We just made it to the Christmas break, which means it is time to kick back, relax, and completely gut and redo the our only bathroom. While this is not in fact so relaxing, in the last couple of months it has become very clear that the area around the shower is not water-tight and that Bad Things have been going on behind the tile. The window also grew a mushroom. Feeling no need to have to replace the house after allowing rot to cave in the north wall, the bathroom swiftly moved much higher onto our priority repairs list. This is the first break since that priority shift and so our first chance to really take action. Given that the wall themselves are distorted and bowed in places due to expansion of the plaster, options short of a complete redo are limited, at least if the results are to be anything worth looking at. Unless we're too tired, there is a good chance of daily updates on this project for the next week or so.
Those tiles pushing outward - not a good sign.
In the morning, it looked like the picture above. We didn't get started on the tear-out until mid-afternoon. In the evening, it was looking more like this:
All the tile has been removed except a small patch behind the toilet. We're planning to keep the toilet in as long as possible and replace it as quickly as we can, since it is the only bathroom in the house. We also managed to tear out a few patches of plaster and drywall that was around the tub, revealing a foul patch of mold under the window. We will definitely be pulling out anything with mold on it. Tomorrow we will remove the vanity and a lot more plaster and Lee may build a new window.
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