Before we went to work on the wall, we stripped carpet and pad from the room and did some work on staples and tack-strips. The plywood "subfloor" we'd seen under the carpet in the archway to the left turned out to be just in the arch. The room has a reasonable but pretty beat up boardwood floor - painted and damaged, but still there.
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Final state of demo for the day. The outside layer on this wall (blue-grey) is wallboard, layered directly over lath-and-plaster (yellow painted), back-to-back in this wall section with another plaster wall facing away. Oddly the plaster section at the lower right in front of the chimney has a metal meshwork underlayment in parts - seems more modern? Framing has the long dimension of the 2x4s "parallel" to the wall. I haven't measured but they look like they're actually 2" by 4" studs.
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Exposed a clear space with chimney to right, steam pipe (cut off in basement), and box on the left for the builtin shelving on the other side of the wall.
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Looking up. Steam pipe runs up - not sure where to - no fixture remains? Wall "skin" around chimney (to right) is plaster.
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Looking down inside space. The wall on the chimney (top) is lath and plaster. Other walls appear to be wallboard with more modern framing style than the partition wall I broke through.
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Three closely spaced studs at the left of the gap. The front one is cut to allow the steam pipe to head down at a diagonal.
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Odd board and shimming between two of the old partition wall studs.
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Another view of the triple studs seen above, and a strap that the front one was hung from.
"LR Wall Demo Details"
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