I Did That

We’ve gotten most of the way done with the tile in the den, thanks to the awesome work of my wife, Marilyn and Mother-in-law (henceforth referred to as Momma).  It’s looking great and the tiling will be done today and then we will grout the Laundry Room and Kitchen.  That would put us only about a day behind because yesterday we did get the MBath demolished (thanks Todd!)  and another Thanksgiving dinner eaten, thanks to my Mother (henceforth referred to as Mom).

I had originally guessed that the bathtub would weigh in at about 300 lbs and had hoped to save the bathroom vanity and reuse it in another spot.  Heh. I wish that bathtub weighed 300 lbs. It is probably more in the 400 plus range and was a bearcat to pull out.  Both the bathtub and the vanity were embedded in an inch plus of mortar (I will measure it and let you know).  It took much sledgehammering and I actually pickaxed the mortar in the floor in front of it the tub so as to free it up.  Todd and I wiggled and pulled and pried it for a good bit before we figured out that it was embedded in the floor as well as the wall (we figured the wall stuff out pretty fast).  We finally got the darn tub loose only to realize that it weighed way more than expected.  So we wrestled its heavy behind into the bedroom.  Once we had it there, things eased up quite a bit and we used the handtruck to get it out of the house and into the carport.

Our attention was now free for the vanity and it didn’t take me long to realize that it was not gonna be saved and that it needed to be removed in pieces.  A few whacks of the sledgehammer and a bit of cussing later, we had destroyed the vanity and Todd had toted the pieces out.

I would just like to take a second now to record the fact that we owe Todd a mailbox setting.  Marilyn offered to take him out to dinner to pay for the extra (much extra) labor involved in tub and vanity removal and he refused.  He said that instead, he wanted his mailbox set straight up and down.  It seems that leveling the mailbox has been a bit of a challenge for him and that if we could get it straightened out (literally) for him, we are even.  Deal, sir, deal.