Day Five-thirty-four: once more into the breech

Being intrepid DIYers we know the value of having more than one project to work on because you never know when a hiccup may arise, as we learned yesterday, that requires you to adjust your plans or even scrap them. So we've moved on to redoing the floor in the upstairs bathroom.

You may recall that the bathroom currently looks like this:

And you may wonder what's wrong with this picture? Well the same problem that we had in the basement bathroom--the floor tiles are stone and hence higher maintenance than we want to deal with. We're going to install the same ceramic tiles that we put in the other bathroom but first we had to take up this one.

Step one was to remove the toilet and vanity like so.

Next, as we learned before, we used the Bosch to remove some of the grout, thus breaking the connection between tiles and giving us room for our chisel to gain purchase.

Then it was hammering time to get up the tiles. This is one time we were happy that this is such a small bathroom. Fortunately the tile came up a little easier than the ones attached to the cement floor in the basement.

Tomorrow we'll continue to get as much old ThinSet up as we can to make the smoothest surface possible. Then it'll be time to get out the trowels and fire up the wet saw. After we get the floor done we're going to paint the walls, move the mirror up to accommodate a new backsplash, make the backsplash, and change the light. One thing we hadn't counted on was some minor drywall work, courtesy of some seriously overzealous gluing on the old backsplash by our first contractors.