What are you doing today?

[gwand]

Yeah, I’m dreading what I’m going to find when I pull up the floor planks. Who knows how long this has been going on. But I can’t think about that now. One disaster at a time is all I can handle.

Taking a quick break after the first bathroom wall, which I’m pretty sure will prove the easiest part of today’s fun. Figured I’d start on the simple part since I’ve never done this before. The laundry room has all kinds of pipes and outlets and such to work around. And it’s a much bigger wall. Then I’ll have a look at the floor.

Good luck. I hope your outcome turns out better than mine.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Mrs Badger always wanted an open concept kitchen. I hope she enjoys our open concept bathroom.

 

[GaryE]

Wow, you have toilets in the wild west?!?!

I got really artsy this morning while walking the dog soon after sunrise. The sky is textured, with two different types of clouds and just a touch of incoming forest fire smoke. It's majestic. It makes the lighting weird, and I found myself wondering what the great landscape painters of the 19th century would have thought of it. What if Turner, Claude or the Impressionists had been walking their dogs beside me and looking at that? How would they have seen it?

I have this thing about painters who tried to capture how light in the sky works. All I can admire of my own work is how good my back stairs look this morning, since they're all dried out and back in use. That's the extent of what I can paint.

I'm still in a land of crunchy grass and nervous trees.

Busy day ahead.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Wow, you have toilets in the wild west?!?!

Mrs Badger absolutely insists on indoor plumbing.

At the clinic getting a tetanus shot. Stabbed my thumb with a filthy nail yesterday afternoon. Then home to pull up flooring. Hopefully no mold down there and I can just get things dried out. I’m fairly optimistic.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Well the floor wasn’t quite as bad as I expected. No mold that I could see and the moisture was fairly localized. Subfloor seems solid and in good shape. Did have to remove all the trim, which I didn’t like anyway, and tear out a couple layers of very wet, ancient linoleum. Nasty.

Borrowed a 3’ industrial fan from a contractor friend, added to our two box fans, and hooked the toilet back up. Now we’ll let everything dry out for a week or two, then see what I can do about putting it all back together.

 

[Back in the fold]

@WhistlingBadger You lucked out . That could have been way worse . Sheetrocking is fairly easy and some new flooring shouldn’t be too expensive . After that it’s just paint . Nothing to it for an average do it yourselfer and you could wind up the project before hunting season . Ooohhh . . . this works out good in your favor . After finishing this up the little woman won’t mind how much your out in the hills .