Upstairs bathroom, phase 2 begins

Friday my dad came down, arriving about the same time I got home from work. We started out by heading down to the basement to take a look at the toilet flange. After figuring out spacers and such, I installed the flooring while dad prepped the toilet for install. After getting it bak in the tank leaked so we took it off and got a replacement flush assembly. It was all done and ready to go at about 3:30pm on Saturday. Somewhere in this time we also did some work on the treadmill that he junk picked on Thursday, just need to replace one cable yet, and it isn't that important.

After we had a working toilet in the basement the demolition began upstairs. After the vanity and toilet were out it was time for the tile to go. The tile around the toilet (garbage can and box in pic) came up easy with just the prybar and little to no effort, woo water damage. The ones further away the mastic still worked and they were therefor harder to get off. To make them leave the air hammer/chisel came out. The rest of the tile was quickly removed and then the sub-floor was cleared away to reveal the ship-lap that is on the joists, and mostly keeping us out of the basement. It isn't in the pic but there is a hole under where the vanity was, made for easier access to the plumbing.

Sunday was up and figuring out the plan for the plumbing and removing and capping/plugging the old pipes. Once everything was out we made a plan for the new in-wall faucet and made a copper supply run to Menards. We also picked up more durock for behind the tile, a new subfloor, some 2x6 studs for framing, a bit of birch plywood to maybe hide the old marks from the laminate on the chimney wall. We finished up the day with the large bit of subfloor in and all of the plumbing cut and dry-fit. I also started work on the mahogany counter by trimming and edge gluing some old foundry forms that I had gotten from dad a few years ago. With a bit of tweaking revchris' biscuit jointer worked well. I still need to cut the block to final size and give it a good sanding/scraping.

This morning we soldered up the plumbing apocalyptikitty just slept through most of it. After the plumbing we finished installing the sub-floor and covered the handy access hole that was already in the ship-lap. We also put up all of the durock supports in the wall. We then put up the durock and I started in on the tile, messed up, and managed to recover nicely. (The faucet spigot in the pic is just a place holder so the durock and tile don't scratch the chrome one. )

Tomorrow will be more tile, and other things yet to be determined, maybe up in the attic for light and bedroom ceiling fan prep, maybe more work on the base cabinet and prep for the wall cabinet, maybe some of all.