Demo Time!

So here is the start of the bathroom pics.  If you have talked to me at all in the last month, you know that we are in the middle of a huge bathroom remodel.  We haven't used the shower in our master bathroom for at least two years, probably closer to 3.  We started noticing a bubble of water in the paint on the kitchen ceiling (just under the master bath) and halted all showers in our bathroom at that time.  We had a plumber come out to take a look at it and he was sure that it was the shower door and if we got a new flap at the bottom of the shower, it would all be fixed.  Yeah, right.  Didn't work.  So, we've been busy saving money and waiting for busy season to be over so that we could do much of the work ourselves (and by 'ourselves', I mean mostly Kyle).  We didn't figure it was worth redoing the shower and leaving the rest of the bathroom the way it was (not very nice, very builder-grade), so we are redoing it all - so excited!
Some have asked for pics, so . . .  here is the beginning of them.

Before:

From inside our bedroom.

The opening to the bedroom (about to get a lot smaller)

Demo Time!:

The first hit with the sledgehammer.

Happy that it is finally happening!  (And that it came out pretty easily.)

I came home from picking up the girls and Kyle had the entire bathtub out.

An empty bathroom.

We are switching the water closet door so that it no longer swings inside and we have straddle the toilet to get the door closed, so that's why the door is gone.

So, I think that we came to the conclusion that the tile was laid directly on drywall, with no water barrier, which is why there was water going into the kitchen ceiling.  So basically our assumption that the only way to fix it was to demo the whole thing was correct.

We were able to give away the counter top & sinks (boy were they heavy), mirror, and medicine cabinet on craigslist, which made one happy husband as we weren't renting a dumpster and they took up a lot of space in the sideyard.

A big thanks to my parents who have had the girls a few times (including during demo) so that I can assist Kyle.

I will keep you in suspense for the pictures under construction ;-).