Followed by a few 'during' shots: (Below: Unscrewing the corrugated plastic.)
(Below: Observers.)
(Below: The window finally uncovered. We showered every day in front of that window!)
(Below: Day's end.)
The plywood had been put up temporarily to replace the asbestos that we took off right at the beginning - eighteen months earlier. It would soon come back down.
It was a joy to rip all this stuff out, I can heartily assure you. (Especially as I was the one who got to do most of the ripping, at this stage.) After agonizingly slow progress, negotiating endless obstacles, we had finally reached a stretch of open road and were determined to make the most of it while it lasted. Destruction is so much easier than construction. I'm sure that one is justified in adapting 'All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy' to 'All construction and no destruction makes Jack a burned out boy'! Normally I would object to such a saying, but in the renovation business deconstruction is part of going forward, and normally these stages are the fastest and, therefore, most stress-free. 'Forward' looks a lot like 'backward' sometimes!
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