Scraping is finished!

Sometime yesterday, early afternoon, I finished scraping the last of the adhesive off. I weighed the garbage bag -- about 15 pounds of adhesive, from just 2 ½ walls. I am pretty confident that, after a bit of sanding, those walls will be completely ready for their second set of tiling. 

Both walls denuded

East wall

West wall, emptied of tile and adhesive

I was pretty psyched about this milestone. My wrist hurt from all the scraping, but still, pretty psyched. So I sat down to figure out my offset flange, and almost immediately, EG came in and explained to me that it wouldn't work.

Stupid humans -- I can *smell* that this won't fly

(note the new register in the bottom right of the frame)

And he's right, of course. In a normal bathroom, this would have totally worked. But, once I sat down to actually look at it, I realized I'd not only have to break the old flange to remove it, I'd have to *also* break the original cast iron pipe that leads into the sewer line (I'd explain why, but it would take diagrams and it would be boring). My general rule is that I'm loathe to break vital infrastructure (plumbing, electricity, etc.) unless I'm absolutely sure I can restore it, and here I'm pretty sure I can't. That's okay -- the extra inch or inch and a half of legroom would be nice, but it isn't the end of the world. Having new toilet sink, floors and walls will have to do. 

Speaking of new floors, the tile was officially unboxed. Boy is that stuff well packed. 

Underneath the *six* layers of styrofoam padding is... another, smaller box, containing the actual tile. Which is also well padded. When laid out on the floor, it looks something like this:

Obviously, there's a bit more to it than that, and this picture doesn't reflect the more blue gray colors of the tile. But you get the idea. Some tile will have to be cut, for which I will need a tile cutter -- possibly a wet saw, which I have never used, so that could get interesting. The feed for the toilet looks like it will just need a small circle nipped out, so that shouldn't be too hard. The tiles are actually covering the main portion that needs cutting, which is the flange and sewer pipe. The parts nearest the door will fit under the door frame once I, uh, remove the door frame (I'll cut it to the proper length, and restore it afterwards, I promise!)

Afterwards I went out for a fried chicken dinner at Watson's with Brett K., and came back to discover Jim and Renée walking up to my door, and got to hang out with them for about an hour so it was a very social occasion. And even EG spent some quality time with me:

I will cut you if you continue to look at me, pitiful human.