Shower Remodel, Weekend 2

Our long term plan is to rebuild the shower with tile, put in a new bathroom floor (possibly slate), and replace the bathtub with a freestanding tub.  So after removing the shower we had to take out the bath tub and all the framing around it.  This took considerably more work than the shower.

Here is the bathtub back when the house was new and everything was all nice and pretty.  Notice the nice metal frame where the shower meets the end of the bath?  This was all corroded because of the bad sealing job. 

At this point we have removed the tub and all the cultured marble around it which exposes the frame supporting everything.  This turned out to be the hard part.  We knew the builder did a great job framing the house, we didn't realize how good until we tried to take it out.

Steve tried to knock it down with a sledge hammer - no luck.  So we got out the Sawsall and started cutting.

Arwen supervised to make sure we were working hard.

 Here is the final picture after the frame is gone.  The bench under the window is actually the exterior wall and the area around the window sticks out if you look at it from outside.  The tile on the wall is from a previous project.  I'm not sure if we will end up keeping it or not.  We will hire a plumber to move the copper pipes once we are ready to put in the new tub.