Tales From the Box

One cold Saturday morning, where the air was crisp, and the breeze was cool, a team of tilers ventured into a small room – filled with bare gyprock and a bath floating precariously on a bed of hebel cement blocks.

4 hours later – the bathroom starts to resemble something of familiarity.

Walls are up – waterproofing is down. Tiling starts tommorrow!

And so it is – as always – walls come down and walls come up….

Yeah I have no idea what to say – apart from my own feelings that gyprock rocks…..!

(i know – terribly sad….)

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Okay the bath is in! We opted for a classic styled bath, or as the brochure so eloquently put it – a ‘modern’ bath. What is modern anyway? Oh yes – modern refers to the modern era – a period which started in the mid 18th century. Oh – how specific! Considering that the ‘modern’ ye olde clawfoot bath was replaced with the ‘modern’ sleek space-aged fiberglass bath in the latter half of last century – I reckon that the brochure is fractionally broad with its categorising. But hey… it was probably written by junior, hypermodern, office temp..

Some previous box history. Here is the living room as we bought it – fireplace and enclosed – Dec2003;

and shortly after, open and emtpy Dec2003

with stuff but no kitchen… Feb2004

with kitchen and wife—Dec2005

Day 2 and the destruction has stopped. Gone are the sounds of jackhammers and the shrill exclaims of breaking tiles.

Wiring and plumbing are in order – and there is a fair amount to do. To put it simply our old bathroom was the worst possible configuration that one could actually think of. However this didn’t leave us much to work with. So we pretty much started again.

Our shower/bath area has traded corners with the vanity.

Who knows what tommorrow with bring – some more info re: waste plumbing. How exciting!

Okay – a days work done. And a bathroom looking decidedly different. No water or structural damage to the walls which is always a relief, especially when the bathroom was in a fairly terrible condition. The floor is pretty thin now there isn’t tiles and cement. Tommorrow the pouring of the floor ! Huzzah for concete!

Okay some here are some pics of the demolition of our bathroom. Muchly cathartic!