I went to Home Depot today at lunch - closer to the office then Lowe's, and wanted to see if they had metal edge that would work on our odd angles on the one side of the furnace room. They had some vinyl stuff - turns out it isn't exactly right, so back to Lowe's for flexible metal paper corner tape (makes more sense when you see it...).
Anyway - standing in line behind three guys in a crew that I mentally tagged Larry, Darryl and his other brother Darryl (those of you as old as me or older get that one...) and I suddenly thought (can't imagine what triggered this in my mind...) - "Self, if the ex-contractors were so proud of having the bathroom exhaust fan fixture up and "working" (i.e. the light came on and the fan ran), why did they put the ceiling up before they ran the vent to the outside for it?" Now, granted - it is probably harder then putting the fixture in, and they did avoid anything even remotely resembling hard - but I kind of thought it was going to be harder to try and saw a hole through the wall and run a flexible duct four feet once the bathroom ceiling was up. Checking around with one or two others, they shared my opinion. So I decided to find out...as Buns will tell you, I tend to be curious and I get a little fixated on things sometimes.
Took the large panel in the bathroom ceiling out. Get the ladder and the flashlight (because I had turned off the breaker for the bathroom - not completely dim), and what do I see?
Well, two things - first, they put the fan between the joists where a rather large cable runs to feed outlets upstairs. Not a real biggy - plenty of space to the right of it to go through the joist. But take a close look at the tabs on top of the light to the left. Can't see it really well, but - that is where the adapter for the round ductwork snaps in. So - surprise, surprise - they mounted it 180 degrees from where it should have been. A few screws and some well-placed curses later, I had it turned around and facing the right way. Just put it loosely up there; when I am not so tired tomorrow or this weekend, I will put the ductwork on and put it through the wall. Then we can put a new ceiling up - since the one I took down was full of holes they had punched in it by missing the joists when screwing it up (literally....) to the joists and all chipped around the edges. Mud might help, but I am assuming that the crew from Sunday can probably make short (proper) work of all the bathroom drywall.
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