Completely Redo Your Bathroom on a Small Budget!

so in this video I'm going to show you how to do a bathroom demolition and to do it safe and have a lot of fun [Music] so the first step of any renovation of course is demolition now that's a fancy word for take out the old stuff so what we've got going on here today is let's just talk real quick about some safety equipment I got these awesome gloves of the color of my football team it works your also if you're a homeowner you're going to want to get maybe some eye protection working with this tile when you're working with it and you know you get a shard or you're gonna get cut edges you want to make sure you're being smart about it another good thing would be to get a mask a lot of the reasons were ripping these bathrooms out is because we got molding behind the walls this is an n95 mask it's particulate this is especially good for dust and mold spores and that sort of thing so you buy three of these for ten bucks and that lasts for the entire length of the renovation make sure you make that investment and if you don't own a fancy pair of gloves I grabbed these from the store today these are five bucks this is a leather palm leather backing on it great investment if your DIY or one size fits all so suggest those as well now before we get into this let's talk about the process demolition of course is just the removal of what was installed in the reverse order and if you follow that advice everything will go well but before we get started real number one turn off the water I know that you have control you can turn off the valve and all these wonderful things but you never really know what's behind a wall so to protect your home and your investment just turn off the water and open the taps at the top of the house and open the taps at the bottom of the house Terrain out all the lines and get rid of the pressure there we go we just hear the air rushing so we're cleaning out the lines now we know when we renovate we're not going to be able to cut a line and have a pipe burst on us so we're ripping out the bathroom you need a few basic tools here one is the tub remover tool you can find this at your hardware store plumbing department about 10 bucks screwdriver to turn it a couple of different bits usually the Phillips head and then a flathead is about all you're gonna run into got your drill and you're gonna need your allen keys now most of these tubs here they have a set screw in the bottom you can't see it it's in an awkward spot but you need to know what's there so you don't drive yourself crazy trying to thread this ripping off the wall until that set screw is released you can't remove this so why don't we just start there this is a Delta system it's an imperial system of course so this is a 5/32 bit and you got to go underneath here so we go to this side usually at least this time though yep all right so now you can see it on camera it makes sense right that sits right in there no you can stick this in a whole lot of different places and be very unsuccessful so be patient with it turn it a little bit so you feel it sit in this seat and then you can give it a turn there right of course we have the shower valve usually these handles have a decorative cap on it and you can just use the screwdriver to pop that off so it has a set screw as well now that's out of the way there's usually a couple of screws on the plate these older model systems always have surface screws the newer ones there's a wall plate that gets mounted and snaps in but that makes that simple so now you all can be removed without interrupting your plumbing okay secondly we want to remove the overflow in the waste usually just one or two screws here the idea here is the plumbing behind the tub is gonna stay in place when you remove the tub so you have to disengage the trims here so that that can happen so here's my fancy tub remover tool and it has got two different functions on this depending on the size of the tub this the short end goes right in there nice and snug over the crossbars and then what I do this is a layout screwdriver across the top push down and turn counterclockwise now in the older tubs because it's steel they usually just use plumber's putty to put these on this tub strainer basket is so recessed my tub remover tool is abuse zero useless not gonna help all right now I got to have to show you another trick so that is amazing that's the first time ever my tub remover tool didn't work for me I'm not sure what's going on with this but you know not everything is created equal right so we got a couple of tips that it might work for you you can use to really thick screwdrivers or you can use what I got here a couple of old allen keys great big ones here we go and I'm going to show you two tricks here one of them is you just put in the allen keys okay and then you create this cross again and you can force like that and you can thread it that way now this only works if the crossbars on the bottom of the tub drain here are intact okay and you can see that works quite well and you can put as much force as you need to on that and on the thread if you have a tub strainer here that the crosses of rope eroded away or rust it away here's another thing you can do realize