Stripping The Paint Off The Stain Glass Wall

Hello Everyone!
Just thought I would start out with a picture of Jen & I just after I about lost an eye to a broom handle.
This was the freakiest (If that is a word?) thing that has happened to me in a while.
I was cleaning up the floor with a broom and I got to close to the edge of one of the many holes in the floor and I fell through and the broom handle went up into my eye socket and split my eye lid open. Man did that hurt!! I would like to say a little something about safety in the work place but I really don't know how I could have prevented this from happening.
I am thank full that I didn't lose my eye and if you ever need to put yourself back together again super glue does wonders!!

This past weekend we decided to take a break from the demo and shoveling. Thank God because when I stopped to think about it we have shoveled and bagged about 12 tons of crap with just shovels & a wheelbarrow. At least I don't have to workout on the weekends!!
Still trying to be positive here!!
Anyways these are a couple of pictures of the floor drying out.


And another
Just a few places that are still wet in the front area.

This is about the middle of the building looking back to the back where most of the roof damage was. It is still somewhat wet in the middle and edges.



This is a picture of the stairs leading up to the office and upstairs.

We also removed the last of the carpeting around the stairs last weekend.
Then worked on removing the paneling and plaster to expose the wall.

We are going to re cover the wall with sheet rock once it all is removed from the upper section.

I also removed the paneling around the base of the window area.

I will be removing this platform in the near future.


A picture of the front of the building with all the paneling removed.

This picture is not about about me bending over, but a shameless plug for the stripper we used to remove the paint from the glass.
We ran out of the trial paint on stuff, so I sent Jen out to buy some more at Jepson's and I was like "this stuff isn't going to work". It was like a spray on remover that came with a spray bottle but no funnel to fill it. So as I tried to carefully pour it into the little opening in the sprayer I kept thinking its not going to work.

Well I was wrong again!! This stuff is awesome!
It is called Lighting Strip. You spray it on and it bubbles up the paint in seconds. The best result came after a couple of minutes of wait time. Thanks to Jepson's for the great lead on this stuff.


Here is a picture of the wall before I put some lights behind it.
We didn't get to finish the very top glass, but what we did uncover was awesome!!

There is about 80% of the original stain glass is still unbroken.

Click on the pictures to see them bigger and closer.


I can't wait to start replacing the broken ones.
This will be a very impressive showcase when you walk in and look to the back of the building.


From the front of the building.

Just Awesome!

This coming weekend we will be moving back upstairs to start tearing down the old rotten ceiling areas.

Until next weekend!!

Chris & Jen