Yesterday's Progress on the Master Bathroom
As promised, we dove in on the master bathroom work today. We definitely had mixed emotions about seeing the plaster go, but the combination of the cracking, the years of unventilated moisture and the hodge-podge of work done on the room over time meant it was definitely in the worst condition of any room in the house.
The great news was that some great friends helped us out so things went quickly. J (who has worked on old houses like ours countless times) took the lead on the tearout work.
A and C did a rockin' job with the heavy labor of boxing up the plaster and lathe and taking it out of the house.
In case you're wondering, yes JM and I did our fair share too. However, we were the ones behind the camera so you'll have to take our word for it!
With all that great help, we actually made pretty quick work of things. By early afternoon we were down to the studs and the room was broom clean. Check it out:
It felt really good to actually get so much work done...our progress makes it seem much more real that we'll have a nice master bathroom some day!
(Note: We just wanted to take a second and acknowledge all the helpful suggestions we got last week when we did similar work on the ceiling downstairs. We definitely value and discuss all the ideas we get, even though we sometimes do our own thing. For example, in one case we got an excellent time-saving suggestion from Gary to leave on the lathe as backing for the new drywall. In our situation we decided that removing it here makes sense, because we expect to do some infrastructure work and also want to roll insulation. However, every suggestion has its merits in the right situation so keep the feedback coming!)
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