I haven’t posted for a while on the bathroom update. It’s all destroyed and now being rebuilt. I got one coat of primer on Sunday. Monday I was lazy and did nothing. Tuesday, another coat of primer. Last night, the first coat of PAINT!! Need to put one more coat of paint on, than I’ve done all I can do!!!
The bathroom is very blue. Mike asked, “So how many Smurfs did we kill to paint this room?”
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We’re currently having something called Smurf Tubing run through bits of our house.
Poor smurfs.
So, you guys are using the guts, and we’re using a mixture of the skin, blood, and other fluids, eh?
Smurfy!
What does the smurf tubing do?
It’s a hollow tube that we can run network cables through — we’re going to put regular ethernet cables in there now, and the nice thing is, if we want to change over to fiber-optic cables or something years from now, we can just tie the new cable to strings in the tube and pull them through the house, without tearing up the walls again.
How much do you have to tear up the walls to do this? This is the kind of thing I want to have done, but am too scared to destroy all the walls. You’re very brave homeowners!
It’s difficult to say — we’ve had piles of work done elsewhere that required massive amounts of wall destruction anyway. The house didn’t have any grounded outlets anywhere but in the breakfast nook, so we’ve had new wiring run almost everywhere. The smurf bits are the last things to go in before we seal everything up.
I would guess it would be kind of like running the new wires here, which needed about 2-foot wide bands of wall removed everywhere the wires needed to go, not including he places they ripped out walls and realized they couldn’t put anything there.
Our walls are all still lat and plaster, so having bits removed produced extraordinary amounts of dust and debris as the plaster crumbled and fell down. If you’ve got drywall instead, that might be different.
We didn’t do that part ourselves, but I did do large amounts of patching myself once the new stuff was run in the computer room. It’s not particularly difficult, and I found the work somewhat pleasant. Except for sanding the ceiling and getting stuff in my eyes when I lost my glasses.
Yikes, that’s more destruction than I have the stomach for any time soon!
We’ve just got drywall everywhere, though, so I’m guessing it might not be quite as ugly a situation as yours with the lat and plaster.
Sounds like you need to get some safety goggles to keep the junk out of your eyes — they’re useful and stylish! I made Liz get a pair for when we were removing the floor in the bathroom, along with a respirator, since the floor was just old enough that there might have been a layer of asbestos underneath it.