90 percent gutted!
A very eventfull day at home. I managed to scare off the electrician by giving him a headache. We have a new hole in the kitchen and by the end of the day Melissa and the boys were ready for me to stop working on the bathroom for a while.
If you didn't guess what was going on the cast-iron soil stack is out and there is now a clean run for the plumber to put the new soil stack in the proper place (rather than the stair well). At day break I was still uncertin how I was going to remove the stack. There were the obvious two options smash the stack or try and use the recip. saw to cut it out. After a cup of coffee I decided to smash the stack. So Matthew and I went to Lowes early this morning to get some needed mini sledge hammers for the task.
The pounding started at roughly 8:20 this morning. That went on for about two and a half hours with some luck. I was able to get about three feet out. Mom and Dad Kirsch showed up shortly after that and Dad was a great help. He actually got our the first very large section out shortly after his arival. :-) I ended up needing to take more of the small powder room apart to get into the stack space, as well as one section of drywall from the kitchen.
My main consoling factor in the continued destruction is the fact that destruction phaze is almost complete. And a steam shower!