Day two on new house

January 10, 2012

Second big work day on new house.  I joined David this evening for some assistance...and demolition!

Yesterday and today he worked on plumbing for the upstairs bathroom - rerouting it through the hallway instead of a bedroom.

This is a picture of the bedroom, it had a drop ceiling but now that the plumbing is better he can make the ceiling over a foot taller.

 

 This is the hallway he routed the plumbing through - it also had drop ceiling so we'll be able to make it taller as well.  Minor issue today - he left a rag in the middle of this pipe...still unsure how we'll get that out.

 

 Then we decided to tackle some of the cottage cheese or popcorn on the ceilings.  First started with an upstairs bedroom.  David had the brilliant idea of spraying the ceiling with water using his paint sprayer, worked great and took us only about 20 minutes to finish this room.

 Things were going great but the sprayer stopped working.  We moved to the living room.  Still undecided whether to jack up the current beam or tear out the current ceiling (also a drop ceiling) and put in new beam and raise up everything. 

David inspecting the ceiling through a 'small' hole.   


After a little discussion and a period of staring at each other...we decided to rip into the ceiling.

 My demolition hole after about 10 minutes...
 

 

David's demolition after the same amount of time

 Our finished product

Ends up it's a good thing we tore out the ceiling.  The beam was not even real - it's a completely fake beam.  WHAT?  Who does that?  Definitely explains why the bedroom floor upstairs was sagging.