bluesman2a
Well-known member
Today, we tore out the shower in our master-bath. For the record:
1) My wife ROCKS!!! She was a real trooper through it all. I'd pull the stuff down, she'd collect it and we'd roll it out to the dumpster.
2) Screw Home Depot and their tool rental!!! My $20 automotive air-chisel made SHORT work removing tiles from the floor. There is a certain satisfaction to having everything you need to complete a project right in your shop! (This also helps improve the wifely-approval rating for HAVING a shop and BUYING said cool tools.)
3) The Estwing I-Beam demo bar I bought for this project has been worth it's weight in gold today. It's *like* a flat-bar, but it's designed a little better. The striking surfaces (think hitting the back with a hammer) are at 90* instead of rounded, it just works REALLY well.
http://estwing.com/product.php?product_id=4000
4) I don't need no stinking roll-off!! While this project generated a LOT of trash, I was looking around and realized my old Jeep trailer would work GREAT. So I rolled the old M-416 around for dunnage duty on the project.
Have a little more demo tomorrow, but thanks to the automotive tools, things went WAY better today than expected!!!
1) My wife ROCKS!!! She was a real trooper through it all. I'd pull the stuff down, she'd collect it and we'd roll it out to the dumpster.
2) Screw Home Depot and their tool rental!!! My $20 automotive air-chisel made SHORT work removing tiles from the floor. There is a certain satisfaction to having everything you need to complete a project right in your shop! (This also helps improve the wifely-approval rating for HAVING a shop and BUYING said cool tools.)
3) The Estwing I-Beam demo bar I bought for this project has been worth it's weight in gold today. It's *like* a flat-bar, but it's designed a little better. The striking surfaces (think hitting the back with a hammer) are at 90* instead of rounded, it just works REALLY well.
http://estwing.com/product.php?product_id=4000
4) I don't need no stinking roll-off!! While this project generated a LOT of trash, I was looking around and realized my old Jeep trailer would work GREAT. So I rolled the old M-416 around for dunnage duty on the project.
Have a little more demo tomorrow, but thanks to the automotive tools, things went WAY better today than expected!!!
