2nd Day of Christmas...Bathroom Renovations

Update from the front - plaster is off the walls and hauled out, probably 700-800 pounds worth given the number and weight of the bags.  I think carrying that out was more work than getting it off the walls.  We went full bunnysuits and respirators for today and that was a really good idea - super super messy and anytime the plaster was overhead some would come down on us.

I talked to a glass place about the window and it is kind of a specialty need, so we're getting a custom-made shower-glass-on-the-inside-double-pane-for-insulation unit made for us, seems like a good deal for $120 for more than six square feet.  I will still need to build a new frame around it and we won't have it for a month (I didn't want to do anything until I'd seen the internal structure there so we couldn't order until now). We'll have to work around the existing window for a bit, but I feel good about the eventual outcome. The new one will be somewhat bigger than the existing window and we're going to use some of the extra width from removing the counterweights to actually center the window (currently 2 inches closer to the left wall than the right), which will make tiling easier and better-looking. Overall it should add a lot of light, especially since the whole thing is frosted and we won't need to have blinds over the window all the time to obscure the shower and toilet from the neighbor's front-door view.

 The joke around here is that if we liked that rustic look we'd be done. We are not done.

Tomorrow there are  a number of projects to potentially undertake, including clearing all the little plaster bits out of the lathes, pulling down the ceiling (don't even know what it is made of yet), pulling out anything and everything with mold on it, moving the tub, and installing an in-wall register box for the vent unit. Almost certainly won't finish all of that but we'll see how it goes.

Also the roofers were roofing today and it scared the cats half to death. They ended up cowering in the 'cat cave' made out of a blanket draped over a chair. Sometimes they would sit on the seat (under the blanket) and sometimes on the floor but they never went far from it from 8-5, and since Ana and I were still working in the bathroom until ~6, they weren't really calm until we packed it in for the day around 7. Ana put out food and water for them near the cave. They will definitely not like tomorrow either; the roofers will be back in force. Between the noise they're making and the noise we're making, it is properly noisy around here.