that this is a chrome-plated material it's usually a soft metal like a brass you can take an old chisel put it on the edge of that and kind of go square on just create a dent and then you can lay in a little flatter and you can just tap it around that takes a lot of time makes a lot of noise but it is effective I I'm not sure how to remove a tub if you don't get this at because now you're connected to the houses plumbing if you have to remove this and you can't remove this strainer you're gonna use a cutting tool or a torch and cut the top and a half I don't know unbelievable so it's good to have a couple of tricks up your sleeve Twila renovator one and bathroom nothing all right so all shower heads are created equal they usually have a little shower arm and there's a compression fitting on this as well so if you just give it a little of a turn and a pull you can get this out of the way all right now just got a couple of options here you can just grab right in here with your pliers and just turn it and you're probably gonna just take the shower head off okay and then you can try and give me this a turn can be a little bit frustrating because the guy that put this in originally you usually use a lot of force okay so get a good grip on it and then once you get that started you can just kind of finish it off by hand of course if you're stuck and the wrench isn't working for you you can combine this with a nurse trick that I know you get the wrench on there nice and tight for a screwdriver in the pipe gives you extra leverage and you can pull both of those at the same time there's no way that that one I'm strong enough that that won't work so once we better fixtures removed the next thing is get rid of all the silicone joints that are around here because we're gonna be removing the walls next and that is a lot easier to do if they are not silicone to the tub just grab your knife the ceiling doesn't appear to be this silicone and painted so cut that loose as well all right so now it's time to remove the walls and if you've grabbed your sledgehammer or one of these beautiful stanley bars you've got the wrong tool in your hand like I said before this is more surgery so we have to be smart because what we want to do is want to reinstall the new tub surround in the same space without creating a mountain of work repairing walls so the technique that you want to use here is really simple grab an old flat chisel and a hammer and you want to remove this tile one at a time so we have control over the wall and hopefully we don't damage the wall board so badly you can see tile chips so make sure you wear your glasses working like this allows us to cut this wall board right beside the old painted line and then we can create a tile line from the same spot on the wall so we don't have to repair all the drywall and repaint now if you've never done this kind of work before you need to understand that when ceramic tile breaks like that it's not the clay that's dangerous it's the glaze this glaze is razor sharp make sure you're wearing your gloves now I can create a cut line and I can cut right down the drywall now we're ready to remove the walls okay so here's the deal if you're a home renovator and you're working on your own house and you don't want to be dressed up like a clown with a diaper on your face you know you realize you're taking some risk okay so for me I'm not a big fan of wearing the mask let's get rid of that and I'll tell you why I find wearing the mask makes it really hard to breathe and to be honest with you I guess I'm a little old-school I kind of believe like whatever you do for a living is gonna kill you so you know you can try to take all the safety precautions you like to avoid injury that's one thing but I'm not gonna worry about a little bit of the snow and again if I'm we're going to real dust the environment I set up negative air and I'll wear a mask on the occasion I'm gonna cut eight feet of drywall now of the reciprocate er it's gonna make a little dirt and if you're afraid of dirt then don't renovate just see here I'm just gonna cut about one inch back from my finish line this is outside of the tub it's not necessary to have any kind of waterproof board here so that's why I'm cutting at this point okay and the other way to do this is with a knife if you don't have one of those fancy tools you can always use a knife no looks like the last renovator that was here used a green board it's jointed right at the same spot as what we're doing and then they taped it and did a bunch of mud work so I got a half-inch I'm led to carve through first but if you're patient run this down a few times it'll eventually work right through to the back of the drywall okay here we go oh I'm going to show you my technique for removing the tub surround walls no you don't chisel off every tile actually had someone comment in the section below about can I just remove all the tile with a chisel and then tile again on the same wall board and the answer is no for obvious reasons like this the surface protection that paper that's been treated for the anti mold and the water resistance it's going to get damaged okay it's not worth your effort to try to save anything here because I'll show you how you'll see in