Remodel–Progress on the home front

I had gotten as far as I could.  The electrical, speaker, and internet wiring and the TV and HDMI Cabling were in the walls.  The ceiling lights had been installed.   The walls were caulked from the inside and new insulation install. 

For a more than a month we were in wait mode.  First hold up was the Holiday season.  Not wanting to have a big dusty mess while trying to get through the holidays.  Second hold up, the person that we had lined up for the job was at first busy on another job when we called and then fell down a flight of stairs and injured his elbow.  So we had to find another sheet rocker. 

Asking around we found a great crew.  While a little under the line of totally legit,  they could come in and whip it out in a week.  They did a great job and I was amazed at how fast they completed the work.  It was generally a crew of two and probably spent a total  of 3 1/2 days over a 5 day period.  This would have taken me months to do myself and in the end it would have looked like shit.

It looks great, a light texturing makes the taping invisible.  They could have done a little better job at protecting the new electrical plugs I put in, but this isn’t a big negative.  It looks so different than just a week ago, that it is surprising each time a wall into the basement.

See the latest pictures below:

Remodel – Some Forward Motion

We have a cabinets and a new tub on order.  We ordered a shower surround that came in damaged, so we changed and decided to put in a tiled shower in the master bath. 
Last week I met with a tile guy who is willing to take on the job.  He was recommended by a friend and this weekend we went and saw some of his finished work.  He does an excellent job. 
After I met with him I started the demolition of the master bath.  The demolition is now mostly complete.  I have a few pieces of the sheet rock left at the top of the wall just to give the ceiling extra support (you can see these in the picture below.  On the other side of the ceiling sheet rock is the attic.  I decided not to replace the ceiling sheetrock because I didn’t want to deal with the attic insulation and the heat of the attic at this time.
With my son helping and a borrowed a saz-all, we cut the fiberglass shower into pieces and hauled it out since it would fit through the door.  Taking out shower, sheetrock and flooring probably took two days.    This was stretched over four in order to still be able to look for work and do my other chores, though I got way behind in everything.
Removed the flooring to get the flooring out, this takes us down to one toilet in the house because I removed the laundry room toilet a while back.  So we decided to reinstall the one for the laundry room.
Bringing stuff in and out is not light duty.  I needed to borrow a truck to haul out a load of garbage ( this is the second load to the dump since starting).  And we needed the truck also to haul in new sheetrock. 
Working with the sheet rock has replace my lifting weights at the Y the last few days.  I am feeling new muscles that my regular work out misses.  I measure and cut the sheetrock in the garage and carry the pieces upstairs to the bathroom.  Since I end up measuring about three times, forgetting the tape measure a couple times,  then carrying the piece up to check it out, only to have to take it back down to do a little more adjusting—with each of these meaning a trip up and down the stairs—this turns out to mean many trips up and down the stairs for each piece of sheet rock installed.