Boys Bathroom Part7: Monday Demo

Demoing tired and hungry, so not a good idea..

Okay Son#1 is really into this. The minute I walked in the door from work he wanted to start. So we attempted to remove the vanity.

In theory, unhooking the water is easy, but not so much in practice.  I had the right tool, but there was no space to move the wrench. We took turns trying to cram the wrench in. This took about 30 minutes before I was finally able to loosen the nuts.

Then total moron moment #1 occurred:

For some reason that I can't remember I thought we needed to remove these bolts as well. So we tried - but it was not actually physically possible.

Then I had another bright idea: cut the bolt down, allowing me to get a socket wrench in there. This was a perfect spot to use my brand new reciprocating saw.

Then total moron moment #2 occurred:

We could not get the blade in. We both tried and tried and nothing.  I thought there must be a part missing. I packed it all back up and prepared to take it back to Home Depot.

(Luckily, before I got it back to the store and faced sure humiliation and ridicule from the HD staff, my DIY friend looked at it and in 2 secs got the blade in - apparently you have to lift the blade lever ALOT)

My excuse? I was really tired and hungry...

But luckily at this point, I realized that those bolts didn't need to come out and we could just remove the vanity top. The mirror was resting on the back splash so we took that down first.  Miraculously, that came off easily and in one piece. (Of course this only happened because I didn't need to keep it. If I wanted to reuse it, it would have shattered in a million pieces) The vanity top was not too hard, just cut the caulking and hammer up. Rounded up Son#2 from the computer and we moved it to the garage.  This all took 1.5 hours.  We had to stop so I could make dinner.

What I learned?  I do not have the fortitude to do this after working all day and the long commute.

Now we are at this point: