This top photo shows the state of the CBTB kitchen right now at the end of Day 3. How did the kitchen look when it all began on Monday morning? Here's Day 1 photo of the kitchen we loved for 10 years.
And here's a photo later from Day 1 as the workmen demolished the kitchen.
Why no photo from Day 2? We were a little busy actually. Our neighbors one floor above us are completing a year of rebuidling their two-story loft. They stripped it down to the brick walls from 1864 and began from scratch. They were just putting up sheet rock on Monday, our Day 1. And then someone put a sheet rock nail through a water pipe and … Water accumulated, we saw drips and then a our soggy kitchen ceiling collapsed. So, we don't have pictures from Day 2 because there was water and mess and chaos everywhere.
Were we upset? No. We became religious. There has to be a God. If that water leak had occurred three weeks later, after our current construction was finished, then, then we would have been rather upset. The timing of this leak, and the ceiling collapse, was perfect. We are just glad the workers upstairs found the offending nail. I understand the offending nailer is no longer on the job there. Probably a wise move.
We hadn't planned on putting in a new ceiling. We are.