We decided to start with our shower first. We only have one shower in the house, so we figured it would be best to handle that start-to-finish to minimize the time we have to shower at relatives' houses.
So here we go. The photo on the left is what we started with. Hideous, yes? On a Friday evening after work about a month ago, T took the crowbar to the tile.
In just an hour, he'd made great progress on two of the walls. The crowbar was taking too long, so he started hacking at things with an axe... things moved a little faster from there!
Less than 48 hours after starting demo, our buddy Jim (who is a master plumber) was over to move some pipes around and get the new fixtures setup.
The following weekend, most of the Wonderboard went up and the seams were mudded. This process spanned two weekends because we didn't buy enough on Home Depot trip #8, so we had to make trip #9 before finishing.
T painted Redguard on the walls this past weekend, and I haven't been in to snap a pic yet. It's horrible looking though, and smells so. bad. Just so bad.
When T was in the demo phase, which was very loud, I made sure to take E out for the day. Once he moved on to Wonderboarding though, we hung out at home mostly. This is how she spent the vast majority of that time - standing at the baby gate, trying to catch a glimpse of what Dada was doing.
A finally, I'll close with this -
This is what was under one end of the towel bar after T knocked it off the wall. Seriously? I think there are at least eight nails poking out of that. Previous owners: construction mavens? Methinks not.
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