My wife has been wanting a pocket door for our little bathroom that turned into a whole lot more. This is a project I have been successfully putting off for years and it has kept growing and growing. Last weekend I started it that required taking down the sheetrock on one side and removing studs without taking down the sheetrock on the other side. This required cutting nails between the drywall and studs with a 9" blade on my recipicating saw. This worked out okay except for where I accidently cut through the sheetrock a couple of times.
The pocket opening has to be twice the width of the door plus 1.25".
Today I was back on it early. I had to move a 3/4" copper hot water drain line that is a drain line for the pan under the hot water heater in the attic. I converted to PVC with a neat adapter and moved the line over past the pocket door space. I also had to move a light switch to an adjacent wall. These 2 things required going in the attic and in the crawlspace lugging several trips of tools. I am already sore! I finished this in 7 hours. After that I had to install a new larger header and I removed the tile flooring and top layer of 3/4" plywood too. These tasks took 3 hours.
Tomorrow I have to install a new wooden floor.
Next week, I'll install the pocket door track system and door then a new corner pedestal sink and new high rise, turbo flushing commode. I hope to have the whole project complete by Thanksgiving.
This project will cost around $550 when done since I already had the flooring that was left over from doing the living room and bedroom.
Don't you love these little projects?
Posted by: Sam Thompson
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