Steve- Here is what I am going to recommend. To get to any page, you are going to need to open your browser, so I am just suggesting that, each time you have a page you want to get back to, you bookmark it within the browser rather than creating a link that may or may not work on your Desktop. You can create special folders very easily in any browser to keep it organized to your liking. Also, if you want to sort the bookmarks, you can arrange and alphabetize things as you add to the list(s). By having the links in the browser, it will be much faster than returning to your Desktop each time you want to go to a site, and you will be sure you will have a workable link this way. Once you do this, you can get rid of all those disordered icons on the Desktop. Does this make sense? What browser are you using? And do you need any help setting up bookmark folders?

I haven't seen that Sue. It sounds like maybe they're requesting that you disable Adblock Plus and they're showing you how? That would be one way to handle it I suppose. Disable it on photobucket.com only and if you don't get inundated with offensive ads, leave it that way. There's an Adblock Warning Removal List on this page but when I briefly tried it, it seemed to miss the message pictured above. I love Element Hiding Helper for Adblock Plus. It makes it so easy to add a custom rule when the main filter subscription (such as Easylist) misses something. I've been using uBlock Origin. I like it a lot. It has an built-in eye dropper tool that helps you do a custom block. The eye dropper tool seems to do an adequate job but I kinda like the Element Hiding Helper for Adblock Plus better. I think it makes it easier to (using the shortcut keys) narrow and widen my selection until I get it just right. So, although I use uBlock Origin to block ads, I keep Adblock Plus around (disabled) just so I can use the Element Hiding Helper.

It's impossible to tell what walls are structural support from a photo of an interior room. Until you actually go into the attic and look, this is just speculation. There are no two homes alike, this house looks like (if I had to guess) built in the 70's or early 80's. When it comes to structural support, if the wall is a structural support doesn't necessarily mean you can't do what you intend to do... just means there is more work needed to do it.... off load the roof support to a new support, before old support is removed. (if you do it wrong, roof collapse is the risk.) What is required to do this will vary, depending largely on how roof supports are placed in the attic currently. If the roof collapses thru the ceiling because support was removed is primarily the worse violation of structural changes to a structure. In some cases you may need support columns placed, which tends to do less as imagined to having a 'open' room.

You had a CMU wall. Sometimes, you want to fill a cell on the top course of CMU to say hold an anchor that is just for the cap on a wall. So instead of having the grout fill fall all the way down the wall inside cells that meet up vertically, contractors will stick whatever they can find to stop the grout from falling, so it only fills the top course cell. Now if there was rebar in a cell that had to be grout filled, that is a different story. But I only see maybe 2 courses of CMU, and you are removing it all anyway, so I don't think there is anything to worry about with the other contractor.