Bathroom Day 8: Cleanup and the End of the Foundation Repairs

I had to return to work, but my husband stayed home to supervise the foundation guys. They finished up by filling in the basement trench with concrete and backfilling around the exterior walls. Considering that temperatures went up to 35 degrees Celsius over the past week, they did a great job keeping on schedule. We hope this solves the water problems and we can look towards someday having a finished basement again.

We decided to rent a dumpster to dispose of all the garbage from the reno. My husband spent the day loading it, putting tools away and trying to tame the chaos in the house. The bathroom is now at a state of 95% completion. Still to be done is painting, sealing the tile and putting up towel bars, which should all get done over the next week.

And now we know: we are capable of doing a big renovation project ourselves! It was an ambition project but we learnt a lot and produced a professional looking bathroom (without too much fighting!)