Almost there!

So It's taken a lot longer than I had hoped, but we're finally nearing the end of the shower reno. All the tiles are in (with the exception of some tiny slivers of tile I need at the top, and a portion on the side at the bottom) and we're ready to start grouting. My fingers are killing me and my ass cheeks are sore from sitting on the edge of the tub. But it's all worth it. the shower looks awesome. Here's some photos:

Before:


After:

Slow Progress

We finally have all the walls down. As expected, I found mold. Not as much as I thought there'd be, but it's there. It was on the side of the shower with the concrete, and we have steel studs in the other walls, so there's no studs that are rotted. All we have to do is clean it up and we're back in business. Things have gone slowly because we had no work happening on sunday and I had to work only half a day yesterday, but we're still ok to finish before I go back to work next monday. Here are some pictures for your enjoyment:

It begins

So today I was supposed to rip down all the walls and have the plumber install the new valve. Well... not quite what happened. It turns out walls that have been tiled can be a bit tough to take down when there's a stud every 10 inches. I took down only the wall with the plumbing today. So I'm a little behind schedule. Oh well.

Tomorrow is Sunday. I can't do demo work on sunday. Why? Cus my strata is retarded and forbids renovations on sundays and holidays. I'd rather not get a fine, so instead the Deb and I are going to take a quick day trip down to Seattle. Hopefully it's a nice day. We're going to continue with the demo on monday and the big wall being concrete, I'm in for some fun. Not to mention I have a job interview at 3pm on Monday. I think we'll take a little longer to do this than I had hoped.

Here's a "during" picture:

1 more sleep

tomorrow's the big day. bye bye 1970s bathroom