It started off that I was just going to make a quick trip to Home Depot and pick up the new exhaust fan and 5 sheets of green board (drywall). Then I was going to get home, get the fan installed and get as many pieces of green board installed in the bathroom ceiling as I could.
Yep, that was the plan. That totally was the plan.
Somehow this house just finds new and interesting ways to really goof things up. Let's see, in order of goofed up-ness:
- The new exhaust fan rails won't span the distance between the joists. For whatever reason the fan company decided that 19" was plenty. Well, for those of us who have rafters on 24" centers it's not.
- Halfway through installing the new box in for the fan I realize that I put a board on the wrong side of a line. Ugh.... Get out the reciprocating saw and tear it all out and start over again.
- Then when I go to wire it, I find out the length of the existing wiring is too short. Now I could splice in a piece but that would be ugly and probably not up to code. So its open up a wall, tear out the insulation, and run a new piece of Romex. Only electrocuted myself twice!
-Finally get it ALL done and realize I bought the wrong fan. It's the capacity size smaller than the one in the master, although it physically looks identical. It's a lot quieter, but it also moves less air. Oh well, I damn sure ain't changing it now.
I finally get it all installed and it works like a charm! So now it's move on to green board. Remember that there's no ceiling in this room right now so all that attic heat is flooding into this room turning it into a sauna. That's why I am in such a hurry to get the ceiling in place. I'd wager I have lost 5 pounds of weight from sweating so much in the last few days and it's only going to get worse.
So get the first sheet of green board out and carefully measure out the dimensions and holes for the light fixtures. I even pre-started screws in the board so they are already in place and just need to be finish screwed once the board is in the air. I've only got two hands, so one is to hold the sheet in place and the other is running the screw gun. No spare hand to get screws out of the box or place them.
Anyway, I get the piece ready to go, lift it up into place and for some reason it's not fitting right. Crap! I forgot to take out the lights before I put the piece in place. So put the piece back down, take out the lights, put the piece back up again, and screw it into place. Then reconnect the lights. Now I'm really beat. It's 4 o'clock, close enough I'm calling it a day.
Here's what it looks like so far.
Tomorrow is more ceiling, which is top priority! Then I can start working on the tub surround.
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