Well since I last checked in, I've sanded and smoothed all the drywall in the hallways, bedrooms, living room and part of the bathroom with the kitchen and remaining bathroom parts to do later. After laboring weeknight to do that fairly on my own, I had Kevin and my brother Mark come over for the demo of the flooring throughout the whole apartment. We took up the carpet and carpet padding and discovered that we'd need to re-level the living room subfloor since the previous owners had done a poor job after an attempted fix after some water damage.
Kevin and I demoed the remainder of the bathroom walls that we'll replace with mold-resistant green board, and had some fun doing it until I idiotically let a piece of drywall fall onto the water shut off from the bathroom vanity. Water immediately spewed out at me and hit me in the knees before I ran to the basement for the main water shut off. We replaced it the same day and dried out the bathroom floor, but man this is probably one of those stories that I'll always remember about DIYing.
When my brother was still here we also took down the kitchen side of the bathroom wall after we discovered that it had a severe twist/bend. It turns out some rocket scientist didn't put the stud in plum (up and down) in line with the other studs, so the drywall screwed to it resembled an S as it made it's way down the wall. We'll shim it to be straight and put more green board around the back of where the cabinets/kitchen sink will go.
We took out the awkward boxed in framing around the window and corner of the kitchen, and I'm going to have the boiler guy re-route the line within the wall this time and out of the way like it should have been from the start. In the process of taking it down we took a corner of the drop ceiling along with it. Once we saw what was above the kitchen ceiling, which is noting but air, and saw that the framing goes all the way up to the joists, we're strongly considering taking down the rest of the drop ceiling in the kitchen and raising the ceiling 2 feet just in this room. We'll drywall to the joists (or at least to the metal noise-cancelling clips), put sound insulation, and put a ceiling fan in the middle of the room to make it more appealing.
After discovering the bad subfloor in the living room my dad and I also went ahead and replaced it with a really solid base for our new flooring.
The pictures should tell the story that I just described:
Drywall dusted carpet:
Carpet demo:
Kitchen demo:
Pictures inside the kitchen ceiling:
Most of the subfloor is good to go:
But had to take the water rotted stuff out of the living room:
New subfloor going down:
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