Bathroom Update

We are progressing on the bathroom but slowly. I finished stripping the built in and door frame and finished patching the walls. Chris drilled a new hole for the bathroom fan vent and ran the ducting to the outside. We've also decided to have the plumber back to replace all of the galvanized plumbing in the kitchen ceiling with PEX. We were originally going to do the install our selves but with this project dragging on so long we felt it was best to hire out.


So Tuesday when the plumber is here I'm hoping to try out the shellac mix on the good trim and get the unimpressive trim painted aiming to get the walls painted next weekend. It should be close but I'm hoping for the best.

Fighting with fishtapes

I did not make todays goal but I did have some progress I mounted the box for the ceiling light and ran wire to it and ran wire across the room to the outlet. Didn't get the outlet wire down to the box the fishtape and I had a falling out.


As I was attempting to let out more tape the tape began forming a loop outside of it's plastic enclosure. I was pretty exhausted and hot at this point and was not thinking clearly so I decided the best way to get it back in was to open the plastic enclosure and take out all of the tape and I could put it back in there properly. Turns out not such a good plan. We are strongly leaning towards just tossing the current tape out... it's so long I don't know how we'll ever get it untangled and back into the enclosure.

In the meantime I ordered these

Actually I ordered the slightly longer glow in the dark version but close enough I'm thinking these will be easier for me to handle. The tape was so large and unruly.

Tomorrow I will be taking a vacation from wiring to catch up on laundry and regain my sanity

The best layed plans

Last year as we were trying to balance both the office and the bedroom project we made a promise to each other that from now on we would work on one room at a time finish that room and move onto the next. As my dad and I tore out the bathroom ceiling Friday I thought of this and laughed. Sometimes it seems the house has other plans for us.

Friday we got the drop ceiling down, the plaster ceiling down, and the plaster off of the wall containing the plumbing runs to the upstairs and then hauled 268 lbs of plaster to the dump. We also got the bathroom and kitchen cleaned up hoping that a clean work area will make Chris and I more productive in the future.

Today, with the ceiling down it was time to start on the electrical. Poor Chris has been on a call for work ongoing since Friday so I've been pretty much been a one woman show. I've never done any electrical before, ideally it would have been nice to start on a nice easy room like a bedroom but what would be the fun in that :)

Prior to embarking on my own wiring project I was a bit hard on poor Chris. I'm dirty, exhausted, and about 100 bucks poorer and all I have to show for it is a larger hole in the wall and a solitary run of romex from the basement to that hole. Tomorrow I'm hoping to pick up the pace a bit and wire up the new fan plus the vanity and ceiling lights. Much to my dismay I will be putting the old fixtures back up I was hoping to find reasonably priced replacement fixtures but alas everything was too expensive or too ugly.

Hopefully tomorrow night I'll have a fully wired up bathroom.

Kitchen / Stair Remodel - Week 6

Wow, it's week 6 already... yikes!!

We made some progress on the stairs this past weekend but with the holiday not quite as much as I'd hoped. The walls in the stairway are all cleaned off and Chris was able to get a good start on the ceiling. As for me I've been stripping trim in the kitchen. Previously I was focusing on finishing up the baseboards but I decided to switch gears for awhile and get a whole doorway completed. I have the dining room door sitting in the basment on sawhorses as I write this... it's been down there for about umm 6 weeks now. I haven't had the time or motivation to finish up the sanding on it.

Anyways on to the progress.

Saturday:

Monday - 1 hour:
Wednesday - 1 hour:

While I was spending all that time up close and personal with the door I discovered that the decorative trim piece on this door isn't one piece it is actually 4 separate pieces glued together so the top molding on this door is going to be taken down and repaired before it is stripped.
I had a little different task to take care of on Friday. Our upstairs bathroom shower has a curved ceiling so it is a bit challenging to fit a shower curtain properly. Prior to this we just cut off the bottom of the curtain to shorten it and then doubled up a couple of the loops which worked out okay, but half of the curtain dragged on the floor while the other half fit beautifully. So I decided to cut one to fit the curve and this is what we came up with.


It's a bit hard to appreciate with just the liner but I'm hoping to get a new outer curtain this weekend on which I can demonstrate my technique.