Day 2

After Monday, Tuesday was almost a cake walk, although it started with a jog. Me jogging in the rain home from school at 7:45am to meet the delivery guy dropping off our new toilets, tub and shower hardware and valves. Then it turned into a case of buyer's remorse about our tub. After some web searching, we decided to swap out the acrylic tub for another cast iron one. I just can't go plastic yet.

Ok, as far as work goes ... The guys finished punching out the layout and replacing all the studs that should have been there but were no longer after all the rot. It was a bit of a loud day with the air compressor running, the concrete hammer drill thing shooting nails into the concrete and saws cutting studs down to size. Sadly, since one car is in the shop, Drew took the other - and that left Ben and me stuck inside. We did our best, but I was stir crazy by dinnertime. We made cookies for the guys, and Ben made a friend with the youngest one (Josh). Ben told me multiple times, "Josh and I are friends." before he left, Josh gave Ben a hot wheels car he had in his truck. They were good guys! Ben loved following them in and out as they made trips back and forth to their trucks during clean up.

They installed insulation and left things ready for the electrician & the plumber. Everyone is still hoping to figure out the true source of the leak. It rained on Tuesday, and there were no leaks thru the ceiling. So that's good confirmation that it was not the source (even though the insulation was soaking wet all the way up to the ceiling).




The opening to the far left isn't supposed to be open ... but they had to cut it out since it was also damaged from water. For now, the boys like using it as a pass thru.



Framing for the new shower, with a niche.



Framing for new pocket door into the closet.