a second you saw how hard it was a chip away of this I can remove the rest of these walls in less than 10 minutes okay so bear with me and watch the technique and it's real simple what we're looking at is just smashing holes right through everything in the same swing [Applause] okay so here that's that's a stud that's a stud I've cut the wallboard away because I'm wearing my safety glasses with gloves I can get in there a reach and grab it now just use your ear force and use your hammer just shake it it'll jiggle all of the drywall screws that are in this board loose from the backside all right generally comes out in one piece things like this tear off okay now you can just walk that right out to your garbage bin so a lot of homeowners I know have the same kind of problem what to do with the garbage they don't want to pile it up in their garage they can't put it on the curb for the city to pick up so here we go we're going to show you a little secret I got to do this quick before my bag blows away yeah all right if you've never seen this before this is dumpster in the back you can buy this at the local building stores the brilliant little inventions comes with these two straps all you got to do is lay it out near your curb and when you're done you call the 1-800 number that's on the side of the bag pay with your visa over the phone these guys like come by grab an arm scoop it up take it away for you the whole thing full I can put an entire bathroom in there tub toilet walls floors the whole thing clean the vania in the top so about $250 for removal brilliant deal if you want to get a roll off pin you risk damaging your driveway takes a lot more space and usually start at five or six hundred bucks so this is perfect project size so the quick trick here before you start pulling off all the walls to help reduce your scope of work when you're done remember the ceiling here there's gonna be a drywall joint the tape will go from here up and then across and if you're not careful to cut through the paper before you rip off this will you'll peel it off the ceiling then you're gonna have to repair the drywall and repaint the ceiling again so we try our best to avoid that from happening we've run our knife across here a few times almost like we're trying to cut it right through the drywall because lots of people use a lot of mud in the quarters you want to make sure you got that paper cut all right now it's right back to the same technique only different and just give it little tugs little vibrations he'll all these screws are pop loose all right and then once we've got to kind of separate it well downward force so that we don't damage our ceiling there we go so here's the edge of our ceiling now that is perfect there's absolutely zero damage here it's exactly what we're looking for when we go back with our new wall board and tile our new tile is gonna be thicker than this old stuff this is what we like to call biscuit it's really thin the newer ones thicker so it'll actually have a thicker profile and that is going to put us in a position where we're gonna finish clean on that ceiling no rework on the ceiling there's another whole day you're not gonna waste I get a lot of people asking me questions about this sort of situation here this black and the insulation and they ask these questions in the comment section below and what you want to know is this is not mold correct this is air movement and when air is moving through a building cavity it's gonna pick up whatever dirt is around it's going to deposit it wherever there's resistance so this is just air movement probably because it just wasn't sealed up tight enough on the backside of this wall it's nothing to be concerned about it doesn't affect the insulation quality it just looks ugly so if it bothers you you can replace it but you don't need to okay so this is an empty cavity we got plumbing and wiring back here that's a really deep wall it's a mechanical wall probably gonna have heat runs as well so here you want to be careful watch your swing you don't want to go out too hard and punch right through here because you might hit something important in record remember keep your mouth closed when you're doing this sort of thing here we go same technique alright make sure the silicone is cut bit of a vibration one thing you're gonna want to do here check for nails on the adjacent wall okay make sure there's room for that wall board to open up when you get it going it'll just open like a door and again since you're walking through your house fill up all the broken bits that are gonna make a mess along the way muzzle leave all the mess in the same room so then you don't have to clean the entire home later here we go know this piece of board is probably about 60 or 70 pounds so keep that in mind if you're working alone or 70 pounds there's too much to carry you can just smash across and then smash down first then you can reduce the size of the work right so for the top side of this wall I really like to smash it down into two pieces tearing out this whole wall and protecting the ceiling while carrying all that weight and not slicing your leg on this cut tile it can be a trick so what I would do let's just find a place where we know the cavity is