Life Gets in the Way

So here it is November and I only now have some time to update my blog with the little progress we have on the house in town.  If you have been reading past blog posts you know that all summer we have been busy with the renovations of the church.  It was easy since I was not taking official uni classes and just thesis hours so I could take time to work on the renos as needed.  Unfortunately, now that life has gotten back to "normal" I am constantly busy with not only my own school work, but also the teaching/grading that needs to be done for the classes I am TAing for.  Since both William and I are busy Monday to Friday the renos of the house in Regina have been VERY slow going.  Let's catch up shall we?

I think one of the last pictures I left you with was this one

Over all it is in good shape.  It needs some updates in a few places.  The only room that needs to be gutted and completely redone is the bathroom.  Since we like a challenge this is where we have begun.

Here it is before we began

You may be asking "what's with the tuck tape?"  Well as we were waiting for things to be finished at the church, Murphy's Law would have it that this bathroom went down hill and fast.  As we kept thinking "we will be in the church right away, let's wait" everything started to fall apart.  The tuck tape was great as it let us still use the shower but hold off on worrying about the renos here till we were ready.

FINALLY we had time to get started

 

We were lucky that that many moons ago someone had the foresight to use a crazy wax paper like vapor barrier between the insulation and the drywall.  This has made the work ahead of us easier since there is very little rot in the wood.

We had an extremely old cast iron bathtub.  There was no way we could carry it out so it needed to be broken and taken out in pieces.

We have done more demo since this but this is where I have pictures to

 

We have done more but as I said this is where I have pictures to.  The plan is to finish the demo in here, then the plumbing and electrical.

Some of the drama in my life has lifted so I hope to get back into blogging/journaling now.  For those that are interested, thanks for being patient!