The kitchen comes out first. The wall cabinets come out pretty nicely and are stacked in the garage for recycling. The base cabinets and appliances are also pretty easy. The dishwasher was tough because the tile had been installed after the dishwasher was installed. Even with the legs down, the dishwasher rubbed on its way over the tile lip. Finally some proper force on the counter top got the dishwasher free. The oven door had to be removed to unscrew the oven and pull it out. The wall cabinet required some force to be removed, but in just a few hours the kitchen was bare walls.
Next, I removed to the tile. I was dreading this part. The kitchen and adjoined breakfast nook was all tiled. I expected this part to take some effort to get all that tile up. To make the job easier, I broke some of tiles to pieces (cover the tiles with a towel and hit with sledge hammer). Then floor scrapper took up the pieces easily. In fact, it was super easy. After about 10 minutes there was a huge pile of tile. Shoveling it into the wheel barrow was more work than the scrapping. Many of the tiles came up whole. If the tile was not so ugly I could have reused it. The previous installers had not bothered to clean the floor, so the adhesive only stuck to the floor on maybe 3 tiles in both rooms. Thank goodness for crappy workmanship.
Up next, down with the walls...
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