01/15/11 - Dagger bought a house in dire need of renovation, so we lend a hand!

Knowing I was going to be tearing insulation out of the wall, I decided to come prepared

Yikes, this house is certainly in need of help

Dagger was excited to have us there

The uh.. stairs

Nice ceiling

It actually got much much worse than this as we pushed insulation down from upstairs, but I wouldn't take my camera out at that point

We had to work upstairs first because there was no lighting up there, so we work with the sun!

Pile of debris

You don't want to be breathing this stuff..

We think it's mostly shredded newspaper, but maybe with some fiberglass too

Dagger hard at work

Reibello joined us! It was fun to work with him outside of Minecraft

Swing that hammer!

Removing the larger pieces of debris

We had to get the sticks out before we could shovel the insulation. Otherwise it made a kind of composite polymer that was impossible to break up

Take that, slats!

Ben tears through the wall with an axe.. but with good reason!

Ripping off slats by hand

Ben looks upstairs

As you can tell by Reibello's breath here, it was pretty cold inside

The view from the foyer, which was pretty much intact

Nerds at work

Topaz had to keep the mask under his nose or his glasses fogged up

Ben continues to work on his wall

I thought this respirator would be ridiculous overkill, but I'm glad I brought it!

Deciding what to work on next..

Munchkins! Eat them before they all get coated in insulation!

The only heat source in the house, a crazy kerosene.. jet.. engine.. thing. It belched fire at random times

Topaz is ready to rock

Look at the breath!

We filled well over a dozen of those giant garbage bags

Even dagger eventually put on a mask

Ben carefully navigates the second floor

Rachie works on removing some insulation

Walking around up here was pretty scary. You had to check your footing with every step

I wouldn't advise walking near the hole

Various debris removed from upstairs

Hard at work removing the crusty old insulation

All these giant piles of it were eventually pushed down through the hole, making a giant mess

The hatchet worked really well here

Rachie continues dismantling the wall

Dagger collected the larger pieces

Rachie's glove slipped off, and her hammer along with it! Poor Dagger got a faceful of hammer, but got off pretty light

I decided the respirator wasn't enough and got some safety goggles as well

Reibello looks over the menu for a well deserved post-cleanup meal

I caught Chris off guard

Topaz got some of that Scotch Ale he loves so much. He was bummed I wasn't a fan

Closeup of the bubbles

Waiting for our food to arrive

The wide angle adapater catches Topaz's stupid face

Dagger's feeling better with some progress made on the house and a bandaid on her head

The adapter is also useful for artsy pictures like this!