More progress
Now that all the company is gone I'm back to the destruction of the bathroom. I was back into the swing (literally) of things at roughly 8:20 am, and today was a very good progress day thanks to some very welcomed help from my father-in-law.
I did some more removal of raised floor pieces by cutting and breaking. I spent alot of time in the removal of plaster from the walls. Wow what a mess! I started filling up a garbage bin with the plaster then realized that it would be impossible for me to lift this once full. I resorted to putting the plaster chunks in to boxes to take downstairs.
When dad got here it was time for Mel and the little ones to take a nap. So that was our que to begin another lesson in soldering copper water lines. I have been wanting to cut the water and cap off the pipes that feed the bathroom so I can rip out the water line mess the PO left. It would have been nice to just turn a valve down stairs and make this happen, but as I have found out with this house when ever you turn a valve you cause a bonnet-nut to leak. So I have been wanting to cap these lines and eliminate all chance of water getting up there :-)
The soldering went relativly smoothly once we eliminated all the water from the lines. This was a bit tricky and required a bit of trial and error on our part. Both hot and cold are now capped and I was able to remove all the plumbing that was halting my progress in further destruction.
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