Master Bath Demolition
December 20th, 2009 | Published in Featured, Interior
We’ve focused our attention the past couple of months to the master bathroom. We expected to go in, remove the tile and fixtures and do some simple upgrades. Well, turns out there was a lot of water damage from years of no ventilation. It’s already a small space and the fact that moisture had nowhere to go but to the walls and surfaces, we had quite a mess.
We were forced to demo everything down to the studs, including the ceiling, it was popcorn textured anyway. It was actually a good situation, it gave us the ability to raise the ceiling in the shower and make it a little larger (the original shower was 6′4″ tall, I’m 6′1″) and less claustrophobic. It also gave us the ability to re-insulate the walls and insulate the interior walls for sound control. Since we’re putting all hard materials down for flooring we’ll need as much interior insulation as possible to cut down on echo.
Lessons learned in bathroom demolition:
- The proper tools ALWAYS make things easier
- Air Hammers/Air Chisels work great when removing tile
- There’s always something you didn’t expect
- There’s always something else after that one thing you didn’t expect
- It’s worth the extra work
- Roaches love moisture-laden walls and crevices
- The old way of putting up ceramic tile was meant to be bomb-proof