safe we'll smash right out that grant line to the ceiling now I'm gonna put my hammer up against the frame on an angle here so I can pry it off again same thing right down from the ceiling away from your cutlery well I mean it's obvious that there's a lot more to do in a demolition than just taking on a sledgehammer beating the hell out of it hell no they love to show that on TV but let's stop and think here for a second what if we beat the tar out of the wall and we hit the stack right you punch a hole on this bad boy now you're bringing in the plumber and you're replacing the stack right into the Attic that's attic work as well what if you swing the hammer here you puncture the joint in this copper line if you didn't notice that you did that you'd put your bathroom back together again turn the water back on and flood out the entire house so when you're tearing things apart if you don't know what's on the other side or inside that wall which you don't you have to do some patience and a little bit of skill I know it's great TV but using a sledgehammer inside a bathroom that's really not what that tool was made for now we don't want to wreck the ceiling so we got a thousand so far we've saved the ceiling remember when you're doing a demolition and you're doing an isolated project like we're only doing the tub in the tub surround it's our job to now stop and think how do I keep the scope of work from getting out of control okay so one of the things I don't want to do is I don't want to have to start getting into finished carpentry because that's a brand-new set of tools that's a brand-new day of work oh my goodness so what we have is a outside corner bead holding this wall in place so I'm going to grab my hacksaw and I'm gonna cut my corner bead okay gonna set it and go on a 45 degree angle and you'll cut both sides there we go now when I rip apart my corner bead on my wall I'm gonna leave all the trim alone there's another whole set of tools and a whole setup I mean can you imagine having to set up all your tools and make two cuts what a painting buddy okay so now this bathroom here is basically a great big square and they put the tub in here and out of this wall to bring the controls into this style of construction means that you are going to be doing some mud work and you're gonna have to do some paint but it's only on the tiny little wall okay so when you're taking this apart don't even try to save the corner it's gonna try to peel it open to put it back later you're gonna crack the paint line you're gonna make a mess just get it out of the way move on it's gonna be in the way of installing your wall as well and you can see here they've done it with nails okay so the best way to get rid of this is actually swing the claw hammer at it right on the corner once you've popped it off the wall you can just all right now and you can be a surgical as you want to find each nail all right make sure it's not gonna do anything fancy done same thing just take your time it's easier when you're going down cuz it'll Bend and break it everywhere the nail is you just put your clown behind it maybe pull it out and then you can pull it down again and if it doesn't break away nice and clean for you just throw your claw into the wall board so you're gonna grip and then you can rip it out and that's where we cut it perfect okay remember to always close the blade before you put it in your pocket yeah I learned that one the hard winter so the majority of our demo is complete and so before we pull out the tub we're gonna just take a minute take all the nails and screws out of the wall clean up any extra debris that needs to be removed and then we're going to take everything off the floor sweep clean out the tub vacuum we're gonna start with a clean slate again before I start messing with the tub because the secret here is that the floor in this bathroom we want to keep okay so we're actually reinstalling with the same floor still attached so we want to take a little extra care here and make sure that as we go we're not causing any damage that's not necessary again keep your scope of work reduced and then this kind of project is very predictable so the next step in our demolition is we have to remove the tub but before we can move the tub we have to cut our plumbing out and here's why we're in an alcove situation and this tub won't pull straight out into the room because the frame is exactly the same size as the tub but on that side of the wall there's drywall so I have half an inch too small to be able to slide the tub out so what I have to do is I have to lift it roll it and then slide it in between the studs of the wall in order to take it out and the reason I want to do it that way is because then I'm not affecting and increasing the scope of work by causing new drywall work a new painting going on it takes a few extra minutes but if you take the time to cut the part of the plumbing out of the way then you and pull all the nails you have all the room that you're going need to be able to roll the tub out we'll show you how to do it in just a minute but first remember we have our water supply off you just need one of these little copper cutting tubes and I'm gonna pick a spot that's convenient for me for putting