Bye Bye Bathroom

So this weekend's adventures involved finishing up the downstairs texture on the walls.  All downstairs walls are now ready for primer and then paint.  So we decided the next order of business was to tackle the upstairs bathroom and see how much damage was really there.  From what I understand the toilet had a major leak and rotted all of the sub floor in the bathroom and some of it in the adjoining bedroom and the hallway.  One of the floor joists is also badly damaged and needs to be replaced.  The shop talk at one point was about using supports in the garage to hold up the wall which would hold up the roof...lovely don't you think?  The other main order of business was did we or did we not want to install a second bathroom upstairs.  Our current situation is we have a 5 bedroom, 2 bath house.  The master bedroom is located downstairs, but while I have small children I want to sleep on the same level as them.  So there's a large bonus room upstairs with a walk in closet that could easily be the master bedroom.  Then there's the bathroom that everyone would share and then down the hall are three more bedrooms.  So option #1 we leave everything as it is.  Option #2 we leave everything roughly the same except add a door from the master upstairs to the bathroom so we don't have to walk in the hall to get in.  Though we still share the bathroom with the kids.  And when the kids are teenagers we can move back downstairs and they can have the upstairs bathroom to themselves and the downstairs one will be shared with guests.  Option #3 we take out roughly half of a bedroom to add another small bathroom that will back up to current bathroom.  Current bathroom will then become the master suite.  Smaller room would then only be good for a very small office.  After discussing the topic and then asking the neighbors across the street who have the same floor plan and have three older children what they did we came to the conclusion to go with option #2.

Here's various stages of bathroom gutting.  Above: the shower portion and walls have been removed.
Lower: two sink vanities are missing.

This is the adjoining room.  The dark area at the top is the damaged sub floor, actually most of the floor in that room is damaged, it's not showing up well in the picture.

All the fixtures are missing and a bit of drywall too.

We were asked if we wanted to save the tub....Hahaha do you really think I wanted to save that?!  YUCK!  Besides falling apart it was just downright disgusting. 

So that's where we are at. 

On a funny side:  While Frank was making us a list of things we need to go buy for next weekend he said to buy a fart fan.  We were like a what?  So he repeated himself..."a fart fan, you know for the bathroom."   Man he had us rolling with laughter.  We've always called them exhaust fans.  Apparently we didn't know the proper lingo.