The first room to receive the most attention in my apartment renovation was the teeny tiny bathroom. The trouble spot consumes only 50 of the apartment's grandiose 505 square feet.
The room was plagued with awful baby blue tile that (lucky me) was discovered to be rotted throughout. My contractor unearthed THREE layers of tile and wall. The demo for the room took an entire 8 hours of solid back breaking work. The removal of the nearly 500 pound cast iron tub was an insane task. Items demolished: EVERYTHING.
Only a masochist would renovate a four story walk up in the middle of July in New York City...
The 80 year old building is not equipped with an elevator and this made demolition increasingly more difficult. I highly recommend hiring an outside subcontractor (or sub subcontractor) to remove and properly dispose of the construction waste. Extra cost for removal from my bedroom and into a proper disposal container: $300. This was money well spent as the bags of trash at the end of the day were taller than me.
The crumbling sub floor will have a new concrete slab tomorrow morning and will no longer resemble the nativity scene where baby Jesus was born.
1 comment:
Valerie,
Grit Scrimmage could have done this for a 12 pack of beer, some incense candles and a couple dream catchers.
bv
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