Bathroom demo .

[mmcmdl]

Corner beads on sheetrock . I must have pulled 300 friggin nails out of a 4 ft corner bead today . WTH ? The floor is completely out and I thought I was making good time until I met up with this bead . 2 hrs just to get this off with the hammer chisel and dusty as heck . Wearing a mask but the fan has to go down tomorrow as I can't even see thru the dust . I need one of those TV renovators to stop by and restore the entire house for $20,000 . ( As seen on TV )

 

[westerner]

I spent quite a few years in the drywall/remodel world. I would have been a bit more rude about that job than pulling nails.
I am sure you own a sawzall with 'nail embedded wood' blades.

 

[pdentrem]

I hit 3” nails that held the trim around the windows. Walls are plaster with heavy mesh in the corners. Love the stuff…..NOT!

 

[mmcmdl]

I spent quite a few years in the drywall/remodel world. I would have been a bit more rude about that job than pulling nails.
I am sure you own a sawzall with 'nail embedded wood' blades.

I do . Have a pair of Milwalkee sawzalls but they are pretty damn heavy . After using the chisel I'm out of energy .

 

[RJSakowski]

And here I thought you were showing a new bathroom. Whoever did the work on that corner bead must have not wanted any wrinkles in it.

I did a full bathroom remodel thirty years ago. I also pulled out the floor as there was rot around the toilet and tub. While I was at it, I took out 3" of slope over 9 ft., reinforcing the load bearing wall with a 4" I beam and a length of 3/8" by 7" steel plate running between two stone foundation walls. I also moved a window to accommodate the new tub/shower. While I was at it, I did a full rewire and replumb job. For over a month, I had no working bathroom. My toilet was a five gallon bucket in the barn and I finally got to take a bath in the new bathroom to celebrate my fiftieth birthday.

I'm glad I only had to do this once.

 

[mmcmdl]

I hit 3” nails that held the trim around the windows. Walls are plaster with heavy mesh in the corners. Love the stuff…..NOT!

The poured concrete on the floor had the mesh . Some was rusted which came up easily . The un-rusted **** was a **er . The floor is done though now , but it took all day yesterday .

 

[IHinIN]

Never know what you’ll find when you tear into someone else’s work. When I demoed my second bathroom, I discovered that the wall tiles around the tub/shower were attached directly to drywall. No cement board or any kind of moisture barrier. Luckily, the drywall wasn’t destroyed, although the bottom row of tiles were loose in a couple spots. When I remodeled my first bathroom, I found a surprise pocket door frame behind the drywall. Since the wall was already framed for a pocket door, I installed a new one.

 

[Flyinfool]

Don't bring this all up
My bath desperately needs to be redone. house was built in the late 1800's, all plaster lathe. It will have to be a complete tear out. Several joists need to be replaced as whomever originally put in the plumbing cut completely through all of them about a foot from the load bearing outside wall to be able to run the drain to the tub, so all that weight is cantilevered off the central load bearing wall. Using the tub it bounces around like a boat on water. All electrical and plumbing needs to completely replaced. The non load bearing wall of the bath is made of 2x2 so it is thin..... not looking forward to this one.

 

[mmcmdl]

So I'm doing this by myself with no helpers . Have to stop every 5 minutes and have to haul a trash can to the dumpster or the Kubota . Good help is hard if not impossible to find .

 

[pdentrem]

When my dad took the old stuff from the bathroom that we were gutting some 20 years ago, the old steel tub and plaster from the 4 walls weighed near 1000 pounds!