Demo Skillz

Ever since I bought my house, one of the things I STRONGLY disliked was my master bathroom shower. It was brass, the caulking was crappy, the tiles were kind of damaged on the bottom of the wall, etc. I just pretty much hated it.

Well, recently, the tiles on the bottom have really started to get bad, so I decided to finally remove the shower and get a brand new one!

Here's the "before" shot (you really can't see any damage in the pic):

And since I am dating a fabulous guy, he offered to do the demo work and take the old yucky shower out for me! Here he is looking tough in his toolbelt.....

And here are pics of the demo progression throughout the day on Saturday.....

2 walls down......

Chris getting wacky.....

Now for the tile walls.....you can see the water damage on the drywall....

We're gettin' there - and Maggie tried to help, but once again, her lack of opposable thumbs posed a problem.....

What hot safety glasses!

Those tiles were a pain in the rear for Chris, but he kept plugging away.....

Making progress....

Still in a good mood - impressive!

Maggie realized she couldn't help with the demo, so she took a nap on my bed right next to the bathroom - I have NO IDEA how she managed to sleep through the loudness of chipping tiles off the wall and having them fall to the floor!

Getting down to the studs - almost there!

Ready for the plumber to show up and put the new one in! Chris knows how to put the new shower in, but I'm going to have a licensed plumber put the new one in so that I don't void the warranty on the new shower. Also, then the work is insured - so I'm covered for labor and the shower. So Chris did the dirty work so that I would save a ton of money on labor. What a great guy!

My new shower, which we already bought, is a neo-angle shower, and here's the base! I'm really excited! Now I just need to get estimates from a few plumbers and get the new one in. It will be sometime in the next week or two. Luckily I shower at the gym on weekdays and then I have another full bathroom to shower in, so there's no rush (except that there is a HUGE box with a shower in it - sitting in my living room and it's going to drive me nuts!

I'll post "after" pics when I get this puppy installed!