poplar road

Another busy weekend! Although Richard's initial response was, "great, more work", we were happy to hear from our plumbing store that our replacement shower had arrived three weeks ahead of schedule. And, to add to that excellent luck, our pocket door and French doors were ready for pickup as well. So we picked them up on Saturday morning (entirely forgetting about the grocery run, unfortunately). In the afternoon, Richard took an online course and wrote an exam (more on this later), and I mudded and cleaned up the reno zone to make room to bring in the shower.

On Sunday, with the help of the neighbours, we squeezed our gorgeous (and undamaged) new shower through the rough opening left by the old sliding doors, and tucked it into the back of the master bathroom. That was the easy part. Richard has decided to leave it there until the bedroom and other bathroom are done. I was looking forward to seeing it with drywall up, but there's a lot of plumbing and electrical still to do, not to mention cutting an opening in the stucco for the new window, so it will have to wait. The important thing was that with the shower inside, we were then able to install the bathroom's pocket door, and the new French doors. Not enough hours in the day to get the new bathroom wall drywalled, but the wiring is done, and drywall in the closet got done so that I could continue mudding this week.