our (1921) foursquare

This past weekend was actually very successfull in the bathroom area. I was able to get the entire wall of sheetrock up on the wall that separates the bathroom from our MBR. This will enable me to work at night (like that will actually happen) on the bathroom. :-)

Dispite it taking me 2 days to get the sheetrock in place its there now. This wall did have alot of holes to account for in my cuts. I also had to get the shower cubby (niche) in place before I could get the wall closed up. The shower cubby (niche) is very nice if I dont say so myself. The wall will be insulated when ever I get into that space from the other side (roughly 1.5 years from now) but none the less its up and only one more outside wall to sheetrock.

Matthew stays very ocupied with the plugs from the tools I'm not using. He has an extention cord that is not plugged into anything that he uses the female end of then plugs and unpulgs the various tools. He seems to enjoy this and has his own things that he is doing. I usually have to ask to use the drill when needed. :-) But he will usually let me use it without too much fuss ..

.... Ahhhh remodeling with preschoolers

Posted by kpf at 8:07 PM | Permalink

Well I think I'll change the bathroom project into a bathroom saga.. I hope to be done with this project in early early summer. I don't know how realistic that is but hey .. working with my sometimes two helpers on saturdays for a few hours doesn't exactly lend well to puttin in the hours on a project. I'll get it done sometime.

I was able to get my single piece of dry wall hung today.. yeppie :-) This wall is hard because now I have to deal with cutouts for the electric boxes and shower junk. I'm planning on getting the rest of that wall rocked next weekend. (we'll see how that goes)

Posted by kpf at 10:27 PM | Permalink

Well the holidays have come and gone for 2006. The old house here survived another round of company and all the fun that can bring. I actually spent no time over the holiday break doing house projects. Which was very nice actually.

It time to gear back up and get to work on that ever challenging bathroom project though. I have made quite a long list of all that needs to be done between now and when another little Foote arrives. This bathroom has to be finished by then - we need a lanundry. Major outline of work is listed below:

- drywall finish
- mud/tape
- floor tile
- shower floor/drain
- shower tile
- tub plumbing / wall
- finish work

Its a large project but will be worth it when finsihed (thats what I keep telling myself anyway :-)

Posted by kpf at 7:08 AM | Permalink