When we bought they house the first thing we decided to do while we designed the renovation was to remove the wall in the bedroom area’s that created two rather small bedrooms.

While in the longer term this new room will be removed altogether for now we want to create a temporary bedroom of a decent size and there was only one way to do this and that was “big hammer” approach.

The wall itself was very soft and lightweight bricks really only held together by the wallpaper. The frame of the wall was wood and then what can only be best described as “thick tiles” made up the wall, this isn’t going to take long at all…

So we started:

Two grown men with a lump hammer and a club hammer and away we went.

At this point the wall was coming down well. My only concern was that I realised that I was dressed the same as my Dad! Here’s some free advice “Never ever dance or dress like your Dad”, especially when you’re only 34. Anyway back to the hammering but before that a quick picture of “men at work” :

And then it was done.

By taking down the wall it opened up the room from being 2 roof of 10ftx6ft to a 10ftx12ft room, which for us is a far more manageable size.

Interestingly enough the tiled floor you can see above only goes into one room and the other was just carpet on top of cardboard, this suits us fine as we’ll be removing the tiles in the first room for use elsewhere.

The last job that we have to do in this room is remove the wooden cladding on the ceiling and then this room is ready for “proper” renovation.