Here's what it looks like today (after some furniture has been put back) - the arch is completely gone,
and lots more wallpaper is off, as well as some of the skirting board.
And all the paper, etc from the ceiling has gone. The architrave is apparently covered with all kinds of paint, but it's steaming off well, or so my builder tells me (it's plaster architrave, not wood moulding, so we want to keep it).
Here's where the "decorative" arch no longer is, from the dining room side. The rooms look much bigger without it. And the good news is, there is a steel beam there in the part of the wall which was the original house wall; the other wall (of the extension) doesn't have one, but it's ok. It wouldn't pass building specs if it were being built today, but it's stable and apparently it's not a load-bearing wall, so it's safe and it doesn't need to have one retro-fitted. This will make things quicker and cheaper, so that was nice to find out.
This is a bit of floor, where some of the old parquet has been removed - in one place, there was nothing under the parquet except a bit of cardboard, hence the emergency pseudo floorboard. Wonder what other joys we will find as we deconstruct?
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You are lucky that nothing very heavy sat on the part of the floor that had the piece of cardboard as backing. I wouldn't have thought the parque floor would hold much weight by itself.
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