What Lies Beneath

We've started on demolition of the breakfast nook / soon to be kitchen by taking down the cieling fan. Cieling fans in a house with short cielings and a 6'5" owner, not the best combination. Turns out the lighting in the entire first floor of the house is run off of a single 15 amp breaker. I wonder what all the rest of them do? After that we removed the toe-kick on the baseboard, ripping up one of 2 layers of vinyl. I originally thought that there were 3 layers of vinyl layed down, but now that we are in to it, it turns out that there are just 2 layers each with a 1/4 inch plywood layer underneath and stapled through to the sub floor with some 1" staples. The first layer actually came up rather easily. We just shoved a straight hoe underneath as a lever and up it comes with a very satisfying pop. The bottom layer is going to be a bit more troublesome I think.

Top Layer


Bottom Layer


As for the Dining room and Living room we have a couple of pictures of the flooring in there after we removed the carpet and pad.

Dining Room


Living Room


After we get the vinyl up in the kitchen the floor there will look like this, but I imagine even worse for wear.

This weekend Rachel's mom and dad are coming out to check out the new place, so we should get lot's accomplished with the extra help! I think we are heading to the Home and Garden show at the Overland Park convention center on Sunday as well to get some ideas.