First the good news. On ripping out the last of the kitchen walls, we uncovered the backs of the fibro sheets in the bathroom and found a big green stamp saying "No Asbestos used in this product". There's a $4000 saving right there! So we hired another chippie for 2 weeks to speed things up, as the 3 week deadline is approaching fast.
Now for the bad news. The bathroom is a soggy stinking rotten mess! All the studs, bearers and joists along the back wall have rotted away. There was a 'repair' done on the bath taps with Duct tape and then tiled over, so for many years there's been water leaking into the wall cavity. The whole back corner of the house isn't even attached to the ground. The floor on the laundry side is timber, but the floor on the bathroom side is a 30cm thick concrete slab poured onto corrugated iron that's resting on some bricks.
Our bathroom floor
The wall of death
A stalagmite on the hot tap inside the wall cavity
The duct tape repair
There's no way it will be ready for us in 3 weeks! I think we'll seal it up and forget about it over Christmas and make a plan for the new year. Luckily there's a beautiful bathroom in the old laundry in the back yard! We'll bathe outside for summer and aim for an indoor one by Easter.
At least there's somewhere to hang the towels
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