Plan C

Our first idea with redoing this house was to bulldoze it and start from scratch. Then preliminary inspections found the structural integrity of the home to be adequate so we moved to Plan B - to gut the interior, tear down the addition on the back of the house, and add a two story addition on the back. Last night we met with a mold remediation expert who told us the wooden structure of the home had too much mold damage to deal with cost effectively. So, we're back to tearing it down completely but we're not quite back to Plan A. Our thought at this point it to try to save the basement to build on as this would significantly reduce foundation work required to build the home. That means we'll tear the house down manually - one brick and piece of lumber at a time.