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Sunday, May 15, 2011
Phil & Fernanda's Bathroom Renovations Part 1
Greetings from wet and soggy Montreal! For weeks now we have awaited eagerly for those first warm days that change the city almost overnight from a grey and ugly jumble of brick and concrete into the bright green boulevards and parks that suddenly burst into life with the colourful blossoms of trees and flowers that make this such a beautiful place. The sun did shine for a few days but we are back into the rainy cycle again and no reprieve I guess for all those people flooded out by the swollen Richelieu River and Lake Champlain, a flood zone covering the area between Montreal's south shore down to the New York border. I managed to get out to our property this past week and, at 2100 feet above sea level, everything was dry and dusty, a far cry from those people south of us. Here in Montreal though we have a few minor water incursions to fix but the main project going on at the moment is the complete makeover of Phil and Fer's bathroom. They are doing all the work themselves, from the demolition to putting in all new plumbing and electrical, putting up new walls, installing new fixtures and lights, and taping and painting, My job, other than a few comments, some grunt work when needed and a little advise not always taken, will be putting in the ceramic tiles around the shower enclosure and floor. But in the meantime alot of hard work and sweat have gone into this first major project Phil and Fer have done together here in our duplex. The following pictures will give you some idea of the task they had to face in a bathroom from 1924!
