„How can you use this?“ – a friend asked me. He added „Your bathroom is the most terrible I have ever seen! I first didn’t notice… but it really is f***** up !!“
Well – he was right 🙂 So… also a nice bathroom can be quite attractive to women… I decided to get rid of it and renew everything. I mean it is around 50 years old. I remember my grandfather using it, who died in 1989. And even then… it was old.
Yeah… and it mostly was in a great mess… actually it was only used for washing cloths… so quite unusable.
One day before Christmas, I tried how difficult it was to remove the tiles, which was quite easy.
To be able to do any serious work… I had to move the washing machine into the first floor. The stairs are really narrow and I could never have lifted it alone, so I ordered a hand truck for stairs. After I got it, the manual said „do not use on stairs, do not move backwards“ – well… that was what I bought it for…
After moving the washing machine upstairs, free space increased by around 30% 😛
2016/12/29
I found out that the bath tube was enclosed by a Ytong wall. I bought a 12 kg hammer and did some full hits onto the tube, which helped in setting it free. I continued with the tiles…
2016/12/30
Actually, I wanted to flex the tube apart. However, besides setting the bath room under sparks, the tube did not mind and I only carved a few scratches into it… I assumed it was no steel sheet but cast iron and I abandoned that idea. Instead I got angry and pulled on it forcefully and finally managed to move it outside.
Interestingly, behind the tube, the wall was not plastered and one of the water pipes was standing out of the wall… even better was the connection of the grounding wires… which came together from all over the place and met just in the center of the tube. WTF.
2016/12/31
Yeah, the garden looked spooky and the sun rays gave me the impression of god blessing my work so I just continued with that mess 😛 I was hoping to be able to remove the concrete like screed with my new drill hammer… well it kind of worked…
2017/01/01
4 hours later…
2017/01/02
2017/01/03
4 hours later again…
2017/01/04
and another 3 hours…
2017/01/06
And finally… I felt like giving a party for having removed that monster screed… I had numbered the tiles that were removed accidentally to restore them later.
Now, it’s time to start turning this bathroom into something cool…
