the ceiling is a hard job.  It comes off in tiny pieces and it is hard working over your head like that. 

All the wallpaper backing has been removed from the studio.  Now I need to clean the walls and sand.  It was so damp in here from all the steaming that we left the windows open.  

Chad had to work in Burlington on Wednesday so he dropped me off at the house. I got a lot done.  I may try steaming that ceiling wallpaper off.  It is frustratingly slow to get that stuff off.

I also started sanding the trim boards and was going to start on the doors but there are so many layers of paint on the doors.  I am going to try my cobra heat paint remover. I still plan on painting them white but I can't just paint over all that paint.