Day 4

Yes I know there was no day 3 post... I wrapped up a little late for that.

The wallpaper is taken care of now. The water closet had two layers, but the lower layer was SOLID. I had no idea it was there, except for the little bit peaking out from behind the cabinet. So I decided to leave it there. I could tell that the loose spots were removed and smoothed out with drywall compound and I'm going to leave it alone. It just damaged the drywall too much trying to remove it where I did. Since it's stable I'll leave it alone.

The cultured marble is off the bathtub backsplash for the most part. There's no real trick to removing it in one piece. Just cut the silicone around the edges and carefully pry it off. Everything attached to the ceiling has been removed to prepare it for paint, the medicine cabinet is down, and the crown molding has been sanded. At this point about the only things remaining are the shower itself, the countertop cabinets, and tile. I'm going to try and schedule a crew to remove all tile (shower and floor) and another to take care of the shower glass and take down the giant mirror sometime early next week.

But this weekend I have some work of my own to do. I plan on painting the ceiling and baseboards, and work on preparing the walls by repairing drywall and priming. We also need to figure out the hardware we would like to use because that makes a difference whether I will need to move the towel rack or not. We also need to figure out whether we would like to install a hand towel holder near the sink and another towel holder by the shower. I'm also ordering a new vent fan for the water closet because the one in there is loud and damaged from someone putting in a light bulb that was too bright for the fixture.

Anyway here are the pictures of what everything looks like today. It doesn't look like a lot but it took a lot of work to get here.



So far no real surprises. Nothing interesting hidden in the walls. Nothing written on the back of anything, except for the name of the builder and the order number for the cultured marble. No bad surprises either. You can see under the countertop in the next picture that there's a hole in the sheetrock. There's a good reason for that and I'll post more about it later.