We just completed our project approval with the City and ended the week with the porta potty and electrical feed being brought to the site. We
also had a high fence installed around the front for security. That was the trigger to call back a lot of folks who had put deposits on windows and doors this weekend. We're just 8 days away now from the scheduled demolition.It was a very tiring day, helping the various folks get their windows out. I had never taken a bay window out but fortunately had some good tools - essentials were hammers, sledge hammer, mini sledge hammer (to break the stucco around the outer side of the windows), a heavy duty wrecking bar (straight with a chisel on one end and a pointed tip on the other, about 5 feet long solid steel, wow was this useful!), crow bar, claw bar (extremely helpful for pulling nails out from the flange that surrounds the window nailed to the outside frame), ladder, sawzall reciprocating saw with demolition blade and 2-3 other people to help ease the window down.
The best way I found to take the windows out was to just remove as many of the 2x4s the frame was attached to (whack them with the sledge hammer or wrecking bar) especially the left, right and lower side. Try to cut the nails along the top. Then push the window outward and bend any remaining nails along the top. A couple of the bay windows we removed needed 4 people to lift. Uuugh!
Well they are all gone now and it's pretty breezy inside with no doors or windows left! I'm extremely pleased that we were able to find new homes for these windows, all of which were still in pretty decent shape.
I also made some great contacts in doing this. One fellow I met, who I gave some plants to, returned to trim my pear tree and offered to help me with our landscaping design on the back end. What a find!
Wow am I ever sore tonight! I never get a workout like that at the gym.
