Today we moved the rest of the junk out of the attic room closets so
we can start tearing it out. The amount of junk we had up there is a
little embarrassing, so I'm omitting the picture.
Here's one last look at the lovely room, including some of the
brilliant wiring in one of the closets.
Some ant remains. There didn't seem to be any activity, so I guess my
cutting holes in the paneling and spraying helped.
In a few hours, we had quite a bit of the paneling down, and had
removed the headboard thing.
The closet on the north side of the room was next.
After another day of demo, we had most of the paneling down, broken up
and in the garage.
The vanity was obviously a later addition as the paneling runs behing
the knee wall here.
This nice splice was left hanging out of the box and innaccessible
behind the sink in the attic room.
Progress.
We found a little more evidence of ant activity in the short wall at
the landing of the stairs leading up to the attic room.
We found this nifty splice in the wall. I think it may have been live
when we bought the house, but that I disconnected it when we rewired
the room over the garage.
We found another splice in the wall, and the wires are still live. We
probably won't be able to fix this until we tear out the master
bedroom. I'm guessing the BX used to go to a switch for the overhead
light in the bedroom that was converted to the master bath and closet.
The dumpster is mostly full.
Here you can see some of the damage we will have to deal with. The
first two pictures show some split rafters and the third shows damage
to the header that spans the cricket. Note that the header is just a
single 2x6 and that the rafters on either side of it are not doubled
either. It could have been framed a little better. The two spit
rafters are also adjacent to one another, and one of them was most
likely split because some genius notched it for some wiring. Well, by
now I've come to expect this kind of thing.
