Demo - Day 3

Another good day in Demo World. We started off by ripping out the remaining shower tiles. You know that little inset where you put soap and shampoo and stuff? Turns out those suckers pull right on out – we were expecting more of a fight.

Next step for the day was to pull out all of the green board since we are planning on replacing it with cement board. Despite the few holes we accidentally poked into the wall, the green board was not in nearly as bad of shape as our master bath. So Matt actually had to work for it! He scored around the edges with a knife so we wouldn’t accidentally pull up wall that we intended to keep. Then, (sort of) carefully, he hammered in large holes that he could fit his hand into. Once he could get a good grip, he would just tear out chunks of wall. Like Tarzan. I ran back and forth between the bathroom and the alley trash, throwing out the garbage as we went, to occupy myself.

Once the wall was stripped out, we were pleased to see that the insulation was still in good shape and didn’t need to be replaced. Same story for the wood frame – hooray!! So already this bathroom is going a lot better than the last one.

Then we brought in the most insane shop vacuum I’ve ever seen (borrowed from Matt’s step dad, Marko). He only buys top-of-the-line products for his own home remodels, and then Matt and I reap the benefits by borrowing them. Between that and my dad’s arsenal of tools, we rarely have to buy these kinds of things, cutting down on our remodel costs significantly. It pays to know tool junkies :) So we cleaned up the floor and vacuumed out the debris from the bathtub and called it a (relatively short) day.

I believe Demo Day 4 will be the last demo day for this project… then on to rebuilding…