We had a very busy weekend and made a lot of progress on the renovation of the master bathroom. This is the last room we have to restore, and it will take a lot of work to get it completed. This weekend, we started in earnest. The pre-work of removing the old fixtures and cutting off the plumbing was done a couple of weekends ago.

The first step this weekend was to remove the plaster around the lower part of the walls. This lower part of the walls will be tiled with subway tiles, and the upper two-thirds will be painted plaster. It was tiring, but the biggest problem was the dust storm we created when we made the level cut around the room.

The second set of tasks involved a lot of work to level the floor. We’re replacing the hardwood floor (which had a several rotten spots) with tile. And, one corner of the room was about four inches lower than the opposite corner. So, the only real option was to remove all of the floor boards and re-hang all the floor joists. Once we cut out and nail down one more sheet of plywood, we will have finished half of the room.

View photo gallery, and stay tuned.

 
At left, we are just getting started removing the unlevel floor. At right, you can see the new, level flooring.