Bathroom-To-Storage Room Progress (It’s Like Déjà Vu)

I’m nonetheless at work on the lavatory demolition in order that I can flip this room right into a storage room. I’m working on my own, simply me and my hammer, so it’s fairly gradual going. However I lastly bought by means of the toughest half — eradicating the tile and concrete board from the partitions across the bathtub.

As I used to be eradicating the drywall from this wall, I had really forgotten that there was as soon as a window there. In order I pulled the drywall off and noticed daylight coming by means of, it startled me for a second earlier than I noticed what I used to be uncovering. 😀

This wall is the unique again wall of the home. The sunroom that sits behind it was added on to the home at a later date by a earlier proprietor. However a view from the lavatory into the sunroom was lower than ideally suited.

So after I transformed this toilet, I eliminated the window and drywalled over it.

However the truth that this was an authentic window within the again wall of the home, which could be very undoubtedly a load-bearing wall that holds weight of your complete gutter facet of the roof on the again of the home, makes it very fascinating to see how home windows had been framed again within the late 40s and early 50s. Remember the fact that I added this 2×4 to have one thing to nail the drywall to, so this wasn’t initially there. It was fully open for the window to slot in that area.

So there was nothing within the span of that window bearing any weight on that weight-bearing wall. The place’s the weight-header? The place are the jack studs? There are none. I don’t assume this framing would move inspection right this moment in 2026. 😀 It’s been like that for nearly 80 years, and the home continues to be standing, so I’m not too involved about it. However on the very least, I’ll add some jack studs earlier than new drywall goes up. At the least it’s a reasonably slim window, so whereas it’s lower than right this moment’s requirements, not less than it’s not a large span with out help.

Nevertheless it does make me marvel what the framing across the authentic again door (which was a sliding glass door) behind the music room (between the music room and the sunroom) seems to be like. When my father-in-law and I re-drywalled that room, I knew nothing about framing, so I wouldn’t have identified if it was achieved fallacious even when I paid consideration to it. Now, 13 years later, I’ve realized a lot, and I’d know if I noticed it. I’ve a sneaking suspicion that there’s no header and no jack studs there, both. That shall be remedied as soon as the sunroom transform will get underway.

The toughest half about this demolition is that there’s no simple method to get all of these items out of the lavatory and outdoors. If that had been nonetheless an exterior window, it could be a lot simpler as a result of I may simply throw every part out the window after which bag it up outdoors.

However I’ve been right here earlier than. This appears like déjà vu to me. I’ve torn this toilet aside as soon as already, and it was a problem then as effectively. Actually, it was extra of a problem as a result of there was a lot extra tile the primary time round. Not solely had been the tub encompass and the ground coated with tile, however the partitions had been, too. And it was achieved the old fashioned manner — tile set on a really thick mortar mattress over wire. It was a tricky tear out.

This time round appears a lot simpler by comparability. At the least most of this room this time round is drywall and wooden. However my final massive tile problem shall be getting this tiled portion of the drywall off of the ceiling.

If I can do this with none severe accidents, the remainder shall be easy crusing. I’m not claiming it’s simple, however will probably be simpler. And I’d a lot reasonably be tearing out this toilet than the unique one. So it’s getting there! I believe I’ve about two extra days of demo, after which I can begin the rebuilding course of.