I stopped for a quick pee before a meeting I had this morning.
It is a just a little one room bathroom down the hall from my office. I flushed and went to pull up my pants. The toilet backfired and shot water up in the air like a shower, for what felt like 30 seconds, covering the walls, the floor, the seat, the sink…. and ME!
My entire face, hair, glasses, sweater, pants, shoes.
I had to dive out into the hallway.
Mondays rock.
Okay I’ve got a few photos of the bathroom. I don’t know if they do it justice, but oh well. If you don’t like ‘em, come on up and visit it in person 
I still have to clean up the floor tiles somehow and maybe reseal the floor.
I LOVE IT!
Alright, catching up the photos I promised you.
Here are a couple of Julie and Dad with Monty.
And here are some of the bathroom last weekend when Dad was putting up the tongue and groove pine boards.
Now I’ll have to get some photos of the finished product, because it’s beautiful!!
Last night I got the 3rd coat of polyurethane up. My bathroom is BEAUTIFUL. I’ve never been in such a bathroom. I loooooove it. Dad is a craftsman! Now on to decorating!
I’ll post pictures of the work in progress over the weekend. I’m trying to monetize some of my sites right now.
I set up a really good deal and tomorrow I have a licensed and insuranced man coming over to trim my 3 Manitoba maples. He’s going to get them off the Bell telephone line, and then he’s going to lessen the load of all 3 by taking out some major limbs that are pulling them over. I had a strong sense it was time to call this guy, and I know I need to follow my intuition. One of the trees is creaking badly at night as it rubs the telephone pole. If it falls, it’s going to take out the fence and land in my neighbour’s yard, so this is best. And this way I can keep the trees (they provide much needed privacy when they have leaves).
K, back to work….
If you remember, my bathroom underwent some renovations in September during the week before Winger died. Dad had come up and we had to remove the wall because of all the rot and mold. By the time he was done I had new plumbing and a beautiful new tub surround.
WELL he’s on his way up today so we can do the rest of the job! Pine walls are on the way! I think he’s just planning on doing it tomorrow while I’m at work so I can’t put my 2 cents in or something!
Stay tuned for photo updates, it’s a little ugly with just the glue and rough dry wall showing since J. and I ripped off the ceramic tiles.
Now what ever shall I cook for him!?!
I was feeling better today and went back to work. Dad left this morning. Dad is amazing. He worked sooo hard for me! What an amazing dad! I’m sure he’ll be in shape for Kilimanjaro, he’s a work horse!
I went to Walmart after work to spend yet more money. I got a fabric shower curtain I cut down in length for a curtain for the bathroom window. It looks great! I just need to hem the bottom now.
Then I tackled the big pile in the driveway – all the garbage from the weekend. I shovelled it all into contractor strength garbage bags because our dump isn’t set up so we can easily dump out. I could only fill some bags 1/4 full because ceramic tile pieces are heavy!!
Then I enjoyed my new shower again.
I got gas tonight – 120.5 – I didn’t fill up. I wanted to cross to Michigan to get cheaper gas, but the back of my truck is loaded with the first load of dump junk, so I got $35 of gas here. My truck feels like a low rider with all the weight in the back!
I somehow got Herc’s wireless connection working over at his house today too, so he can surf wirelessly from his living room on his new laptop. He’s happy.
Now I’ll try to get some pictures up, but it’s late and I gotta sleep, so we’ll see.
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Okay photos up.
Here is the final product after my shower this evening! It really doesn’t do it justice, it’s soo nice!
Now to finish off the walls with the tongue and groove pine! I have to pull off the rest of the old ceramic tiles first. I can’t wait until it’s done!
I’m sick. Killer headache, sick to my stomach, sneezing, coughing up stuff. Dad thinks it’s from the mold. Guess it could also be the insecticide, insulation, cement dust, saw dust, and who knows what else I breathed in. I took the day off sick. I’m mostly lying on my bed, getting up when Dad needs a hand.
DAY 3 PICTURES
I didn’t take as many pictures today because I was feeling so crappy. Here we go!
Dad got drywall up around the top of the wall above the tub surround so it will be ready and even for when I add the tongue and groove pine!
WATER works! Dad is much happier than he was on Day 1, eh? Only it’s soooo hot and humid, he was a wee bit sweaty!
During a break, Dad was super awesome to use his mitre saw that he brought up to install trim on the front door I installed last November. It looks soooooo nice and really much better than the dried foam insulation that was all you could see around the door!
