It's Demo Time!

We wanted to be smart about how we did the demolition in the bathroom. It's just so small in there with the storage pantry, vanity and toilet. I started with the easy stuff first. Removal of all the accessories (toilet paper holder, pictures, outlet plates, Etc.) as well as removed the door for easier access to the room. Geoff did his job next he started with removing the mirror and then on to the fun part of actually swinging a hammer. He removed all the shelves in the storage pantry. Like his helmet but no safety glasses or gloves?

We did all that initial "prep" work Wednesday night.  Thursday morning we woke up and started the best part of the whole demo, removing the actual walls. Yay! Geoff finally got some gloves.

Talk about committing ourselves to a project....

Here I am calling my father saying... "I think we need a saw of some kind".. so over came reinforcements with actual tools. My father did the tricky parts of routing around the water supply so we could finally remove the vanity.

As well as sawing off the last stud left from the storage pantry.

After we removed the vanity Geoff and a friend Bob began what we thought would be the most difficult part of the whole demo, cracking up the tile. To all of our surprise it came up very easy. In no time we had all the tile cracked up and removed. Except under the toilet. Geoff wanted the bathroom to be slightly functional for a little while longer. We still had not decided on tile yet so who knew at that point how long the project was really going to take.

We finally made a tile decision which means we could remove the toilet now. We placed it nicely in the bathtub for safe keeping until we could have the tile laid and the walls painted the new fresh color i.e. not dark green.

One last shot of the old storage pantry or at least where it used to be. We will have more pictures up when we start putting the room back together. Hopefully soon.