Demolition for New Bathroom Construction

"We are going to talk a little bit about the demolition that we had to do to get started with this project. As you can see this wall along here has been exposed. You can see the 2x6 construction. We came in and decided where the new door should be into our bathroom and picked this spot. Then we decided that we had to take the paneling down, rip off the drywall and then decide what size door we wanted to put into our bathroom. We picked a 30 inch door because our bathroom is only 5x7 and we needed all the space we could get for everything we are putting in here. We cut a rough hole in the wall here which will eventually become a 30 inch flat paneled entry door into our bathroom. Once we cut the hole for our door we came in and we decided we better rip off all the dry wall from both walls. We had some electrical that we needed to move, we had gas lines that needed to be moved and there was a lot of holes in the walls from all the shelving that hung on the walls we decided that since we needed to move all this stuff anyway it would just be easier to remove all the dry wall and get all of our utilities moved and then when we come back we will put new green dry wall back up to replace it. Once the dry wall was removed I rented what you call a demolition hammer which is a miniature jack hammer and I had to chisel out the concrete floor. Once I realized where we were going to put the shower and the toilet I drew a line on the floor and I got my demolition hammer out and we started to cut holes in the floor. You can probably see that I have cut a channel in the floor here. We have to be 12 and 1/2 inches from our studded wall to the center of our toilet flange so that when we are all finished and we set the toilet back in place it will fit with just enough space behind the water tank and the dry wall. So I measured out a little over 12 inches and we started removing the concrete. Once we laid out where I needed the hole we began to break out the concrete. This concrete has been here so long it took a long time to chisel out this concrete. Then we found out that underneath the concrete the original construction people had back filled oh gosh, about two feet worth of dirt/rock/sand composition called AB and that all had to be removed down to about 19 inches. You can see the existing pipes that we have and of course they had to run right through the channel that I was cutting to add my sewer pipe so I needed to be very careful with my demolition hammer not to cut through these pipes and create more work for myself so as I was using the hammer I would cut down two or three inches or so and then I would stop, break the concrete away, once I found these pipes I knew I had to be careful the rest of the way. This pipe right here ran straight across here and I had to re-route that because it ran right through my toilet drain. I don't know if you can see but I added a 45, some more copper pipe, and then back here we tied back into the original pipe."