What a Mess!

So what do you do when 2 plumbers, 3 contractors and a chemist can't find the source of the water dripping through the family room ceiling? You gut the shower in the bathroom on the 2nd floor directly above. And what do you do when said shower tile matches the tub's tile? Gut that too of course! So that is just what we are doing.
Today is day 3 into the gut project and I can't wait for it to be complete. Having no functioning shower in the master bath wasn't nearly as stressful as all of this dust filling the house. And the kicker of it is that the plumbers ruled out the pipes and we know the water is only dripping when the shower has been running for a while but we have no certain answer of as to how the water was getting out of the shower. The best answer is it must have been a weakness where the shower pan met with the wall and the vertical and horizontal door tracks. With all new tile, shower pan, shower doors and knowing it was done correctly this better have solved the mystery. Here are some pictures of the chaos. I am going to try to track the daily progress for the next 2 weeks or until it is done.

Before the major ripout:

Here are the holes from where all the sheet rock was wet & dripping water into the family room ceiling that was just painted 5 months ago.


Here's a picture of where the tile had been removed because the dry wall behind it was wet. The additional hole in the wall was trying to figure out where the water was coming from.

And here's what the bathroom looked like before the contractor gutted it on Monday morning.


Here is what it looked like by lunch time on Monday

This is the water damage that was under the shower pan (the darkness in the lower right hand corner)

and the water damage on the vertical 2x4 behind the shower door track


and here is what it looked like by the end of Tuesday




Today we spent a lot of time figuring out tile placement and putting the puzzle together but Scott (the contractor) has just started putting up the tile. Welcome to our nightmare!