Our friend Kazu from Japan has come to help us get the house ready, and then to dismantle it. Kazu is a very meticulous person, and we know he'll do an excellent job. He is here for a month, working on the Kenney Cottage.
The first step was clearing the lot. Because of all the construction (taking off the roof, lowering the house, etc), the overgrown plants have to be removed. So Kazu's first job was removing all the brush, weeds and blackberry vines. He did an incredible job - the lot is really clean.
The Kenney Cottage, with all the brush removed. Amazing that one can see through the entire lot!
The back of the house, which was covered with growth - we can finally see it.
This is the side that was covered in stucco, which I removed single-handedly back in 2014
This is Kazu, in front of the cleared lot.
Now that we can get in, the next step was dismantling the front porch. Tom and I did that today, stripping off layers of roofing, and taking the porch down. The porch columns have been saved to be put back when the house is rebuilt, but the rest of the wood on the porch was too rotten to preserve.
Tom stripping roofing off the porch (which was already falling apart)
The Kenney Cottage, porchless
On Monday, Phil Joy comes to lower the house, and on Thursday, the roofers come to strip off the old roofs. Then the dismantling of the rest of the house will begin in earnest.
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