Demo reveal: Small town, small world

Mike showed up at 8 this morning followed by Dave who will be taking care of the guest house renovation. Turns out Dave has a daughter in CSUMB's "CSIT in 3" program which means she will be taking her Ethics and Current Issues in Information Technology course from Kevin in a semester or two. Small world. In a paragraph or two, it's going to get even smaller.

After about an hour of Mike walking Dave through the project, Mike left and Dave immediately got to work. The sound of a sawzall never sounded so good.

When Kevin checked in on the progress a few hours later, Dave asked if he knew when the guest house was built. We don't know because we've never found any plans but always assumed it was built shortly after the other buildings because the window treatments are the same and the bathroom tiles are very similar to the main house.

Dave's guess is the structure was probably built as late as the 70s. He says the wood used for framing it is a combination of woods that look like they were left overs from other projects, some of them weren't used in the 50s or early 60s.

When Kevin mentioned that earlier, somewhat hushed and never confirmed stories about the property suggested the guest house may have actually been the Tombleson son's bedroom (George Tombleson's original plans for the 2-bedroom main house have hand written labels identifying the master bedroom and the "Girls' bedroom"), Dave revealed that he went to Hartnell College and was in the same carpentry apprentice course with Tim Tombleson. Small world getting even smaller! So now we know there was a son and we can add one more person working on the project with ties to the Tomblesons. It also turns out that Dave worked for John Laughton before he joined the Tombleson guys. It's a small world after all.

Today we also ordered and paid for the decking and guest house wall paneling. The decking will ship right away but it's going to take at least 8 weeks for the coconut deco panels.

Tomorrow the dumpster arrives and the process of removing the roof begins. Sure not going to miss the acoustic tile ceiling…. And the tile contractor is coming, too!