the plumbing back together I don't want to have it anywhere near my wood bracing okay so now we've cut and capped all of our plumbing it's completely out of the way now so we remove our tub and you can see the entire process for how to do all this plumbing on our next copper to PEX video so the last step that we have before we pull our tub out is we just go around and make sure that we pull out all of these nails and screws again the gap here is exactly 60 inch the tub is exactly 60 inch so there's no room to maneuver here if we're constantly bumping into nails and screws so don't drive yourself crazy just take two minutes so just keep in mind when you're cleaning your wall before you pull the tub out when you pull the tub out you're gonna want to be comfortable so you're gonna roll it and you're gonna lift it up to where you're standing comfortable so you're gonna hold the tub here you got another 32 inches so you want to make sure you're you're pulling all the nails up to four four and a half feet just so that you're not getting anything snagged especially your hands all right so so far we've managed to remove all of the shower fixtures all of the walls all the tile and we haven't damaged anything outside of our scope of work which is new tub and new tile surround so the last thing we got to do before we pull the tub make sure we cut out the silicone joint down here and I mean sacrifice your blade get that right in there you're gonna dull off the tip mm-hm and that's okay that's why they make them break offs okay now we've got this moving mat here so that we have somewhere to set this tub after we pull it out we're trying to remove the reinstall the tub in the same exact spot without damaging this tile if we pull this off we managed to keep this cost - this job down to three thousand dollars instead of upwards of six or seven that would be awesome okay so I'm going to attempt to do this on my own for all of the benefit of everyone out there who's doesn't have anybody around you can help I actually am pretty lucky here because I don't have a lot of studs in my walls on the end I've got this stud here and I've got this big cavity here that I can work with I've only got one on the other side and all my plumbing is out of the way so I should be okay to find some room to wiggle this over what I want to do is I want to just first of all start by rolling it forward and then picking it in so that I break the seal and get this tub away from the tile and I think I've done that okay already I'm getting caught on the drywall over here and the secret to how this works is you got to give it just a bit of a twist and then get this edge of the tub in between the studs into the installation cavity so you can slide it over a little bit you don't need a whole lot of extra room to wiggle one of these out just a little bit there we go now at this point because this is the steel tub I would recommend grabbing a neighbor get some extra help carrying this down the stairs I know there's a lot of people out there we could probably lift this up and walk out no problem remember the goal here is to reduce the scope of work I'm putting a hole in a wall on the way down the staircase is not gonna help you about where that throwing just a note if you do your demolition the day before garbage day and you want to recycle your tub the easiest way to do it has leave it on your curb on for a garbage day morning there's always somebody driving around the neighborhood for the truck picking up metal things it's taken recycling situation we got a lot of debris here but I just wanted to point out once again here's the stack her plumbing line comes out on a 45 comes across pick up this vent and then there's a p-trap to here and then we have this plumbing and this looks like it could be reused but here's the issue our new tub has got a different body mold to it so our center line is going to be in a different location all right we don't have a four-inch ledge on the front with a little edge on the back so we're actually going to be moving over here a little bit and the back side has got to go up to 20 inches not 16 so although this looks like this might be able to be saved and reused the fact is it'll be a lot easier for us to just start from scratch and put everything exactly where we want it so we're gonna leave this in place for now because there is a p-trap full of water but tomorrow when we start to redo the plumbing we'll cut open the floor a little bit and cut this pipe off and we're going to establish a brand new plumbing system here for the drain I know it's a bit of a fight you know you'd like to be able to save something if you can but in the long run you're gonna cause yourself a lot of problem and this kind of stuff should not be attached to your tub under pressure don't try to ever force it in there that's a sure way to make it leak okay so if you like this kind of content tips and tricks to renovate your home give us a thumbs up if you got questions about renovations in your house put them in the comments below we have some everyday talk to you [Music] you

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Id: 1xHeYVUQxD8

Length: 32min 1sec (1921 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 07 2018