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Second Floor Plans and Door Casing Demolition

Bob goes over plans for the second floor with Greg Rochlin and then joins Ryley as he undertakes the meticulous demolition of a nineteenth century door casing and disassembly of the stairway banister and balusters for refinishing.
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Second Floor Plans and Door Casing Demolition

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" Let's check in with -- with Greg again so we can talk about changes to the floor plan here. Some added -- but I had to -- here to bring each bedroom and then we're producing large master bedroom suite moving this wall. Facts and not have bedroom that's almost sixteen feet wide and then to his and hers that's here and then right here in the hall. Then take this little closet in large it. Turning into an upstairs London also have a small lobsters wander -- with a stacked washer dryer strikes and you're in the process on the drain on -- marketing miles south of establishing -- so. What color that this is -- through walls."

" So read it means they remove all -- us. OK and you've got to do that on the inside look at the inside willow also come that's -- OK well why you're doing that meticulous Ryley on the appropriately taking apart these casings. They're kind of complicated our fifth that was really an interesting way to put these doors together and the of his I'll be applied trim right here. When he did it was a insolvent GM's. First Enron stock. And then they applied the trim after it was the first piece they put on him and -- to have hundreds style and stuff like that casing. And they -- This trim here. And today and put overlap that. So it's pretty elaborate right in an area a stop. On the inside and Nokia. Looks like goes like that and I saw half inch stock -- that GM and in the stock went over that put. But to peace jam on him. Yeah and it's pretty complicated way of doing it but you got to remember it's 1890 -- I'm very well trained carpenter probably made a dollar today. And bitter cost of dressed lumber was pretty high. So this gets taken apart basically the same as you shows downstairs earlier tonight did exactly understand what you are doing is that first -- you want to take up his the last piece they put on an in his back you're right back into right back out like getting undressed and but use that knife to score away all the paint before you try to. You churches exactly let's talk about something it's a little more difficult OK how do you approach taking apart the staircase. And this morning here we're party yet taken power -- and pride in what we've found is it's bolted together and either end and also -- me. So we're gonna do is. Just get these newel post away from the rail enough to get a metal cutting blade and now we're going to cut. -- cut the nails and bolts out and then what happens satin pencil and I you can actually do that you actually have separate -- movement right it's a good thing KF with a -- takes -- protect that Award. Have been here for so long. And not to separate. Pretty easily. That should be enough right there. We'll get displayed handful."

" Had a way."

" And made -- the job -- an -- yeah. The same thing. And seeing people and that right yes I notice and it's got it. Well you need is about a sixteenth of an inch gap."

" Things and of course most of the staircase is made out of poplar. Which was not and it still is not an expensive would -- bullet meant to be painted that's right yes there."

" So they're more distant down the floor. Right it's right to drill the hole in this that should be a dowel that it. There you go yeah. That's the climb -- the bottom is -- not like that right into the floor and then it was toenail. And the top. Just square but if you look at. How they fit in. You'll understand that all of this was done by hand first they drilled a hole in the squared it off so they could -- and it. Today would be done differently today they plowed the whole bottom of the rail and then fit in all the balusters on spindles and -- little blocks in between."

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