Bathroom progress - ceiling and tub repair
This morning was our last chance to shower at home for about 3 days.
We did great work over the last weekend, and had the ceiling totally done. Why did we want it totally done? Basically just so we'd have one fewer reason to stand in the tub holding pointy tools by the ceiling and risk dropping them on a fragile bathtub finish, and because if we didn't get the wall/ceiling corners done now, we'd be working around the tub surround. But also partially because it was total crap work and if we didn't have a deadline it would never get done.
The previous news was that we'd gotten the basic mudding done, and that we needed another pass of sanding. Turns out we needed another touchup after that, and yet more sanding, but Sunday night we declared it done, flat, and smooth - vacuumed up all the dust, and primed it gleaming white.
The tub guy arrived today, and ripped out the shower door, the grotty caulking, and the gold tub surround panels. Apparently there wasn't any active damp behind the fiberglass, though there were some water-damaged areas, so those got trimmed out.
By the time I got home from work, though, he'd finished up for the day and installed the new tub surround, gleaming shiny white, plus a soap dish shelf that may be high enough to not result in soggy liquidy soap bars. The tub is still charming gold, plus extra blue patches on the chips. That part gets done tomorrow.
The only bad news around here is that installing a full-height fiberglass tub surround up to a freshly-primed recently-drywalled ceiling is bound to result in some destruction. Our ceiling will need yet more fussing before it is once again pristine. :(
Ideally, they acid-etch the tub tomorrow, then paint it, then do the final caulking.
We give it 24 hrs to dry, buy and install a shower curtain rod and basic curtain, and can once again bathe Wednesday night or so.
We did great work over the last weekend, and had the ceiling totally done. Why did we want it totally done? Basically just so we'd have one fewer reason to stand in the tub holding pointy tools by the ceiling and risk dropping them on a fragile bathtub finish, and because if we didn't get the wall/ceiling corners done now, we'd be working around the tub surround. But also partially because it was total crap work and if we didn't have a deadline it would never get done.
The previous news was that we'd gotten the basic mudding done, and that we needed another pass of sanding. Turns out we needed another touchup after that, and yet more sanding, but Sunday night we declared it done, flat, and smooth - vacuumed up all the dust, and primed it gleaming white.
The tub guy arrived today, and ripped out the shower door, the grotty caulking, and the gold tub surround panels. Apparently there wasn't any active damp behind the fiberglass, though there were some water-damaged areas, so those got trimmed out.
By the time I got home from work, though, he'd finished up for the day and installed the new tub surround, gleaming shiny white, plus a soap dish shelf that may be high enough to not result in soggy liquidy soap bars. The tub is still charming gold, plus extra blue patches on the chips. That part gets done tomorrow.
The only bad news around here is that installing a full-height fiberglass tub surround up to a freshly-primed recently-drywalled ceiling is bound to result in some destruction. Our ceiling will need yet more fussing before it is once again pristine. :(
Ideally, they acid-etch the tub tomorrow, then paint it, then do the final caulking.
We give it 24 hrs to dry, buy and install a shower curtain rod and basic curtain, and can once again bathe Wednesday night or so.