Bathroom-To-Storage Room Demolition Progress – Addicted 2 Decorating®

It’s trying like this week is again to my regular schedule, so yesterday, I had fairly a little bit of time to give attention to this room and get some demolition finished. And my major objective was to get began on eradicating the tile across the bathtub and take away the quick wall that beforehand separated the bath space from the cupboard/shelf space on this wall.

I had beforehand eliminated the cupboard and cabinets within the nook, however that wall was nonetheless taking on a variety of visible house.

So I used to be anxious to see simply how a lot eradicating that wall would open up the house visually. I needed to take away a variety of trim and a number of the plywood from the ceiling to get it finished. After which it took a variety of endurance to get all the tile off of that wall in order that I might take away the concrete board from the wall framing, however I acquired it finished. And simply check out how a lot it opened up this house!

I used to be actually hoping that I might get the bath out as properly, however I didn’t fairly get that far. The bath has a lip across the prime that matches beneath the tile, so I nonetheless have somewhat little bit of tile that has to come back off earlier than I can get the bathtub out. As soon as I get that backside row of tiles off of the principle wall, I’m fairly certain it’s just some screws and two drains holding that bathtub in place. This room goes to look a lot larger as soon as that bathtub is out of right here.

As I used to be working yesterday, I used to be weighing my choices for the drywall. I can both take all of this drywall down and set up all new, or I can attempt to salvage this drywall, fill in the place there gained’t be any drywall (i.e., the world across the tub which have concrete board as an alternative of drywall), and do a complete lot of mudding and sanding.

I hate doing drywall in any kind, whether or not it’s putting in new drywall or patching previous drywall, so each of these choices sound equally horrible to me. 😀 This entire course of could be a lot simpler had I not used development adhesive on all the pieces! However as I’ve talked about earlier than, I used to make use of development adhesive on each single piece of trim I put in. Again then, not a single piece of trim was ever hooked up to my partitions with out development adhesive. I’ve discovered my lesson since then, and I haven’t used development adhesive to put in trim in a number of years. However I’m nonetheless paying the value for my selections earlier than I swore off development adhesive.

And as you may see under, it’s not simply the partitions. I used development adhesive to connect each single strip of plywood to the ceiling as properly. Discuss overkill. So both means, I’ve a drywall downside on my arms. And as soon as I begin chipping off that tile above the bathtub space, it’s going to get even worse. I’m fairly certain that ceiling tile is hooked up to drywall and never concrete board as a result of, if I bear in mind accurately (which is questionable as a result of it was a really very long time in the past), I hadn’t initially supposed to tile the ceiling within the tub space. I believe that was one thing I made a decision to do after the partitions had been tiled.

However anyway, it’s coming alongside. I noticed that in yesterday’s publish, I didn’t even tackle storage on this wall. I solely mentioned the storage on the alternative wall the place the vainness was once.

The ground house on this wall must be left open for Matt’s gear and the sink that I purchased for the nook simply contained in the door, however I had deliberate on constructing storage to on the highest portion of the wall.

I’ve truly determined to not put any storage on the bath wall proper now. I’ll have loads of storage on the vainness wall for now, and I’ll see how that goes. I could discover that the IKEA Pax wardrobes present all the storage space that I want in right here, so I can hold the bath wall open. That’s the plan for now. If I discover that I want extra storage down the street, I can at all times come again and add higher cupboards to the bath wall. Or I could discover that I would like specialty storage for that space that doesn’t require cupboards however requires one thing like hooks on the wall as an alternative. I’m unsure at this level, however I can add and customise as wanted. It doesn’t must be finished abruptly proper now.

So immediately, I’ll proceed on with the demolition and see simply how far I can get.

I’ve additionally determined to take away the tile ground and put down hardwood flooring. I occur to have three containers of hardwood flooring left over from once we had new flooring put in within the bed room suite, so I gained’t even must spend extra money on new flooring. And that means, it’ll be in keeping with the remainder of the bed room suite. So the demolition may even embody eradicating the tile and the concrete board from the ground. I’m actually hoping I can get that off with out damaging the plywood subfloor beneath!

There are two causes I made a decision to go that course. First, it simply appeared simpler than looking for a tile to fill in below the bathtub space the place there isn’t a tile. Second, this room is the place the scuttle gap can be to entry the crawl house below the home. Slicing a scuttle gap appears a lot simpler to do (and to have it look good) in a hardwood ground than it does in a tile ground. And if I can get the tile and concrete board off with out damaging the plywood subfloor, the subfloor items may be eliminated in order that the plumber can have easy accessibility entire rerouting the plumbing for my sink, after which the plywood may be reattached earlier than I set up the brand new flooring. Throughout, going with wooden as an alternative of tile appeared like a greater thought to me.