An Opening
...plastic sheeting. Put construction debris in plastic bags (the big orange store sells extra thick garbage bags for this purpose). Vacuum like there’s no tomorrow. Here’s what it looked like before (note the cracked drywall sheets that, I discovered, were barely attached to the studs): During: And after: I don’t have a picture, but I removed the studs after confirming that the old header was adequate (it’s not a load bearing wall). The next step w...