The second weekend of the Pulp Bath 1 project in the books and quite successful! We are deep into the demo of the room and near complete on that end. After a quick surmising of how things looked, we’ve decided to take at least one layer of ceiling sheetrock down, oh yeah, it is double layered and apparently built to last! If it comes down clean, great, if not we’ll just keep going and replace the whole thing. Kind of works out nicely as we’ll be installing some recessed lighting in the ceiling and the less we have to poke through, the better.

So, what was involved in the demo so far you ask? Well, first up, removing walls and fixtures. As mentioned last week, we were left with a tub faucet that could not be shut off once opened, so those lines have been secured with new shutoff valves and all lines, including drain, are now below the floor. Toilet and sink plus vanity removed and now residing in the dumpster! Tub in hallway outside the room and to join the others in the dumpster today (we’ll be bringing in some help to get it down from 3rd floor, going to be a bit tricky as the first staircase is a little tight so plan is to wrap it with moving blankets and then pretty much slide it down those stairs). Walls (aka, sheetrock, plaster and lath) all removed down to the studs. Non-working radiator disconnected and pulled (it’s a classic, we’ll re-use it elsewhere and/or turn it into art). All floor tile removed down to existing Durock, except in the footprint of the tub which sat directly on the sub-floor. Light fixtures yanked and tossed, temp lighting in place.

This weekend’s plan? Get that tub out of here, pull the ceiling and then start the rebuild. Drain and water for tub need to be re-routed for the new semi-circular stand up shower, set the new ceiling and recessed light fixtures, get going on the new walls (we have a very cool tile pattern finish that we’ll be installing) and, you know, get stuff done!

Some of the past week’s demo pics below and check in next week for a new progress report. See you then!