The dining room is 90% done. Here's what left to do:
A) Tear off any painter's tape
B) Repaint any painting oopsies
C) Repeat
D) Paint the baseboards and the shoe (3x)
E) Refinish the floor
Ladies and Gents, the dining room is really looking good. I am very much satisfied. I am glad that I went with "apple green" instead of "kelly green." I kind of wished that I had changed/replaced the windows and install insulation but that can be achieved in the near future.
I finished repainting the area around the medallion. It took two coats of killz and two coats of ceiling paint but the whole ceiling looks good as a whole. The trim of the room was repainted about 4 time so it's gleaming white!
What was standing in my way in getting the dining room complete was to remove the damn radiator. Before removing it, I had to make sure it was empty and not primed to hold water. If it had water, then it would be all over the floor when I removed it (think about water from the second floor with the help of gravity pissing all over my wood floors). I had to purchase a radiator key ($1.87) in order to find out if I could remove it. Luckily, the radiator was empty so we could safely removed the beast.
The radiator was removed by help of the neighbor:
Why blow torch it? Well, I tried for an hour to rotate the blasted nut using a huge plumber's wrench, but alas, time sealed the radiator to the house. What my neighbor explained to me was that heat causes the iron/steel/lead nut and pipe to expand which freely dislocated it from one another. After torching it for 30 seconds, the nut started to move! The radiator was free from its imprisonment!
Look at the crap hiding behind the radiator!!! It was so gross! Can you believe there was dust hibernating there for almost 100 years? Here's a close up (wear a mask):
So let's explain the colors...... The dark red is the color the previous dumbass owner painted the room. The white was probably the original. Somewhere along the timeline, sea green was painted along with pale orange. The pale orange matches the color of the radiator so if I could guess the timeline:
White-->Sea Green-->Wallpaper-->Pale Orange-->Pale Red-->Apple Green!
I broke a dolly while moving the radiator. It weighed like a billion pounds! The dolly was made out of plastic (specified that it could handle up to 1000 lbs!). I went back to the store and bought a wooden one to support 1000 lbs. We got the thing loaded on the dolly but it still weighed a ton. I think I almost had a hernia moving the thing. Thank god Trey was there to help me out! While moving the radiator out to the front yard, he accidentally dropped the radiator on the floor! My heart almost exploded! I thought the damn thing went right through the floor! Luckily, it landed on the cement landing outside. Unfortunately, a little 'dip' was pounded onto the concrete. I will take pics of that one.
If I had to scrap the stupid thing, I think I could get 100 bucks out of it. Since the radiator is decorated, I could craigslist it for like 2K!
Where the hell are the rest pics you ask? Well... it's a surprise! I'm cleaning the room up and will show the finish product in due time.
Since the dining room is almost over, I've assigned little tasks to the roommate (see above) and tackled the next challenge..... the 1st floor bathroom.
Let me explain the challenges to this room:
A) The current layout
B) The current plumbing
C) The poor ghettoness construction
D) The future layout
E) The future plumbing
F) The future electrical
G) Other shit that I can't predict
From comparing this room to the neighbor's, this room was originally never designed to be a bathroom until the previous ghetto owner decided to make it into one. In order to redo this room, I had to remove the way-too-big-for-the-room antique sink, the tub, the toilet, and of course - another radiator.
I decided to tackle the heaviest thing first - the tub! Fortunately, I've done work on this tub before, but I forgot how to remove the plumbing fixtures. After some time looking at the tub's piping, I began removing the tub.
Tub in the former kitchen
Bastard's resting place
Side view!
Might as well get the dog in there!
Let's be apart of the house.
To keep squirrels and other critters from hibernating in the tub.
Prognosis: God....
Time to take care of the oversize sink.This wasn't a challenge compared to the radiator or the tub.
Took out all the drawers.
Looking back at how awful this looks.
Okay, so there is a story to this picture. I hadremoved the 3rd drawer and pulled it out. There were two traps sitting there (seen above). No, I did not put those there, the previous did. They must've had some kind of rat/mouse problem. That trap is so huge! It spooked the crap out of me thinking there was a decayed body sitting there decapitated.
Where the sink sat
ohhh, look who is next in line for destruction!
Another fucking radiator. Thank god it's not as large as the dining room's! Let's just look at the poor bastard.
Phuck it. Let's rip it out.... after I torch the hell out of it (notice the wooden board behind me).
Flame on bitches.
It's glowing.
Fueled by anger and ignorance of nickels
A) The current layout
B) The current plumbing
C) The poor ghettoness construction
D) The future layout
E) The future plumbing
F) The future electrical
G) Other shit that I can't predict
From comparing this room to the neighbor's, this room was originally never designed to be a bathroom until the previous ghetto owner decided to make it into one. In order to redo this room, I had to remove the way-too-big-for-the-room antique sink, the tub, the toilet, and of course - another radiator.
I decided to tackle the heaviest thing first - the tub! Fortunately, I've done work on this tub before, but I forgot how to remove the plumbing fixtures. After some time looking at the tub's piping, I began removing the tub.
I had Trey document the progression of the tub's departure. Hoprefully I put this in chronological order (sober right now).
Bottom of heavy ass tub sitting on bathroom vent.
Tub halfway out of the bathroom
Trey stadning on the tub
Tub in the former kitchen
Bastard's resting place
Side view!
Might as well get the dog in there!
Let's be apart of the house.
To keep squirrels and other critters from hibernating in the tub.
After removing the tub, we examined the condition of the floor:
Prognosis: God....
Prognosis: God that looks like hell
shit....
Conclusion- phuck. The damn floor is not salvageable where the tub used to be because of the extreme water damage, a big giant floorboard square, hole in the floor, another hole in the floor which was patched with some kind of white paste.
Time to take care of the oversize sink.This wasn't a challenge compared to the radiator or the tub.
Took out all the drawers.
Looking back at how awful this looks.
Okay, so there is a story to this picture. I hadremoved the 3rd drawer and pulled it out. There were two traps sitting there (seen above). No, I did not put those there, the previous did. They must've had some kind of rat/mouse problem. That trap is so huge! It spooked the crap out of me thinking there was a decayed body sitting there decapitated.
Where the sink sat
ohhh, look who is next in line for destruction!
Another fucking radiator. Thank god it's not as large as the dining room's! Let's just look at the poor bastard.
Phuck it. Let's rip it out.... after I torch the hell out of it (notice the wooden board behind me).
Flame on bitches.
It's glowing.
Fueled by anger and ignorance of nickels
Trey's turn cause he hates radiators too!
Facebook profile pic!
The radiator fits on the dolly!!
Moving the bastard to its resting place.
The remnants.........
The view from outside the doorway
Other pictures after removing crap from the bathroom. As you can see, I left the toilet there because if I had remove it, the sewage gas would make me throw up. It will be the last thing to remain. I had plugged up the other drains with trashbags to keep the smell down.
Oh crap! Another mirror... phuck me hard.
Let me comment that the previous owner did something almost right........
Did you see it? He grounded the outlet correctly and it's GFCI compliant! The problem is that he connected it to the washer outlet (located in the next room)! From the code book, the outlets in the bathroom needs to be on its own circuit!
But there is a screwup (of course!)
Oh the ceiling! God it looks awful. This part will be really easy since I am just installing a quarter inch drywall. Also, I am putting in a chandlier. HOW AWESOME IS THAT!?!?!
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