I Have An Apprentice For Two Days!

However yesterday, I had a helper/apprentice working with me. This can be a younger man in his early 20s from my church who can be in my Wednesday evening church group. He’s a pupil on the native commerce faculty the place he’s finding out avionic electronics (I feel I bought that proper 😀 ). And whereas he’s going to high school, he’s additionally working. He talked about Wednesday evening that at his job, he was handed a caulk gun, however he had by no means used a caulk gun earlier than, so he didn’t know the way to use it. Somebody mentioned, “Effectively, it is best to have referred to as Kristi!” I jokingly mentioned, “Sure! I can maintain a seminar on caulk weapons and you may come.” He mentioned, “I ought to get your telephone quantity and are available work with you someday.”

I wasn’t certain if he was critical or not, however as I used to be leaving, he requested for my telephone quantity, after which he truly came to visit yesterday and labored with me on the storage room from 3:00pm till 8:00pm! And it was SO FUN! And what I cherished is that it was very a lot a give and take for each of us. He’s a younger, robust man, so did rather a lot (or most) of the heavy lifting and gave my drained, a lot weaker physique a break. He carried out the entire heavy contractor baggage crammed with tile and concrete board that I had faraway from the partitions. And I walked him by means of utilizing a round noticed, setting the depth gauge on the noticed, the way to begin a reduce with a round noticed in the course of a ground versus beginning on the sting of a chunk of plywood, and many others.

We bought the entire tile, concrete board, and drywall that stuffed up the bathtub bagged and eliminated, after which I confirmed him what holds a tub in place and the way to take away these issues so {that a} bathtub may be taken out. And naturally, he was extremely useful in truly getting the bathtub pulled out and brought exterior.

After which we marked and measured the place the ground joists are (or needs to be) in order that we might reduce a big sufficient gap within the ground in order that I might look beneath and see if I might decide the place the scuttle gap to the crawl house must go. I had forgotten that this lavatory truly has two subfloors in some areas, so I used to be in a position to clarify to him the distinction between how we do subfloors as we speak in bogs versus how they did subfloors in bogs again within the late 40s and early 50s.

Again then, they put the subfloor between the ground joists in bogs, with the quick subfloor boards sitting on stringers which can be nailed to the edges of the ground joists, in order that high of the subfloor and the highest fringe of the ground joists have been flush with one another. That gave them an additional 3/4″ of house for that tremendous thick mattress of mortar (or concrete) that they used to make use of to put in ground tile on lavatory flooring. Whereas as we speak, we put the plywod subfloor on high of the ground joists, after which put concrete board over the subfloor, after which set up tile with a a lot thinner layer of mortar.

So after I used to be in a position to fulfill my curiosity and look below the home to find out the place the scuttle gap wanted to go (which, sadly, is simply contained in the storage room door, so it’s going to positively be front-and-center), I lined the opening with a chunk of plywood and we bought began on the ceiling drywall. Since he needed the expertise, I let him do the toughest half and take down the part that had the tile on it that was above the bath. He had a little bit hassle with it, particularly round that vent, so he requested for my enter on the way to go about it, I gave him some pointers, and he bought it completed!

Whereas he was doing the tiled part, I used to be engaged on eradicating the remainder of the ceiling drywall. I uncovered all type of junk up there that I ought to have eliminated the primary time I did this lavatory rework. However I bear in mind being so scared about having to take away the ceiling drywall again then (I was so petrified of that attic), so I’m certain I simply needed to get the ceiling lined as shortly as attainable. This time round, I’ll take a while to take away all of this junk (very previous batt insulation, random items of plywood and wooden, previous wiring that isn’t related to something) earlier than the brand new drywall goes up.

Once we stopped working at 8:00 final evening, the room seemed like a whole mess, however we had made some nice progress.

It nonetheless has to get a little bit bit worse earlier than it begins getting higher.

The final two remaining issues that have to occur earlier than the plumber will get right here subsequent Tuesday is the concrete board and subfloor want to come back up, and the wiring for the shops, switches, and lights must be rerouted to their new areas for the storage room.

I’m hoping we will get most of that completed as we speak, after which I’ll simply want to attend for the plumber to come back on Tuesday.

As soon as the plumber is completed, the room shall be prepared for rebuild — new subfloor, new flooring, and new drywall.