BathRoom Renovation - Day Four

We are proud borrowers of a huge garbage container.  We covered the couch in the basement (that ceiling also died) and the sink and floor in the basement bathroom.  Now we've got to empty the main bathroom.  I think there's a wheel barrow in the house to help move the materials out to the container in the driveway.  

Asher and I talked money last night.  How do you really know how much a job will cost?  In fact, you cant really know.  Direct work for the bathroom -- materials $3000, labor $6000.  But if there's extra electrical -- extra plumbing -- or as in my case extra wall work to rebuild the wall.  Its nearly impossible to predict until you open the walls, examine the wiring, look at the pipes.  When one does work, especially in an old house, one has to be prepared for anything.    Now as the client, I am beginning to get an understanding how the scope of work grows.  Generally its cheaper to do the necessary (but unplanned) work when the walls are open rather than having to go back at a later time.  The client has responsibilities too.  The client should track the work that is going on.  I want to try to keep a weekly accounting of what we spent in materials and labor and what was accomplished.

Back to the junk that needs to go.  The big brown dog (top picture of ball of fur) -- Casey, cant be lose today because the front door is open.  So he got a new toy, a stuffless, stuffed skunk.  He's using it as a pillow.  

Lets go see how Asher is doing.  Asher with shovel, shoveling  tile and cement and wood.  Wheelbarrow on its way to being filled, then taken out to the container in the driveway.  My car is in my neighbor's driveway. (Thank you neighbor). Do you have any idea how long it takes to shovel all this debris?  Its over two hours and the contractor is still at it.  Look at picture #3.  The hole in the floor leading to all the debris in the basement on the basement couch.  Fortunately, young adult male living there is out tonight. The good news is that we can see the floor, or rather what would be the floor if the wood wasnt so old that it just disappears.

 

As the pile of debris disappears, we find -- yet MORE TILE.  So hubby contractor has to do more banging  Furry brown dog is unhappy.  He's has pushed himself up against me.  Hubby contractor has to be exhausted.  He worked at 4 job sites today (that's good! ) and now has put in another 4 hours in shoveling debris, moving debris, and banging out debris.

Now is major clean up time.  I went down to the basement and cleaned the living room area and bathroom.  Then we took the big wet/dry vac and cleaned the main floor and the porch.  The last two pictures are of the debris free room.  It took 6+ hours for the contractor to get rid of all the debris.

Now we take a break.  We're off to Baltimore for my high school best friend's daughter's wedding.  We'll return late Sunday and resume the bathroom work on Monday.  Till then.....