One of the worst rooms to take apart ended up being our small bathroom. This is one of the rooms we had left to last, and one weekend Markus and I tackled it. This room was mostly covered with the industrial diamond shaped wire I described before, and plaster. The upper part of the wall all away around the room and the ceiling were done in this manner, which meant that we had to rip and struggled with the crap for quite awhile. After we had removed the majority of this wire, we realized the bottom portion of the walls had been covered with plaster and cement directly. We attempted to chip this off entirely until we realized that the plaster/cement would not come off easily and in most cases would take the brick behind with it. This is when Markus decided that we could only chip off the first layer (approximately 2 inches) and would have to leave the rest on the wall. Markus being the good guy he is, sat for a few hours and chipped away at this crap with a chisel and hammer.
The next surprise we found in this little bathroom was when we went to remove the tile on the floor. Again we realized that chipping away the tile by itself was a ridiculous idea as it came out piece by piece. After we put a sledge hammer to a part of the floor and investigated further, we found that somebody had poured at least 4 inches on concrete to make the bathroom floor before putting tile on. Our only assumption was that someone was attempting to make a bomb shelter, or assumed that there would be a lot of water spilling on the floor, because otherwise there really is no rational explanation. Again, Markus took on the job of chipping out the 4 inches of concrete over a series of days, and finally the bathroom was clear.
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