Put in new wood, Cut out old wood

This weekend I worked on finishing the framing that was started for the upstairs bathroom, so that when we're finished, the drywall contractor can get in and run along the ceiling, around the door, etc... Here is a picture of the ceiling framing with the insulation put back into the roof area. We'll be putting a ceiling fan duct in here next week.



This is looking the other direction where I framed around the door.


In the downstairs bathroom, I cut out the walls and disposed of all the rubble (that's in another picture.) This will allow the plumbing contractor to get in there this week and put in all of the plumbing for the downstairs shower and to run the water lines upstairs for the bathroom above.



Upstairs, I cut out 3 runs of floorboards between joists to allow for plumbing work to go in for the upstairs bathroom. You can also see that I cleaned out the far wall. That insulation was saved to go upstairs above the batt insulation in the ceiling. I'll replace the wall stuff with some rolled fiberglass before drywalling.

Lastly, in the middle joist run, you can see the ceiling fan for the downstairs bathroom.

It doesn't seem like as much work as previous weekends (and probably wasn't) but the demo and removal of debris took up a lot of time. Hopefully the electrician and plumber will get close to done this week and next. Thanks to Dad and Dave for helping me this weekend.

The baby is doing great! Almost every day we can feel all sorts of new things. Rather than a simple punching and kicking routine now, we can feel funny little pokes and what appears to be hands or feet slowly sliding across the stomach - very cool.