Up until now this was a one person job. I had been away in Philadelphia for work during the entire month of August and could only imagine what was going on. I saw pictures and heard about it every night on the phone. What's done is done I can only push forward.
You can see that I took down the framing and removed the drywall that had divided the two closets. Now I'm going to move over to open up the wall for a pocket door. This is going to be more difficult than I ever imagined and is the next big surprise of this project.
For a pocket door I removed the framing so that the door can go in-between the wall. Ideally, you would just demolish both sides but look what is on the other side of the door, a walk-in shower complete with tiling on the wall. I am not about to demolish that. I had to surgically remove every nail and drywall screw to remove the studs. I did my best to fit the blade of a reciprocating saw in between the wall and the 2x4s to carefully cut away the drywall screws. As an added bonus we discovered that the stud we would have to mount the pocket door to is not only bent but twisted as well. Look at it in the picture. There is a bent and twisted 2x4 that I have to deal with now.
Take another look at the picture but look at the floor this time. Yes, there are two sets of tile and a gap between them. Actually, there are three sets of tile because the bathroom tile was laid over top of existing tile. No, the various tiles are not level to each other so we cannot put flooring over this mess.
