We began the renovation of our livingroom and bathroom ceilings today. First we tore down the ceiling in the bathroom. It's interesting when you do something like this because you get to learn a bit about the history of the house. We discovered that the bathroom used to be about a foot narrower. When the previous owners renovated the kitchen and bath, they moved the bathroom wall about a foot back and then dropped the ceiling a couple of inches. Much of the previous ceiling is still intact. We left all of the strapping in place because the sheetrock can be installed right on it. We removed the old bathroom vent fan and bought an improved (read: supersucker) fan. We managed to get that installed and wired up this afternoon. We had to do a bit of monkey engineering to hang it, since the strapping prevented us from hanging it directly on the joists. I just hung another piece of 2X6 on the side of the joist and put a couple of furring strips up and it worked well.
The contractor starts hanging sheetrock tomorrow. Actually starting this project is giving us some motivation to think about some other projects we'd like to do. We'll keep everyone posted on our progress.
Saturday, March 18, 2006
Renovation Day 1: Demolition and Fan Installation
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Ooh, how exciting! Home improvement projects are such fun! How was it working with the little monkey... was he totally curious about what you were doing?
Looks like you had a pretty good project to start with! It gives you a good feeling that, "wow", I can do this!!!! Have fun with the remodeling.
who are you, mom? ;) good job
Jason did a fabulous job with demo and installation of the new exhaust fan. We're very excited to be working on the house. We worked around monkey's naps and entertained him with his signing video when two hands were needed. He went along for a ride to the hardware store for supplies also. He was wide eyed at the 'new' condition of the ceiling.
Looks like a project!
Hey, looks cool. We could do with a super-sucker-fan in our bathroom too. Jenn's (my Jenn's) dad and I were putting up the gyp in the new pantry/hallway this weekend--talk about monkey work. Nothing's plumb or level in that pantry, so trying to make it so required a lot of monkeys.
But renos are fun, keep the photos coming.
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