House Progress!

[TheOriginalJames]

So I had to tear out the south wall of my main bathroom to get to the pipe and get it busted out. Well now the entire south wall is down.
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There's the pipe, busted out in all it's former glory.
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And here's me hammering away at the side of the wall, which has my brick chimney right behind it.
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[TheOriginalJames]

and for some reason it won't let me post them as pictures, so... they're links.

Is that a setting someone was messing with in the Admin panel by chance?

 

[Boomer]

Damn James, you bustin ya ass dood. Even fergot to shave!

Nah they are showin up for me man.

 

[elluko]

They aint links for me!

 

[TheOriginalJames]

Damn James, you bustin ya ass dood. Even fergot to shave!

Nah they are showin up for me man.

hmm perhaps its something in my settings then *runs off to check*

I haven't shaved for a month. lol

edit: ah yes, I had forgotten to turn that option back on when I got my FiOS installed.

 

[TheOriginalJames]

Here's a video brian took of me beating the fuck out of my wall. lol

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[Homer]

looking good James you'll be taking a leak free dump real soon now buddy. oh and keep your eyes open for old baseball cards i know this guy that found 4 in a wall he ripped down and he got around 4k for all of them.

 

[Charmer]

Found any money, ........or dead bodies, in the walls yet, James?!

 

[OUZBnd]

looks like you need a bigger hammer!

 

[Veronica]

lol! It looks like you got some good progress done though.

 

[TheOriginalJames]

looking good James you'll be taking a leak free dump real soon now buddy. oh and keep your eyes open for old baseball cards i know this guy that found 4 in a wall he ripped down and he got around 4k for all of them.

haha yes. I can't wait to take showers in my own house. We got my half bath working downstairs.

Found any money, ........or dead bodies, in the walls yet, James?!

Nope! Found a whole bunch of combs behind the bathroom counter though.

looks like you need a bigger hammer!

haha yes, I found my dads linemans hammer again. Forgot I left it in the attic, it makes my 16 oz hammer feel like a 2 ounce paper weight.

lol! It looks like you got some good progress done though.

Yeah it's slowly but surely moving along.

 

[alleycat]

dude u got massive balls. I could not tear into something like that. I would be way too scared to fuggg something up horribly!

 

[Darkstar]

Here's a video brian took of me beating the fuck out of my wall. lol

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:rofl2:

 

[TheOriginalJames]

Yay! My sewage line is 90% complete. We got the 4" pipe in going to a 2" collector which then sprouts all the way up the wall to vent the methane out the roof.

I got the bathrooms southwall completely insulated and I'm working on getting all of the old drainage and water pipes for the upstairs bathrooms cut out.

Cotton candy anyone?!


I'm going to try to build my medicine cabinet into the wall itself which is why that part isn't insulated.


Here's the doorway. We tore the plaster wall shit off the brick and we're going to seal the brick and leave it out in the open to contrast the blue/white/silver look I'm going to give the bathroom.



Yes, Brian did this one.


BDN's JDM pose, on the bathtub!


Representin Hondaswap!! (that's what it says if you can't read it)


My new exhaust piping glued to the 4" from the 4-2" reducer.

 

[Homer]

your doing great and saving alot of $$$$$$$$$$$ by doing it your self , and if you do the windows to it will less then 2k keep it up James.

 

[TheOriginalJames]

I'm saving a lot of money because my dad keeps paying for everything. lol


I just finished ripping the copper piping out of the ceiling for the sink and toilet.

next up: for the bathtub.

 

[BaggedSplash]

I just finished ripping the copper piping out of the ceiling for the sink and toilet.

next up: for the bathtub.

yeah that was some fun shit...lol

 

[TheOriginalJames]

lol Today my parents showed up around 2-3 so we got the rest of the lines out and my previous tub drain repair taken out, we're going to replace it to keep it from going through the studs altogether and go under neath them between the old and new ceilings.

But yeah, more pics!

We ran out to Menards and got my underlayment flooring. My dad was pissed. They tried to sell us 1/2" 4x4 sheets of drywall which we thought was new. It was damaged drywall that they keep in stock to sell for repair jobs at a cheap price. But they didn't tell us that.

Here's a sheet of the flooring laid down;


Here it is with the toilet pieces in and taped off (to keep gases from coming up);


We got the toilet finished for the piping, and now we got the reducers in place to catch the sink/tub drains when we get them in place.



and lastly we found out how they got the furnace ductwork upstairs to run to the bathroom through the ceiling.


Yep, they ripped the wall apart and put up some of that water resistant board over the top of it.

We got new faucets and a new shower head. My dad is planning on buying me a whole new bathroom cabinet, sink/counter top, etc. He's already spent as much as I have on the house (well over 600). His reasoning on the new cabinet sink is he doesn't want to buy a top for my current cabinet because it could be a headache if it's out of square or doesn't fit properly. *sigh*

I'm appreciative, but buying more stuff I have just seems like a waste.

 

[OUZBnd]

looking like progress is coming along. I can't wait to start on one of my own. Just curious, where are you living or are you living there currently?

 

[TheOriginalJames]

We are living in the house here. I'm running to my parents every morning to shower (they live like 3 blocks away so it's not a long trek, and it's on the way to work anyway). I do my laundry there as well every sunday.