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Finally, drywall!

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It's been about a month since we started the bathroom. After a few weekends of one or another of us being sick, Bill whipped through the plumbing and electric in record time with minimal cursing and only two burns. He may hate it, but he can rock out some plumbing when he needs to. This weekend, we each took a vacation day Friday, dropped Ruth off at day care like usual, then did as much as we could before we had to pick her up. By dinner today, we got through a first coat of drywall mud/taping. Excellent!

It is so different with the new layout and the raised ceiling - you will not recognize it!

ETA, some progress pics, pre-floor and pre-drywall:


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