The hardwood floor is slowly progressing through the house. A few years ago I had nailed down bamboo in the dining room. Ripping it out was not as bad as I thought it would be. Bamboo is really fibrous so I assumed it would pretty much shred as I pried it up, but it held together and comes up quick with a hammer and pry-bar.
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This’ll work
We’ve had this rock polisher sitting in the basement for years. My dad and sister used to polish rocks we found on trips 30+ years ago. I was a little scared to open it since it had been sealed up for a couple decades. Inside we found a few rocks my dad must have started and forgotten about.
One stone at a time
Carol and V went on a week-long mission trip. Time to break some stuff…
Using a cold steel chisel and hammer, one stone at a time pops free of the grout and thinset. Several of the first stones chipped, making it not looking likely that I would be able to salvage enough for the shower floor but once I got going at it, most came up whole.
Bigger on the inside
This little pantry closet gives its life so that we can have a second shower.
Several of the diagonal floor boards are, split, cracked from knots, or have dry rot. I’m hoping to use some of these aged boards for a step later in this project.
A Thousand Stones In My Way…
I redid this little bathroom about 7 years back after J had flooded the floor while playing in the sink…
The natural pebble stone floor was something I wanted to try at the time (and was cheap enough since it was a small space and Costco had them).
The plan is to chisel out all these stones so that I can reuse them for the floor of the new shower…
First Steps
Things happen when Carol leaves me alone for too long… With her trip coming up, the opportunity for making some home improvements presents itself.
This probably isn’t the best year to be doing this (being extra poor and all) but it isn’t often that I get free reign over the place.