It has begun – we’re working on the laundry room! I’m so excited! I’ve been promised a laundry room by the end of January, and I’m really going to keep pushing for that to happen.
Being off work until after New Year’s means that I can get started on some of the prep work. Of course, as with most projects, it had to get worse before it gets better.
Yesterday [err, yes, I'm posting this a few days after writing], I started with removing the trim as well as the awful stick-on tiles. A drawback was that now the floor squelched whenever you walked on it, since the remaining construction adhesive was still quite sticky.
I inadvertently solved that problem today when I was scraping the popcorn finish off the ceiling – after finishing, and sweeping the popcorn into a neat little pile once I was done, the floor was magically no longer sticky, having absorbed the dust from the popcorn. Just for good measure, I actually spread my little pile back around the still-sticky areas of the floor, and re-swept!
When reinstalling the dryer vent earlier in the year, Dan questioned the adequacy of the vapour barrier, and in true over-engineering style asked me to take down the drywall on that wall so we could check. So I scored the corners, wound up my best Chuck Norris impression, and BAM…
…no more drywall. 
My best Chuck Norris impression may have involved a crowbar, drywall knife, hammer, and some serious grunting and swearing (sweating may have been involved as well, thanks spellcheck!), but who’s counting?!
The rest of day 2 – and I use the word “day” generously, not really having worked more than half a day on either occasion – was taken up with screwing in the first of three sheets of extra subfloor we’re adding to better support the tile.
Stay tuned! A trip to Ogdensburg may or may not be in our future – we’ll see!
Maria was never a teenage boy so she has no experience punching holes in walls.