This is my friend Rebecca's husband Terry. She was good enough to spare him for the day to help me out. He was in charge of capping off the plumbing. Note the hole in the wall. There was the appearance of the access panel for the bathtub there, but when Terry removed the panel the wall was completely solid. Needless to say a hole was cut. 
This is my friend Marlene, the demolition expert. She has been known to tear down walls while her husband is at work. It's a good thing her husband is a put back together expert. Next to her is my neighbour and very good friend Jason. He was getting a little frustrated with my constant reminders to wear the safety glasses I bought for everyone.
This is Terry pulling the tub out. We thought this was going to be the biggest problem, but it turned out to be fairly easy.
Jason trying to drain the toilet. A small funny. I asked Jason multiple times if he had shut off the toilet valve. He assured me that if had. So I'm down in the basement turning the water back one to test to see if the caps worked that Terry put one. And all of a sudden I hear "TURN THE WATER OFF! TURN THE WATER OFF!". I get upstairs and guess who didn't turn the valve to the toilet off and was now a little bit wet.
This is the rotten wax seal from the toilet. Turns out the toilet was leaking and the floor around the toilet was rotten and the dry wall from the ceiling in the half bath below was rotten.
Taking out the sub-floor. This turned out to be the hardest part of the day. If the rest of the house is build as well as the sub-floor was, I have nothing to worry about.
This is the hole and plumbing for the toilet.
This is the plumbing for the sinks.
This is my friend Marlene, the demolition expert. She has been known to tear down walls while her husband is at work. It's a good thing her husband is a put back together expert. Next to her is my neighbour and very good friend Jason. He was getting a little frustrated with my constant reminders to wear the safety glasses I bought for everyone. 
This is Terry pulling the tub out. We thought this was going to be the biggest problem, but it turned out to be fairly easy. 
Jason trying to drain the toilet. A small funny. I asked Jason multiple times if he had shut off the toilet valve. He assured me that if had. So I'm down in the basement turning the water back one to test to see if the caps worked that Terry put one. And all of a sudden I hear "TURN THE WATER OFF! TURN THE WATER OFF!". I get upstairs and guess who didn't turn the valve to the toilet off and was now a little bit wet.
This is the rotten wax seal from the toilet. Turns out the toilet was leaking and the floor around the toilet was rotten and the dry wall from the ceiling in the half bath below was rotten. 
Taking out the sub-floor. This turned out to be the hardest part of the day. If the rest of the house is build as well as the sub-floor was, I have nothing to worry about.
This is the hole and plumbing for the toilet. 
This is the plumbing for the sinks. 
2 comments:
Demolition. Sounds serious. S. King...it's S. Martin. HOw are you lady!? I mean it's been 10 whopping years and now you're demolishing your own property to enhance the beauty of it....sounds cool. Kind of like what girls do with their own looks. ONly the results of your place will probably last a lot longer.
I found you via Charie. and I love your blog. it's pure entertaining. You are the coolest. Hope you don't mind, but I already added your blog to mine...which I just started up...so come visit me via Charie's bloggin blogger blog. I love your comments you leave on everyones blog...it cracks me up. you are amazing. Take care and keep in touch! kathy
Wow, looks like fun, or something. I can just hear you reminding everyone to wear the goggles, man I miss you!
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