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January 20, 2006
Bathroom demolition, phase two
We went out to the house today expecting the worst, thinking that we'd be spending a considerable portion of time very carefully cleaning up what we envisioned to be an horrendous amount of mouse poop. It seems, however, that the worst of it was what fell on top of my head last Friday.
We shovelled back the cellulose insulation from the front of the attic storage space, over top of the bathroom, to ensure that, if there were sizable holes between the two spaces, we wouldn't be showered with cellulose (and worse). Then Dana carefully removed the ceiling tiles while I stuffed them into a monsterous garbage bag. We managed to make very little mess during this entire process, and discovered only miniscule evidence of ancient mice.
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While I cleaned up the mess from my previous demolition, Dana dismantled the bathroom cabinets, then removed a good portion of the drywall between the bathroom and kitchen. We've made a bit of a mess, especially considering that the main water shut off for the house is definitely not working, which resulted in a sizable pool of water around the recently cut cold water line :-(
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On the plus side, we stopped at the town office on our way back in to Saskatoon, and it sounds like the town foreman will be out sometime tomorrow to deal with the faulty shut off and, hopefully, the leaking water meter.
Posted by plainstext at January 20, 2006 03:51 PM
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It's amazing how the main water shut off valves never work when you have major work to do!!
Our bathroom had no shut off valves on any of the water lines, so all of the water had to be shut off...shockingly that actually worked. It was a bit of an inconvenience to have absolutely no water in the house for the several weeks it took to replace all of the plumbing in the bathroom, but that's what you get with an old house!
Posted by: Kim at January 20, 2006 09:26 PM