Fireplace

This is the base of the fireplace. We dug a big hole, poured concrete, laid rebar and blocks. We were working with a unique situation here. That one piece of wood sticking out from the blocks was actually holding up the chimney. Why there was a chimney, but no lower part, we don't know. So, we started at the bottom and worked our way up to join the rest of it. You can see this in some other pictures.

A Long Way to Go

Skeleton

These two pics should give you a pretty good idea of what kind of environment we've been working in for the past several months. It looks a lot better than this now, but this is the way it looked for a while after we demoed.

New Floor Joists

Our Second Home: The Depot