Guest Bath Demo - in Pictures!

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Bruce took pictures as he was removing the vanity and said they tell a story themselves.  He even suggested I add these to the blog.  1. Is the vanity before demolition.

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2.  This is what it looked like inside the cabinet under one of the sinks.  The brown area is just unpainted cabinetry.  Looks like they opened the doors and sprayed.  See the flex pipe all twisted around?  It's sprayed too.

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3.  After taking the top off the vanity (sinks were molded into the counter top), the vanity just kind of fell apart. Note the brown area on the base of the vanity, that was the area under the drawers, so they didn't get sprayed.  There were holes in the wall where they opened up to work on the plumbing ... they just nailed up a piece of plywood so you couldn't see the holes when you opened the cabinet doors.  Oh, the area where the radio is sitting is where there must have been a medicine cabinet at one time.  Now it's just a painted hole between the studs.

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4. We're still trying to figure out this pipe that comes up basically at the front of where the vanity was out of the floor and then back to the wall.  The brown and white areas are the floor of the vanity.  White is obviously where they opened the doors and sprayed, the brown particle board is under the drawers. All these holes were there, not ones Bruce made.  The big one in the wall did have a piece of particle board covering it, but not the one up the wall from the slot in the cabinet floor; but the drawer part of the vanity covered that area.

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5.  This is with the vanity "floor" removed.  The white outline on the floor is the ever present caulk they used around everything to make it "look pretty".  Again, see how the pipe comes up out of the floor and then back to the wall.  Being that it's embedded in the cement slab it's hard to know where it goes.  It angles to the front left, so it's not a straight across to the shower.



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6.  There are several of these cut off pipes where both sinks were.  If you look at the black drain/vent pipe, you'll see one of the cut pipes just sticking up there.  Realize that in the picture it almost looks like the pipe goes into the the black drain pipe, but it just ends right there.  Must be cut off at the front of the house somewhere.  The pipe going off to the right goes through the wall into the master bath toilet.

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7.  These are the pipes behind the tub/shower.  It was nice the original owners had a slide in panel to access it.  The Fannie Mae people sheet rocked/textured/sprayed over it all.  Bruce will put a panel back incase or future problems.

8.  The floor.  The black area is actually just wet cement; wet from trying to get the glue off.  The light area is the paper backing from the original linoleum.  Bruce is on his way to buy something that is suppose to dissolve the glue.  Paint thinner didn't work.  In the picture (7) you can see the current linoleum.  The FM people put that down on top over the old stuff in both baths and the kitchen.  It always looks dirty, no matter how much I scrub it.  Like everything else, they laid it down to the edge of walls and cabinets and then caulked it to hide the raw edges and make it "look pretty".

The one good thing we found was the studs are mostly all redwood.  Of course there were two that weren't and they are pretty much termite eaten.  But replacing two isn't too bad.  And with the sheet rock down, we can actually put some insulation in the outside wall!  Which apparently is a novel idea for southern CA.   Tonight we'll go back to Home Depot to pick out a new vanity top, sink and fixtures.  I'm thinking brushed nickel.