Tearing Down The Original Ceiling 4-28-07

Today we started working from the back to the front on the original ceiling.

This is going to be a huge job!!
There is a layer of tiles, plaster, lath and runners for the tiles to hang from.





I started removing the tiles first to see what was underneath them.

Mold, rotten wood, water.











This is looking towards the front of the building from where I started.

Got a long ways to go.















This is what I am dealing with.

I am some fifteen feet in the air and using a crowbar to pull this crap down.














Still going!


Here is the far back right corner that has been exposed.

The main supports look OK but the roof decking is not.
The roof deck is about four foot above these main supports. The mains are there for stucture with an additional frame built above it.


Me in the backroom trying to open the door.


This is the back wall of stain glass.
I just thought I would take a picture of the whole thing.
This is going to look great cleaned off.


Well this is were I almost died again.
You can see that a beam is missing.
Well that is because I was pulling down the lath and the beam broke in the middle and almost hit me in the head.

So that is it for today on the ceiling. I didn't get back up there.
I like to stop when I am ahead or at least still have a head!
Sorry for the bad joke!!



Here is half of the rotten beam that almost hit me.

Weighed about 60 pounds










This is the other half standing against the wall.

These beams are over 23 feet long. They are all old cut lumber. I guess it is OK that it fell now rather than on someone else.

I am going home.

Later