I really love demo. I love big open spaces. Makes me want to live in a big white box with beautiful windows and nothing in my house. But even demo costs money. You have to pay for it coming in and going out.
The first area to get the crowbar was the old porch or what we called the sunroom. Which was exactly that, an old porch that had been glassed in. To build up we have to rebuild the foundation in this area so that it is structural. It will look basically exactly the same when we are done but the ceiling will not be sloped. It will be a flat 8' like the rest of the first floor. For a day or so we were back to 1947 - you could see the painted roof overhang and the original porch covering. The white wall in the photos was the original back of the house. You can see that the door and windows were removed when they glassed in the porch, but the wall remained.
At this point it felt a little like a Greek villa with all the white sun-drenched walls and open air. I liked it. We even had a nice shady spot to pee. It was short-lived. The next day they started destroying the porch but in exchange they gave us this nice skylight! Seriously, the ceiling and roof is so crazy it is just humorous. The roof is flat, like flat flat. No hidden drainage. Just some tar paper basically over some boards. Right under the boards the previous owner had pieced together bits of pink foam. And then for good measure, since there was no other insulation, he just did another layer of pink foam instead of proper drywall.
By the end of the week they had the porch in pieces just waiting on the dumpster to be switched out so they could fill up a new one. And they started on some interior demo.
