After our Christmas vacation we arrived home with Bob as planned. We used my friend Branden's hammer drill with it's spade bit and broke up the concrete between the joists.
What a back breaker! The concrete was about 6 inches thick, super heavy, and required constant trips outside to a pile we started...
Cutting through the ceramic tile was scary as the pieces flew like broken glass. After a while, the concrete dust was ridiculous. The basement floor, looking through what used to be the bathroom floor, looked like the surface of the moon, covered with concrete debris. Eventually we removed the last of it.
Monday, December 31, 2007
Bathroom Renovation #2 - Concrete Removal
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Wow-- We have that exact pink tile in our bathroom. the house was built in the 20s, but the bath was redone in 1952 with the same tub and a wall-mount console sink with chrome fixtures. Our floor is a different mosaic pattern, but the same color scheme, and it has a 1/2" little wave motif strip along the upper half of the wainscoting. Everything was in such mint condition and hadn't been updated ever, so we just painted the walls the same color as the burgundy tile and left it.
I looked for a long time for info about our bath-- it's funny to finally see one so much like it!
Good luck with the reno-- your first bathroom remodel is really beautiful. I'm sure this one will be just as fantastic! Oh, and the horizontal planks in lieu of sheetrock is a great spin on traditional vertical beadboard-- I like it.
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