made some measurements and did some planning...
made a shopping list...
window guy finally came and took the window out...
...and put an aluminum frame window in.
i did a lot of demolition after he left...
bought a hepa filter cause my boogies turned white from all the dry wall dust...
finished demolition next day and hauled 250 lbs of 3' x 5' cement boards back in my lovely camry...
barely managed to carry them in...
spent half an hour scoring and cutting a single piece of cement board using this dinky utility knife...
put up my first piece of cement board...
and left it this way since.