Not to feel left out

With the construction going on outside between the build of the garage and renovating of the house we felt motivated to do our part.........so we started to give the spare bathroom with the non-functioning bath tub a face lift.  This way our guests would have a nice working bathroom.

We started by removing the tub, sink and toilet which then left the tile floor.  We had decided the claw foot tub would be put up for sale and replaced with a corner shower.  This would entail moving the toilet, changing the door around and re-wiring the electrical in the space.

The removal of the tile was going to be interesting as there appeared to be many layers of "stuff" under the tile, so we proceeded to remove one layer at a time in hopes of finding the original hard wood flooring in fair to good shape when we reached that layer.

We found several interesting things about our renovating efforts:  The first layer was tile.  Under the tile was 1/2" concrete backer board (duro-rock).  Remove that. The 3rd layer was 1/2" plywood. Remove that, being careful not to cut into the original hardwood.  The 4th layer was linoleum.  The 5th layer was 3/8" plywood and we very carefully removed that to reveal.......the original hardwood floor.  Much to our dismay we uncovered the reason for the 6 layers of flooring we had just removed over two days, termite damage and lots of holes where the plumbing locations had been changed to/from over the 100 or so years.  The next layer to come up will be the majority of the hardwood flooring as we need to get a sub floor down.

Next step was to open up the walls to figure out where we could route the lines for our new shower, unfortunately the first section of sheet rock we removed revealed and receptacle for the spare bedroom at the base of the wall.  Not running water in that cavity, so lets move to the other side of our corner shower and remove that section of sheet rock.

No electrical, but a massive 8x8 carrier beam under the flooring in that location.  Plumbing will be a challenge to route there.  You know what, it's Sunday, 95 degrees out, and I've got a bathroom that works at the other end of the house, it's a nice blue color

I'm done for the day. Oliver out.