Tearing Down the Old.

Here is before:

We brought a crow bar at Lowe's on clearance. It has been a great investment. Really made the tearing apart easy. We both enjoyed using it to take off the old parts of the wall.

Not only was the paneling nailed on it was also glued on. Which the guy at Tillet's said may be a possibility when we got our paint. I spent some time getting the large glue chunks off with a putty Knife. We thought it was interesting that the dry wall did not go the whole way down to the floor. Guess that is why most houses have trim. There was also some measurments on the walls and sometimes the ones on the bottom did not match the ones on the top half of where the paneling was. It was also spray painted black everywhere the plywood was pieced together.

Using jointing tape in the corners to touch up some places that needed touch up and to actually join places where it seems whoever had built the house had forgotten. I had a great time mudding the wall and smoothing out some of the glue and places that got torn off because of the glue. Tomorrow I will remud and texture the wall before painting.

After the first coat of "mud"

Will worked on getting the router together while I chipped glue and got the wall ready