We are now into a month without the master bath. Things are progressing slowly to say the least. Mitch has tiled the floor and it looks really good. He does good work. We decided that the best course of action on the ceiling was just add a layer of quarter inch underlayment over the existing sheetrock and re-texture the ceiling. Great idea and it fixed the ceiling faux paux, but now the ceiling height is a quarter inch lower than normal height. A quarter inch doesn’t sound like much, except when you have had custom cabinets made to fit the room and now the room is shorter. As Maxwell Smart said in Get Smart, “Missed it by that much!” So Mitch has to shave off a quarter inch from the cabinet in order to make it fit.
Another new development, when Mitch measured for the cabinet over the toilet, he measured the outside of the area, not the back of the wall. Guess what, the back wall is an inch shorter than the front of the wall. I know, most normal people would assume that the wall should be straight, but not in this house. Nothing is straight or level, or normal height. In order to help solve that problem, the sheetrock has to go. After the sheetrock was pulled off and replaced with quarter inch underlayment, we’re still five eights of an inch short. So more shaving.
One step forward, two back. It’s starting to wear on us. At least we’re still married.
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