With the windows being installed this coming Friday and Saturday, I had to make a last push to get the exterior bathroom torn out.This is the shortest wall at 5.5 feet so shouldn't take much time right?
All the walls are covered by an ugly tile board. Great to keep moisture from attacking walls in a humid oom, ugly as sin and there is no patching of it that isn't obvous.
So I removed the tile board, and found there was sheetrock underneath. Hu, who woulda thunk it? Then, I remove the sheetrock. Well, in order to remove the sheetrock, I had to remove the double cabinet on the wall above the toilet as it was too close to the exterior wall to be able to remove the sheetrock.Let me tell you, installing a wall cabinet by ones-self, although hard work, is much much easier than taking one down by your lonesome - if you want to keep it in one piece anyway.
and there is actual insulation in that there wall - double hu! It is R11, and I am putting in R13 anyway.
I figured I wanted to get rid of the ugly tileboard anyway, so while the cabinet was down, I ripped out that wall too. This house never ceases to amaze me - there is a lone square of insulation in the side wall - WTF? Really, nothing but the tileboard and sheetrock was removed before I snapped this picture.
When I removed the insulation I found it was really good that I had. Apparently the reason it is there, instead of rockwool, is that the wall had come out before because of water damage below the window. Well, they hadn't properly dried and treated the mold, so I am in the process of remediation. I have cleaned the surfaces and used a mold killer on the wood (I know, only gets surface stuff, but that is fine according to my research). Then I had fans on the area for about 5 hours to ensure the wood was dried fairly quickly.
Sometime this week I will use a mold restrictive paint for the affected area and beyond. Let that all dry out and then I can put up insulation. Fortunately the insulation is not the important part to have done before the windows guys come in, so it should all be good.
Whew! Better you than me, Bogie. Wonderful work!
P.S. "...I had to make a last push to get the exterior bathroom torn out."
I didn't know that you had an outhouse!
; )
Posted by: Cop Car | July 13, 2014 at 08:58 AM
Well, I also have a humid "oom", whatever that is :)
Posted by: bogie | July 13, 2014 at 07:20 PM
You are one of two women I know who have taken down cabinets on their own. I'm not brave enough to do stuff like that. I might pull down a wall, but DH gets to figure out how to do the cabinets. You've done amazing work on this house!
Posted by: buffy | July 26, 2014 at 10:45 PM
Buffy - not so much brave as determined and desperate to get the sheetrock out before the window install. Of course half way thru I realized the dang thing would have weighed less if I had removed the doors and shelves before I started removing the screws. Hopefully I remember that little tidbit if I am ever in that situation again.
Posted by: bogie | July 27, 2014 at 08:11 AM
OMG! I cannot believe that you left the doors and shelves in when you started out to remove the screws. That deserves a dope slap, but you'll have to administer your own since I'm not there to do it for/to you! (I try to be helpful when I'm around. *smirking*)
Posted by: Cop Car | July 27, 2014 at 09:40 AM