Son of Monster Garage

So, as you will have recalled reading, we started again this spring on Monster Garage after a winter hiatus.  Well....it seems that we have spawned another Monster project, this time at the Regina condo...called Son of Monster Garage!

We own a condo in Regina where Rob lives during the week while he works, and then he commutes to Saskatoon on the weekends, or I come down, or we meet at the lake.

Rob comes home to the condo after the May long weekend, and notices a musty, wet dog smell.  He walks around the condo and ...squish...he steps in wet carpet in the living room by the pony wall/kitchen.  Hmmm...he calls the building manager and it turns out that the next door neighbour's dishwasher had leaked and flooded into our condo and living room carpet.  So the insurance inspector comes, and they cut out a 6 x6 foot of wet carpet and bring in a de-humidifier to dry out the condo (and the black mold that is forming). 

This runs for a few days and the wall is still leaking water.  So they come back and discover that the water is leaking into the kitchen lino and cupboards.  And they also discover asbestos in the drywall compound (now asbestos is fine as long as you don't disturb it, but when they come to replace the drywall, they will have to take special precautions i,e. hazmat suits!).

Rob is quite excited about this turn of events because he had always wanted to replace the carpet with hardwood--so we'll do that and pay the difference.  And that goes ditto for the kitchen lino and cupboards.

Meanwhile, the water is still leaking out of the wall, so they come back again and cut into the drywall behind the kitchen sink, and find holes the size of loonies in the copper sewer (grey water) line we share with the neighbours.  So out that comes.

Now here's the kicker....somehow....that "leak" has made its way to the closet, bathroom, and bedroom doors, as well as the bathroom lino and bathroom sink counter!  Well, the leak actually didn't but it was a good excuse for Rob to do even more renos, since we were already doing some, why not tack on a few more!  So, he had always disliked the floor to ceiling bi-fold doors of the closets, and the doors to the rooms used to be floor to ceiling as well, but were just filled in at the tope with an odd panel.  SO...Rob decided to replace the doors, and put in proper headers over the doors--thus he would build the new frame and drywall, and when the drywall team was in the condo doing the wall repairs, they could just mud and tape Rob's new walls, and we pay the extra.

This meant a trip to Rona to buy lumber and drywall and doors.  And to get the lumber cut.  And to spend one hour in the Rona parking lot after it closed, cutting the drywall ourselves because the drywall sheets wouldn't fit in my car and we didn't want dust all over the condo.

So we hauled 3 doors and 2 closet bi-folds up 6 floors in the elevator:

The cut lumber:

And here is the hall closet newly-made header:

And the bedroom closet header:



Oh I forgot to mention that Rob also thought it would be a good time to move some electrical plugs to better locations, and new ones.  So he's been in contact with an electrician to come by some time.

So we have Monster Garage in Saskatoon, Son of Monster Garage in Regina, and Lake Monster renos.  We have renovations going on in three cities.  It never is boring!