Florida Flip 2...Bathroom Demo and Soldering Pipes

The Bathroom Demo and Soldering Pipes Good morning. Mike and I are in the middle of building a big shed but I can write a quick story. I will take you back to the second bathroom demo. We are gutting the entire bathroom down to the studs and starting over. Just a quick picture of Mike working in the laundry room. We need to take out the old appliances, replace them with new, and redo the room. Mike is working on the plumbing. Onto the bathroom. We have that beautiful very 70's avocado green bathroom. We asked around and no one wanted anything from this bathroom so the quickest way for Mike and I to gut it, is to break it apart. Mike is starting with the cast iron tub. These are just too heavy for us to remove in one piece so we have to break it apart. Mike using the ax to break it...and these tubs are stubborn. Taking a break and doing an easier job. The vanity. The vanity is almost out. Next is the toilet and to speed up the job Mike decides to just break it out. Mike cleaning around the toilet area...yuck!! I hate that job. And back to the tub Using a crowbar on the tiled wall. Mike carefully cleaning up the shattered pieces. If you ever break up a tub or tile be very careful. The pieces are very sharp and can cut you open. While Mike is in the bathroom working, I am taking out the tack strips in the small bedrooms. Mike working on the bathroom walls. After the tub and walls are out we have a huge mess to clean up. What else is new, lol? It has to get worse before it gets better. And more. Time to take out the soffit above the tub. And then the bathroom ceiling. Getting a little side tracked, lol. Mike is taking out the door jams on one of the bedroom doors. We will be replacing all the doors in the house. New door going into the laundry room/garage. Mike is back up in the small attic. We need to add a fan to the bathroom. Here I am using my new fun tool to take out the tile on the bathroom floor. Note....the fancy flip flops and socks Do not do this at home When Mike and I live somewhere when doing projects we tend to just jump into a job when we feel like it Once the floor is out and we get cleaned up, it's time to work on the new tub. Mike needs to work on the plumbing for the tub. Mike soldering the end on the shower pipe. Soldering an elbow for the diverter for the shower. The diverter with piping in place getting ready to be installed. Prepping the pipe to be installed. The diverter is installed and there are no more leaks It may look like a mess but this is a nice job. The new ceiling fan and vent in the ceiling. Of course I put the new insulation in. The new electric for the new bathroom fan. New window installed. And the tub is in place. The messy part is done. The house is prepped for new sheetrock. Time to call in a crew. They do it so much faster than Mike and I can. That will be next week. It is so nice when you get to the point of putting a house back together. I hope you enjoyed this part of the story. Lisa

Florida Flip 2...Water Heater and Demo

Water Heaters and Demo Good morning. It's time for another chapter in our story. I am trying not to overload everyone with pictures so I am taking it slow. At the time of todays story we were still working on the other house so we haven't gone full blown crazy yet Lets go back to December 8. Mike and I are almost done with the other house. We have a few more weeks before the carpet goes in there and then we need to move over here. So first things first. The water heater in this house is no good...so we need to replace it. Mike does such a nice job of this He starts out by disconnecting the old water heater. Using the cut off wheel to cut the old water pipes. After that we took the old water heater out and I cleaned up the floor and the walls. Then we put the new pan in and the new water heater in the pan. Mike putting the thread tape on to protect the new water lines from dripping. Adding the new flexible water lines. The flexible lines make it so easy. Mike hooking up the electric and he is done The new water heater is in. We should really get back to the other house to work but we just can't resist a little demo work. We have big plans for this house because of it's location. The biggest thing we want to do is make sure you see the water view when you open the from door. That means we have to take down walls and move rooms. This is the floor plan for the house when we bought it. This is not to scale but it will show you what it was like. The whole kitchen needs to go Some of our contractors have taken the stuff they wanted. Mike and I already took the cabinet doors off the cabinets in the kitchen. Time to tear out a kitchen The view from the front door....those walls have to go. The dining area that also has to go. Oh yeah..and the den which has to go Mike and his trusty ax....I always call it the sledgehammer Say good bye to the old rotted cabinets While Mike goes crazy with the sledgehammer I clean up behind him. Yeah...that seems to be the story of my life, lol. He gets to have all the fun while I clean it up We get all of the cabinets out and thrown into our garbage pile in the garage. Time to bust out some walls Mike starting on the first kitchen wall. And he is through. Now we can work on the other side and tear off the sheet rock. Time for the back wall of the kitchen. Just breaking through. The sheetrock is coming down. Ooh....look...I see a view from the front door That's two walls almost down. Time for the last wall in the kitchen. Almost clear And that's how fast we can make a mess Me cleaning up. While Mike was busy at one point I went around to see what I could do. This is the master bedroom. We have already gotten the carpet out and we will need to prep it very soon to move into. Here I am using a shovel, hey we don't have our tools here yet lol, to get the tack strip off the floor. And the next day....I pulled the "planter" out of the bathroom. Next week's story will be about us getting ready to move over to this house and doing some more work. I hope you all enjoyed this story. Have a wonderful week. Lisa