Soooo, over Thanksgiving weekend I was busy ripping up all the ceramic tile in the entryway, hallway, kitchen and laundry room (Jason had school projects to work on). It wasn't extremely hard- just time consuming and labor intensive. I was pretty sore for a few days :-( The only problem was the fact that some of the tile would come up and leave the thinset behind on the concrete. After attempting to chisel it off with no success, we rented a heavy duty machine that has a wide blade on it intended to get underneath the thinset. This was waaaayyyyy hard too and took Jason a good 4 hours. All the thinset is not removed and we will have to figure something out so that the floor is level before we lay the new tile.
While Jason was busy grinding away on the thinset, I removed the rest of the kitchen cabinets and the drywall between the kitchen and the den (pictures below).
This picture shows how much thinset was left behind!(Entryway)
More thinset!!!
Here is the kitchen with all of the cabinets taken out (except the sink one)
Here is another view of the kitchen
Drywall taken off! Now you can start to see the "open concept" plan. You can also see the difference after Jason used the machine to get up the thinset. It's looking a little better!
We plan on taking the framing down soon
