It has taken me two days to completely demo out the old shower.  Yep.  Two full days (well, in between ballet classes, volunteering at school, running carpool and keeping house).Taking down tile, a half wall and a super heavy fiberglass shower pan takes a lot of time.  Going from here to here is a marathon, not a sprint.   The demo revealed some things about the construction of this shower that make me even MORE happy with my decision to rip it all out.   The tile work was terrible.  There was a big gap between the last row of tile and the shower pan which has just become a moisture collector and has lead to a little mold farm down there. Bleck:
A little refresher about how the shower and knee wall looked before:

First step was tearing out the knee wall. I needed to figure out exactly what was housed inside (hoping there was no plumbing in there):

A few layers later and I realized it was EMPTY!! The whole thing could go!   This was also my chance to take down the glass shower walls:
Doesn't it seem so much more open without the brass frame and oversized pony wall?

After the walls were out I started tackling the tile.  That was a LOT of pounding.

By the end of Day one I was left with this:
 And a whole lot of trash in the garage:





Money Spent So Far:  ZERO!