Whiskey Bottle

Last Monday evening I stopped by the condo and met the contractor to unload the tiles from my car that I had purchased the day before. The contractor, Damian, cleared up some wood from the empty wall space next in the corner of the bathroon and discovered behind the studs in the corner an empty bottle of whiskey, covered with dust!



It must have been one of the workers who was working on this building in the old days and he wanted to hide his bottle of whiskey after finishing it. :) The building was built in 1947, so 64 years ago.

Talking about tiles, I got ceramic tiles for the bathroom. They are beige. I thought I couldn't go wrong with this color. I also got a liner that will go horizontally on the wall through the bathtub surrounding wall, and will be repeated on the top portion of the bathtub wall. The porcelain tiles are now in. The glazed tiles are not that in anymore. These are not porcelain but they aren't shiny either, so they look similar to porcelain. They are made in Spain.



This week, the following things have been completed:

• Demo of the shower room


• Removal of door frame from the kitchen wall


• Plumbing for bathroom and kitchen


• Gas pipe redone for kitchen

Here are a few more pictures that show the progress of the project.


New extension to the gas pipe.


The two old cast iron water pipes that go to the upper unit have been removed from the wall and ceiling because they are no longer in use. The whole building is now using copper pipes.



Door frame has been removed.


It remains to be seen if we can use this vent for the kitchen hood. This wasn't used by the previous owner and was covered with sheetrock.