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 concentrate on this room and get some demolition carried out. And my essential aim was to get began on eradicating the tile across the bathtub and take away the brief wall that beforehand separated the tub 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 over lots 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 lots of trim and a few of the plywood from the ceiling to get it carried out. After which it took lots of persistence to get all the tile off of that wall in order that I may take away the concrete board from the wall framing, however I bought it carried out. And simply check out how a lot it opened up this house!

I used to be actually hoping that I may get the tub out as effectively, however I didn’t fairly get that far. The tub has a lip across the prime that matches beneath the tile, so I nonetheless have a bit of little bit of tile that has to return off earlier than I can get the bathtub out. As soon as I get that backside row of tiles off of the primary wall, I’m fairly certain it’s just some screws and two drains holding that bath in place. This room goes to look a lot larger as soon as that bath 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 realm across the tub which have concrete board as a substitute of drywall), and do a complete lot of mudding and sanding.

I hate doing drywall in any type, 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 can be a lot simpler had I not used development adhesive on every thing! 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 connected to my partitions with out development adhesive. I’ve realized 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 choices earlier than I swore off development adhesive.

And as you possibly can see under, it’s not simply the partitions. I used development adhesive to connect each single strip of plywood to the ceiling as effectively. Discuss overkill. So both means, I’ve a drywall drawback on my fingers. 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 connected to drywall and never concrete board as a result of, if I bear in mind appropriately (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 have been tiled.

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

The ground house on this wall must be left open for Matt’s tools 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 really determined to not put any storage on the tub 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 tub wall open. That’s the plan for now. If I discover that I want extra storage down the street, I can all the time come again and add higher cupboards to the tub wall. Or I could discover that I need specialty storage for that space that doesn’t require cupboards however requires one thing like hooks on the wall as a substitute. I’m unsure at this level, however I can add and customise as wanted. It doesn’t should be carried out suddenly proper now.

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

I’ve additionally determined to take away the tile flooring and put down hardwood flooring. I occur to have three containers of hardwood flooring left over from after we had new flooring put in within the bed room suite, so I gained’t even should spend more cash on new flooring. And that means, it’ll be in line with the remainder of the bed room suite. So the demolition may even embrace 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 underneath the bathtub space the place there isn’t any tile. Second, this room is the place the scuttle gap will probably be to entry the crawl house underneath the home. Reducing a scuttle gap appears a lot simpler to do (and to have it look good) in a hardwood flooring than it does in a tile flooring. And if I can get the tile and concrete board off with out damaging the plywood subfloor, the subfloor items might be eliminated in order that the plumber can have easy accessibility entire rerouting the plumbing for my sink, after which the plywood might be reattached earlier than I set up the brand new flooring. Throughout, going with wooden as a substitute of tile appeared like a greater thought to me.