Bathroom Demo & More Cleaning

So last week was scrub yank scrub... I took Tuesday and Friday afternoon off and we got some hardcore stuff done, like ripping out the top four layers of flooring in the dining room and hallway. And mind you, for all the half assed stuff they did to the house, they wanted to make sure that the #%&*@ floor was going to stay in place, under the linoleum glue was the first layer of 1/8"plywood, glued and stapled every 2", under that was 1/4" plywood screwed with 2" drywall screws AND staples, of which half the screws were either stripped out or rusted, and under that another 1/2 layer of plywood with its very own set of 2" screws set every 2". We resorted to cutting the layers with the circular saw into 2' squares, and yanking them up with a crow bar and getting it up in chunks .... lather, rinse repeat for a 11'X18' room and a 7'X5' hallway. under this lovely concoction are three layers of asphalt tiles - first peacock blue pebble pattern, over a fire engine red pebble pattern, over a cream and brown with gold speckled pebble pattern, over a very sorry, tired and rotted oak floor. Th immediate plan is to put wall to wall carpet over the tile and later we will replace the oak floor with the salvaged planks we got from our Long Beach Neighbor.
After all that entertainment, we dug into the bathroom, discovering that 3/4 of the floor is rotted, along with the lower portions of the wall - We also found two more rats nests and the remains of one occupant, so Steve had to do the rodent disposal detail while I went elsewhere.
Over the weekend, we made a trip up to Long Beach to exchange the commode base, to the great amusement of the service desk of Orchard Supply - "You mean to tell me you drove ALL the way from San Diego for THIS....?" We also went to the Long Beach house to get all my power tools for this weeks bathroom floor replacement and rewiring project. The bathroom light has never worked for some reason, and since it is part of the original 1910 wiring, I am going to bypass it an hook into the new outlet wiring an add an overhead exhaust fan in the process. When the house was rewired, they only redid the outlets, running metal conduits through the floors, but left all the overheads on the original wiring. So the plan is room by room to replace the overhead wiring and at the same time put the outlets inside the wall instead of mounted on the walls. Since we have the bathroom walls open, I am going to also redo the outlets in the bedrooms and hallway walls adjoining it.
I also had my first paint removal sucess with the hardware, I had read that if you boiled water with baking soda, and dropped the painted hardware, the paint comes right off. So I tried it and wow, does it work well! It also made it easier to polish it afterwards. So, the goal by the end of this week is to have the new bathroom floor done and the new wiring done... Lets see how we do!!