Welcome to 2016!

January, it'll be easy, she said...

It's a brand new year so let's get it started right by finishing as much of this project as possible before the baby shows up! At this point it's beyond clear that it will NOT be done by then but maybe we'll have something... functional?

What goes on in the bedroom gets posted online?!

At this point as much as can be done in the bedroom has already happened. Subfloor is done up to the beam under the floor so that's kind of that for now.

Life pro tip: If you keep a compressor in the bedroom, or anywhere indoors during a project, either unplug it or turn the switch off so it won't kick in at midnight when enough air bleeds out for it to need to fill up again. It's not a fun way to wake up, especially when it's 5 feet away from the bed.

Wrecking out the bathroom

I REALLY hated this bathroom the entire time we've lived here, but I also wanted to wait as long as possible to start demo because the thing is kind of useful. The closet and hall to the half bath areas were the easiest areas to start with. Here we are on the 21st.

Looking into the closet, this was my side... corner... whatever.

And from the closet into the hallway that leads to the half bath.

I've always been careful taking out walls because I really don't like doing drywall work on the ceiling and this helps keep that to a minimum.

And the fun begins...

Three days later and there's a lot going on. I took out the floor tile which was the easiest demo ever! Anyone who remembers the San Antonio place I lived in a few years ago will remember what a nightmare it was to get all the tile up because it was all on a concrete slab foundation and installed really well. Over here it's exactly the opposite. Poorly installed on joists that aren't installed right and aren't substantial enough for the length spanned. It pretty much just came right up. 

The fun part was with the vanity because the white plastic pipe from the shutoff valve to the sink came apart. I try to shut off the water at the little valve and that immediately breaks because that was also trash. I had to cut off the entire house and cap the water line to the vanity to stop the leak.

Walls for the closet came out too because hey, why not? Next the shower...

Here's where we end the month. I was able to take the glass block from the shower apart without very much of it breaking, so Habitat got a giant pallet of the stuff. It lives on, hopefully as something less awful. And surprising to no one, ever, the shower leaked into the wall. Grout isn't waterproof... backerboard isn't waterproof either... liners also aren't when they don't come up very high and have nails poked through them. It mostly just messed up the insulation. No real damage inside the wall, but an awful lot of tiny black ants became homeless.