With only 2 months to go until the baby arrives! Yikes (it’s actually about 10 weeks but who knows!). We finally got a start on the nursery this weekend. While most people just paint a nursery – we are building from scratch – per usual in this house 🙂
So this weekend it was demolition. Unfortunately Ryan was not feeling well, and Saturday was not a good day for him. I wake up a lot in the middle of the night and I noticed Friday night that he was not sleeping due to congestion, so by 5am I gave him some nyquil and let him sleep late – it definitely helped.
Since we had prepped Friday night, we were really ready to just start in on the demo and after 2 hours had the nursery ceiling done (and cleaned up) – which is really the hardest part! Another 2 hours and we had the main exterior wall done, half of the next wall and the closet done and cleaned up. With the light fading and no light in the room (the fan was not mounted to a box so I think the wires came a bit loose – will rectify that this week but we’ll be running new wiring anyway).
So here’s where we were starting Sunday morning:
Ceiling done - and yes it was filled with insulation - uck!
Another ceiling shot
Outside wall finished!
Half of the next wall and most of the closet finished
So that brought us to Sunday, we didn’t sleep quite as late but after a day of hard work we definitely needed a bit of extra sleep. And then we commenced the demo. This was easier demo in one respect (most of the walls were exposed from the other side so Ryan could kick them in from the outside), but harder in others – it was this hard cement board which is super heavy and hard to get off, so when we didn’t have access to the backside it was extra work compared to plaster and lathe.
Cleanup consisted of throwing all wood/lathe out the window, the all chunks of plaster board out as well. We ended up with a truck load full of plaster and a huge pile (probably 2 truck loads) of wood/lathe to bring to the dump. The rest of the plaster (and insulation) we bagged up and Ryan lugged down the back stairs to pile up for future dump runs.
The view of the nursery from the top of the stairs 🙂
And the view from our bedroom - no more walls 🙂
Our wood pile
And my dump load for today
With that done I spent the rest of the evening cleaning up – vacuum, clean out vacuum, vacuum more etc. The dust was minimal since the plaster board does not generate as much as plaster and lathe and we did all the plaster/lathe while the walls were still up. But I still had to vacuum a few times and probably a good mopping is in order out in our hallway. Still by dinner time the house felt clean enough to relax!
Of course I still have to vacuum the ceiling and chunks of insulation that did not come down – some evening(s) this week after I get a light in that room again, I’ll get to that. But this is great progress. So what’s left…
- Cleanup (vacuum ceiling, take down nails etc.)
- Take down the siding (aluminum and wood)
- Prep for windows
- Install windows (3) – including the one at the top of the stairs
- Some minor framing to make sure we have nailers in the corners, close up the extra doorway etc.
- Run electrical throughout nursery (main light, closet light and outlet circuit)
- INSULATION (spray foam so we need to hire someone), then insulate the ceiling with bats ourselves probably
- Drywall
- Finish drywall (tape/spackle/sand)
- Install all trim
- Paint paint and more paint
- Re-finish the floors
Hmmm… I’d like to get up to number 10 before the baby comes – doable? yes/no? yikes!