Vista Cay - Days Six & Seven

The water heater has been moved to its new home

The crown molding has been finished in the laundry room

The ceiling and walls have been screened off ready for spraying texture

The new closet has been textured

... so has the new dining room wall

The painters came in and primered the texture

The bedroom door has been fitted

... so has the passageway door

... and the new toilet door

Vista Cay - Days Four and Five

Bedroom to Bathroom door ready to be removed

Door taken out and jams cleaned

Door replaced and ready for final trimming

Toilet entrance framed and ready for drywall

Drywall attached

taped, floated and ready for skimming

Dining room wall framed and ready for drywall

Dining room wall - drywall up on one side

... and the other side

Dining Room doorway framed and drywalled

New Closet taped and floated

Closet with first drywall skim

New Bedroom doorway taped and floated

... with first skim

new Passageway doorway taped, floated and first skimmed

old bedroom doorway skimmed

new TV Cable in it's channel in the closet

TV Cable running through the laundry room

... look! cable no more

TV Cable in the Dining Room

TV Cable - tested and working

TV Outlet in the Dining Room

Vista Cay - Days Two & Three

Today the old bedroom doorway was closed off

New bedroom doorway framed out

Bulkhead in passageway removed

The lightswitch in the passageway has moved sides

Bedroom lightswitch in its new place

Passageway framed

Framing then moved to the Dining Room

Opening ready for framing

Opening framed

Back to the Bedroom

 

Drywall going up

Vista Cay - 1st Day

At Vista Cay we are remodeling a bedroom to move the door into another wall and then construct a larger closet where the doorway used to be. We first started off by moving all the furniture aside and covering it with plastic protection, then covering the carpet where we will be working and walking with protective plastic too.

 

Furniture and Dining Room Floor Protected

 

Carpet protected heading to Balcony

Once all our protection was added, we began removing the furniture from the first bedroom we were going to work in and rolled up the carpet and covered it with plastic.

 Carpet rolled up and protected

 

Once the carpet was out of the way, we removed the door frames from the closet and the main entrance to the room. Once they were  out of the way we started to take apart the closet, leaving the side wall to act as a wall for the new closet.

Doors and frames removed and set aside

 

Closet wall removed

With the closet removed and all the debris disposed off we began to remove a section of wall to provide the new doorway for the bedroom. This bedroom will lead out into the main hallway which leads to another bedroom and the primary bathroom.

New doorway cut out of wall

With the hole cut for a new door way, it was time to build, install and secure the new framing for the new doorway.

 

 New frame for door installed

Finally, we cut back the tile floor from the old doorway so that we could build and install a frame to attach a new drywall wall in place.

 

Cutting back the tile in the doorway 

 

 Constructing the frame on the floor

Frame in place and secured