No rest for us this holiday weekend!
Here is what our Labor Day weekend has looked like:
Let's take a peek in the upstairs bathroom! Here is Todd mudding the seams of the drywall. I have already sanded the mud on the seams and screwheads and here Todd was going over it a second time. Now, it has to be sanded once more and it's ready for texture, prime and paint!
Another look at our new walls. This entire room we have gutted and rearranged - meaning Todd moved all the plumbing so it made sense and the electrical followed. What's left for the bathroom before we can make that first celebratory flush? The walls need textured, primed and painted. The wainscoting needs painted (it's already primed) and installed. The vanity, which Todd made himself, must be finished with putty, sanding, and varnish. The clawfoot tub (see below) must be finished. The tile must still be sealed and grouted. And there is still a strip of tile in the doorway that needs set. These jobs will make the room FUNCTIONAL. There will still need to be some finishing touches. (Don't mind that blue sample in the pic. The room will be painted blue, but that sample turned out horrible! On to option no. 2.)
Here we are entering the master bedroom. That wall in particular has had spray foam insulation AND batting put behind it. Why both? The spray foam was to help insulate, yes, but to also help stabilize the 90+ year old plaster wall on the other side that is in the living room. The batting was to provide an additional sound barrier...
A view across the room toward the closet. We got that mostly drywalled today also. Only a few more boards and it will have complete walls! Tomorrow evening I will mud all the screwheads. That window there? Before that wall where the window is was spray foamed for insulation (there was none, not a lick, in that room), Todd had to re-mortar brick in around the window to fix a shoddy job done who knows when.
So, what else needs done in here? I have sanded all the seams (minus the ceiling, which Todd will do) and screw heads. The seams and corners all need one more coat of mud and to be sanded one last time. Obviously, texture, prime and paint. We have to reinstall the heat. We are going to put crown moulding in here and the baseboards need attached. The closet needs finished. But, we are not worrying about the moulding or baseboards before the end of the month...
This is looking back down the hall from the master. The bathroom is the next room to the right and that room at the end will be the nursery. I share more on the nursery another time...
Here is Todd cutting a chunk of drywall...
What else have we done this weekend?
Well, we spray painted the frame we will be using for the bathroom mirror. And we started removing the old paint from the clawfoot tub we are using for the bathroom.
Todd has a power washer that we started with...
A lot of the paint flew right off, but there are still some stubborn pieces that refuse to budge. So, we'll have to find a way to scrape that off without damaging the enamel on the tub.
What's left here? Finish scraping the paint. Then we will turn the tub over, lightly sand the outside of the basin and prime and paint the tub gray. We are going to remove the feet and either have them chromed or, most likely for the time being, we'll just remove the white paint leaving them the bare metal. They will have to be sealed, however, so we have a can of clear coat we will use to protect them. We already have the fixtures, so that just needs installed.
And now, after a long weekend of working on the house, we are watching a movie and trying not to pass out!
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