Last ceiling to remove

Before dealing will all the stuff over the stairs, I built a temporary platform out of OSB so it would be easy and safer to work over there

Here it is after it was all removed

So based off of everything I've seen it seems for the 2nd floor, the only original part is from the front room, back to the wall between the master bedroom and bathroom, and only as wide as the front room.  It also explains why there is that one load baring stud that didn't seem like it should be.  More on all of this later, here's an inside roof with shingles still on it

Front room ceiling gone

Another day and another ceiling to pull down, here's how much re-usable cellulose I got out of the front room

After cleaning up

Here's how much reusable insulation I have so far

And the trash stuff, plus the door from the inside

More ceiling removal

Now I'm removing the next section of ceiling, stopping where the lath does.  In the rest of the house, it is just a layer of decomposing wool with the cellulose right on top of it, so I'm not able to save as much of the cellulose like I could in the master bedroom.  But I'm just bagging everything this time.

Time to rearrange everything so I can do more of the ceiling later

And at some point in all of that, a bat scared me and I stepped through the small hole in the floor where the plumbing for the bathtub was, so I made a nice mess downstairs

Nice way of fixing it after cleaning it up

Lighting the basement

I finally got around to doing temporary lights for the basement.  None of the lights were on switches and it was pretty dark down there, so I used more cat5e and sockets to put in 6 bulbs around the basement, running off the switch at the top of the stairs.

Removing bathroom ceiling

My Dad went back to Idaho, so I'm back to doing things on my own again.  Now I'm removing the rest of the ceilings upstairs, and the bathroom was first.