Any time I see ceiling tiles, I know the plaster is fawked, and I was not suprised to see this:
Firring strips were only thing holding it up in spots.
Sooo.... Removed it, and 10 cubic yards of rockwool.
Rewired the entire original part of the house. No more Knob and Tube. All 12-ga Romex.
Demoed all that crap in the master too.
New 5/8" Rock hung in the orig part of the house. Put in R30 fiberglass insulation while I had the ceilings opened up.
When they closed in the windows on the W. side, they didn't do it properly, so I had to open one back up and start from scratch:
Going to brick it in and restucco.
Took opportunity to add 3 new outlets to each room. (only had 1 outlet per bedroom originally)
Could you tell there was a window there?
Demoed out that hideous bath and the jetted tub.
That's right, tile, over tile, over mortar, over plaster, over brick.
That took a while
Lovely 2" galvanized and cast iron(failed) vent stack, which needed to be replaced (along with 6' of the 4" Cast iron under the house)
Goodbye 1980s kitchen.
And a few days ago before I put up the 5/8" sheetrock.
About half of the original oak pulled up in the kitchen to be used to patch termite damage in the living and front bedrooms. 3/4" T&G sub going across the entire area, and 5/8" Oak going on top of that.