Kitchen

The vent leak has completly destroyed the 2* 4 that run's behind the counter. I mean its not that the wood is wet, its not like its soft, most of it has turned to saw dust. It's just gone.

I have now desided to gut the entire interior.

I have at least 1/3 of it that needs demolition to repair water damage. My wife wanted to change the layout. May as well get at it.

At this point some people may ask why?

Simple answer, I am handy. Material costs are actually very low, its just extremly time consuming to do. The construction is the older, tin foam and a bit of wood preasure glued together.

This is tough to rework so the new wall.s are proper studed with the foam still in place but with the plywood interior walls. It means I have to strip the paneling off.

And strip out a good portion of the foam.

I am lucky the local lumber store had a sale so the Plywood, and Framing for the project has come out to under $200.00 The foam added another $90 to the project. But I bet I have 70-80 man hours of work already in.