The Kitchen Demo Begins

Since I am going to put some sweat equity in the kitchen and bathroom, I started on the tile floor in the kitchen. The "general contractor", who owned the house before Richard and I bought it in 1986, had installed ceramic tile over the original wood flooring. I guess he hadn't learned that wood has a life of its own. With each season the ceramic tile would crack some more.

Several years ago my Sweetie and I removed all of the tiles from the cooking side and the cracked ones from the eating side of the kitchen. We then sanded the original wood flooring and replaced the cracked ones in the eating side with whole ones we had salvaged from the cooking side.

Here are the promised photos:

Before: This section doesn't look too bad. But the ones which were cracked would clink together when the cats walked over them.



Such satisfaction to rip up those first tiles.



The first row done to the back door. Yay! Only 17 more to go.



The tools of the trade: Too bad I forgot to put the gloves on.



The Building Inspector is not happy. What did you do with my floor? How am I going to eat breakfast in here?