Our kitchen project is now in full swing. The wall between the old kitchen and dining room is down and we can see the space that the new kitchen will inhabit. The floor is gone down to the subfloor.
Of course, in a 70 year old house, there are bound to be some surprises and our biggest so far (unfortunately, the mice weren't actually a surprise) is that there was no insulation at all in our walls. I thought that maybe it was just because it was thought that the kitchen would always be warm, but there was no insulation in the dining room wall at all either.
The contractor thought that the best approach would be to take down the old walls and add insulation before building them back up. So that's what we're doing. We realize now that it is likely that none of the walls in our house have insulation. Brick and concrete are themselves fairly good insulators, but we may want to add some more insulation. But not now. That will definitely be a project for another day. Right now, it's all about the kitchen.
It's going to be HUGE!...Can't wait to see it when finished, keep us updated!
Posted by: eva | November 08, 2011 at 03:07 PM
AMAZING!!
Posted by: chronicles of momnia | November 09, 2011 at 07:50 PM
Yup, our house, built about the same time (but not in MAINE!) was from the "old days" when fuel was cheap and who cares about insulation. Every time another wall comes down, we stuff a little insulation in.
Posted by: Andrea | November 09, 2011 at 09:40 PM
Don't know why I said Maine...and in all caps, no less!
Posted by: Andrea | November 09, 2011 at 09:41 PM
Well, we've got mice and no insulation either. No judgments. :)
Posted by: Anna | November 10, 2011 at 10:23 AM