a photoblog of what i did today.....

[zippyt]

Furdowns are a HANDY Place to run wires , Plumbing , Speaker wires for the Next room , etc ,,,,,

Pain in the ASS to sheetrock or tile But they Are Usefull

[plthijinx]

Originally Posted by zippyt

Furdowns are a HANDY Place to run wires , Plumbing , Speaker wires for the Next room , etc ,,,,,

Pain in the ASS to sheetrock or tile But they Are Usefull

true true. in this case however, that fluorescent light sucks. same fixture is in all three bathrooms. we don't like them so it's going bye bye.

[zippyt]

Throw throw bulbs In the trash First , then the Fixture on top !!!

[plthijinx]

so leave the FD and mount new light there and not on the wall? that's an idea....

[zippyt]

In My Opinion if the Furdown could be Potentially use full Leave it ,
if Not TRASH the Fucker !!

We Have a Furdown that runs down 2 wall of our Kitchen ,
1 of these walls backs up to the liveing room ( where the Tv and the such is )
it is SOOOOOO Easy to drop a wire ANY Where down that wall !!!
None of that Drill a Hole and HOPE its in the right spot , Hell I have a 12x12 ( Ish ) Cavity to work with ( SHUT UP YA Pervs !!!)

[plthijinx]

lol i'll leave that one alone zip! no in this case the FD has no potential. so yeah we're scrapping it. here are pics of a 2x4 removed. the little bastards were hungry i tell ya!!

[zippyt]

that aint wood , its saw dust held together by sap !!

If things are THAT Bad you guys May want to Start Looking at Structural intgererty All to gather !!
as in Whats a Load bearing wall , where , and what is it Holding up !!!

[plthijinx]

oh hell. check this shit out.....lemme go grab a pic

[plthijinx]

or four. it may be hard to tell but check out the twist in this 2x4. there are foundation problems here too. a nightmare. but i do what i can do. do what i'm asked of. make recommendations and if they are taken they are. usually $ dictates what is done. budgets. too bad we don't have an oil company's budget.

[plthijinx]

today the wx was bad so i didn't go to work to work on the new deck. so instead i worked in the bathroom downstairs. the deeper we dug in the more t-damage we found. pic #4 below shows it best. in the upper right back corner i had to remove a section of 2x4 that was eaten away using the "duct tape" of electrical power tools. yep. a sawzall. we reframed the window and replaced the eaten studs as well as put up most but not all insulation. the temp is dropping here tonight to the mid to upper 20's so that made it a little more important to get up.

[plthijinx]

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[zippyt]

Fun fun fun !!

[plthijinx]

oh yeah, almost forgot...paul did call the insurance company. not covered.

[zippyt]

Awww DUDE !!!

[plthijinx]

here is the PITA job of the day. the shower pan has to come out to make room for the one we are going to fabricate from concrete. back in the day when this pan was installed they used molten lead to seal the drain. basically that meant that you have to get down there with a hammer and screwdriver and dig that shit out. it took me all of 2 maybe 2.5 hours of hammering chiseling and digging but i got it done. once i was down far enough i used a bigger screwdriver to dig down the the base of the drain and get under the lead thereby allowing me to pry out the lead that was adhered to the pipe. once the pan was out i had to clean up the packing (dirt) that was under the old pan to clean it up for the concrete pan we are going to install. this process begins with making a curb form then pouring the concrete and let it set up for a day or so then once it's set we will put down the rubber pan and then tile it up.