I was up at 6, and we got back to work by 7:30.
The siding is back up. It didn’t fit together as well as it should have – probably because of all the rot in the corner of the house – basically there was absolutely no support left in the corner, that that corner of the house probably sunk a little. I stopped Dad from getting the jack out.
So the siding is back up. It’s 9:12am and we’re heading out to see if we can find some new window flashing. Off to Home Depot!! Stay tuned.
9:16am – Dad needs a bathroom break first. I’ll just stay in here since there is no door. You know, I’m not convinced I’m putting the bathroom door back on. Maybe for company. It opens into the bathroom and takes up so much space. The bathroom is huge without it! Or maybe the bathroom just felt huge with no walls, one or the other..
11:14am – Back from 3 hardware stores. Got a one piece tub surround for $123 and decided to leave the flashing for around the window for the pros. I’ll hire a siding guy to do that and the sill from my front door, then they’ll look good. Anything Dad was going to try would not end up looking good. Okay back to work!
3:10pm – insulation in 2 of the walls, plastic over it, and half of the cement board is up. I’m so filthy. I’m really hoping for a shower today, but Dad is suspiciously silent on the subject, and Herc* thinks there is no chance.
4:54pm – I’ve been to so many hardware stores this weekend. Dad just installed some shut off taps behind the tub for the shower pipes he is going to install, but he is missing something, so we I turned the water on there was a big leak, but there is still a hole in the floor there, so all is good. He just took off in the van to go get something.
I’m really dirty, did I mention that?
Dad had his van open for awhile because we had supplied in it, but it died. I have booster cables that were still brand new. He was impressed. So he’s been boosted.
I hope we can turn the water on again soon, Winger is so parched, I’ve been giving him bottled water!
10:24pm – Tired. We showered at Herc’s house. Thanks Herc! Plumbing is almost done, wow it’s nice to be clean. The house is a mess. I want to stay home from work tomorrow to start ripping down the rest of the bathroom and prep it for the tongue in groove pine boards I plan to put up. Sorry, but today’s pictures will have to wait, I’m sore and tired.
Good night.
PHOTOS FROM DAY 2
Time to put things back together! The siding going back up!
As good as new!
My beautiful insulation job!
Cement backer board going up!
New water pipe shut off valves!
Plumbing progresses up to shower head height!
Time to cut out the holes in the tub surround!
*Name changed to protect the not-so-innocent
This bad.
Dad is here to redo the tub surround.
He pulled off the tile and there is black mold everywhere. It is so rotten and stinky.
Now that the rotten insulation is out, we see the outside boards of the house are completely rotten. Will we have to pull the siding off the house and redo the wall? Dad said I should have moved.
I’ll update this as we go… Pictures have been taken.
11:28 am – back wall of the bathroom is gone – siding and all. Oh and it’s raining quite heavily. The outside walls of the house were just wet sawdust – that’s how rotten it was. This is bad.
3:23 pm – Back with wood, Dad is still demolishing. He keeps taking more things down and isn’t finding any solid wood. I hope my house doesn’t fall down. I’m getting some good pictures of this that I’ll upload here later.
8:21 pm – Just had pizza. Dad managed to get a wall up to cover the hole! Woo hoo! I’m just saving some photos now to add, brb…
Okay here we go… From the beginning.
My bathroom was designed with a shelf under the shower head that always got wet and the tiles were getting loose. So that is where Dad started to take off the tiles so we could replace it with a tub surround and eliminate the shelf by building it into a wall all the way to the ceiling.
Then he proceeded to remove the dry wall.
Soon we noticed it was a wee bit worse that we suspected. Black mold everywhere. It stunk so bad I can’t even describe it. The mold was in our mouth and noses and lungs.
Now if you look closely at this next picture, you can see the metal of my aluminum siding. The boards are so rotten they aren’t even there in places, just wet rotten sawdust.
Just look at the mold!
So the wall had to be removed. I worked at taking the siding off on the outside. This is what the wall was like with the siding off.
Does Dad look impressed?
Soon enough it looked like this.
And then we had to take the rotten window boards down. Here is a couple new boards added back in.
There was so many bugs living in that rot. I bought some super duper creepy crawler killer that is supposed to work for 2 weeks.
Here’s the view from the throne.
And now I have a wall again! The window is back in place too!
Stay tuned tomorrow for more of the tale!