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I finally found a new mirror to replace our decimated one at Fred Meyer. It was listed at $99.00 but I got a discount and paid about $85.00. I presented it to Susan last Thursday (her birthday) and we hung it today.
I am very confident that this one will hold for a long time.
We added an update to the history of the mirror on the wall where it hangs.
Pictured above is the one wall remaining to be stripped of lath. We are going to tackle it today.
Please make a note of the wall pictured above. Before we installed the door shown on the right, we suspected that there had been a door into this room on that wall. This would have been a sitting room. We were surprised to find no door framed in when we removed the plaster and lath.
But you will notice that that appears to be a door framed in just to the left of the door. The only thing is, that door would have been right smack dab at the bottom of the stairs. It is a mystery that we will never know, I guess.
Once we complete that final bit of lath removal, I am ready to do my rewiring. I'm not doing much. I'm adding one outlet and moving the TV cable to an inside wall. I'm also going to run a new phone line, updated and modern like, to accept the electronic doodads of the Interweb.
7:58PM: We worked until about 3:30 and we can now say we have successfully completed Phase One of the remodel.
After the work was done, it was off to our Neighborhood Country Club across the street for a nice cooling swim.
I made use of my lazy Saturday to return to the TV room and resume work on the remodel. We only had a small amount of plaster to remove and I was determined to complete the job. I ended up filling five garbage bags of plaster. However, I learned my lesson from the last go round.
These were not full bags. I learned that by filling them about one third full, they were much more manageable to load in the car. Consequently, they will be much more manageable to unload.
Today, we took on the lath. We decided we will take on one wall a night and get the damn thing done. Lath removal was much easier than plaster removal and much cleaner. However, we still ended up with a great deal of plaster mess and dust. Little chunks remain behind in the lath and lots of plaster falls into the wall and down to the bottom of each cell between the studs.
I don't know how much we will accomplish in the coming week as each evening has some activity going on for one of us.
As for now, it is a hot summer day and it is time to take advantage of our neighbors with the pool.
We have made great progress over the week and as of Saturday, we are nearly finished removing the plaster. Just a couple more hours and the plaster will be gone. I made a couple of dump runs on Saturday to get rid of the plaster. That cost about 45 bucks.
The next step will be removing all the lath and neatly stowing it away. Lath makes great kindling.
We got everything cleaned up and we are done for the next week.
We are hosting a dinner for my Mom's birthday next Saturday with a gaggle of her friends and Susan wants to spend the week getting the house cleaned up. Plus, in the middle of all that, we have the Fourth of July, which apparently has something to do with celebrating the birth of our country by blowing a lot of it up.
So further destruction on the TV Room is on hold for this week.
