The snow begins . . .


After a slow start to winter and warmer than normal temperatures we finally received our first decent bit of snow yesterday.  It started with the clouds slowly rolling in over the city and warming up just a bit just before the light flakes started drifting onto my deck and yard.

We had cooled down over the last week so there was time for the ground to cool down so what little came down would stick and not melt away again.  I guess for most people it sounds odd to say it warms up to snow but when things are super cold it does not snow so much and only after the temperatures moderate a bit does it start to come down.

It was nice seeing again the white covering everything and then the sun broke through this morning bringing with it crispness in the light and shadows.  The day waned with a beautiful sunset and the orange alpenglow over the mountains slowly fading into the dusk then darkness.

I wanted to continue to fill you in on the master bathroom remodel.  Yes it is going slowly (as I knew it would) but the demolition is finally completed and the work of roughing in the changes, repairing the unseen damage found when the walls and floors were opened and the additional electrical work to be installed.

The demolition started out the first night as a family affair as my wife, daughter, and son in law gladly took the hammer and chisel to take out the tile around the bathroom sink, toilet, and the sheetrock over the sink.  From there I took out the toilet, sink, countertop and flooring.  This took a couple of days to get everything demolished and my wife decided it was time to start taking out the tile in the shower.  This proved to be a pretty messy and big job as we had the big heavy duty trash bags filled with broken up pieces of tile, sheetrock, and fans. 

We loaded up the side deck with the bags and over filled the trash cans on garbage day so over the course of several pickups we could get rid of the debris.  Hopefully I can have all of the debris gone by the next pickup but there is still going to be a few bags once the sheetrock and Durock concrete board is cut for installation.
Here are a couple pictures in the “Before” look of the bathroom and the start of the demolition.  The master bath is small with a five foot shower, small toilet area and a single bowl sink on a 42” base cabinet.  Not much to it and dated at that.

First picture is just a head on look into the door.


 

 Second picture is standing in the shower looking at the sink area.




This is the shower area after the tile was demolished and the sheetrock removed and the insulation ready to come out as the vapor barrier.




This shows the side wall and the vent piping.  I removed the fan in the wall which served no real purpose.  I pulled the bench out and built a narrow ledge in its place.




This last picture shows the gutted shower with the pan out and the floor removed so I can change out the drain and p-trap.  I will put in a new sub floor and shower pan so I can start the tile work.




I still have much to do and I’ll upload a few more pictures later where I tore out the wall for the pocket door, built the drop down ceiling for the new can lights and shower head.

More later as I’m going to watch the snow fall for a bit before heading to sleep.

Ice

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