Asbestos Removal for Dummies

Some resources:

• Safe Work Practices for Handling Asbestos
• Alberta Asbestos Abatement Manual 

However, homeowners, it seems, are free to help themselves to as much rope as they like, and to hang themselves with it...

I blocked off the hallway under the crawl space with nice thick poly.

Don't piss around!!  I was warned off of those $50 P100 masks, told I wouldn't get enough air without a motor forcing clean air through the filter for me...

I'm wearing my birthday suit underneath!! The Tyvek coveralls are single-use.  On day one, I tore the crotch just before heading into the attic.  I fixed it with duct tape and only caught a few hairs....

Dishwasher plumbing

Never mind, I figured it out...

The Sorry State of the Bathtub

Man, what are we going to do about this?  There was a rubber mat over it when we first saw the house.  Our options:

• buy another rubber mat
• scrub it as best we can and touch up the rust spots
• gut the bathroom

The beginning of the end of the fireplace

Yes, the fireplace's days are numbered!  It turns out to be completely unusable (or at least uninsurable) in its current form. Here is the ceremonial removal of the first brick.

아쉽지만 이쁜 chimney도 뺄 수 밖에 없어요...

Kitchen Cabinet Teardown

Now you see em...

...now you don't!! Stay tuned!

Kitchen Cabinet Delivery Mission

The girl at the Tsawwassen ticket booth said, "Got any hazardous goods back there, uh.... is that IKEA?"

Laundry Floor Removal

Not much is going to change here.  We've done the one window already; we're just looking to drywall the ceiling and tile the floor.

Decades of greywater piss-stains, left here by the washing machine, elsewhere by the dishwasher and hot water tank.

Some appliances that will have to see a couple more years of service, huddling together for comfort while we redo the floor and cabinets around them.