
This morning, we picked up a jackhammer so he could make quick work of breaking up the floor. Within 45 minutes, it was broken up into small pieces that I could carry out, and he was on his way bringing the jackhammer back to the tool rental place. When he got back, I was just sweeping up, and now the bathroom is a nice, blank slate.

On the picture on the left, the existing sink plumbing will be moved to the right and higher for the other shower. At least we're leaving the toilet plumbing completely alone! You can also see in the picture to the left, the old wall heater, which was totally rusted out, but the wiring was still live. When we went to check out the breakers, we were lucky enough to see the bathroom ones labeled. So we flipped that breaker and disconnected the wiring there and another box that had been closed up. And since we were still working in the area, we just left the breaker off.
So - while we still had a rental truck, we went to the home improvement store and bought our long list of supplies; wallboard, cement board, plywood, lumber, plumbing and electrical supplies, insulation, vent fans and a window, among other things! Our goal is to keep the remodel around $2000, and we spent about half that today. We drove back up to the place to unload the truck and store everything in the garage - and none of our lights would work! We thought it was because we had put in a work order to change the electric and gas utilities over, and we ended up unloading everything in the dark. It wasn't until I went through the house getting things locked up to leave that I noticed Dale's circular saw had it's powerlight on - glowing in the middle of the dark house. Wait a minute....I flipped a few switches, and found one light that worked -- it turned out that one of the breakers we flipped had to have nearly 3/4 of the circuits on it -- whoa, we need to check into that. But we felt pretty silly stumbling around in the dark, when all we had to do was flip the breaker to get light back on!
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Looking good! Always more work than you think but at least it will look awesome when you're done!
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