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Showing posts with label remodel before. Show all posts
Showing posts with label remodel before. Show all posts

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Boys Bathroom Part9: Demo Last Touches

Did I enter a time warp here?


Several setbacks delayed that last pieces of demo. (sickness, diy depression, kids stuff). But the last pieces got finished with a few minor disasters

The bucket under the tub faucet fills up every 2-3 days. Guess what happens when you forget to empty it? Water water everywhere. Totally forgot to empty it for like 6 days. But got the dehumidifier from the garage and everything eventually got dry




The last thing before the tub went in was to remove the thinset from the floor. I think I cried.

A word about this chisel tool. The hand guard cost 2 extra dollars. I guarantee it saved me several hundred in medical bills. I whacked the guard at least 10 times - so that's at least ten times my fingers did not get smashed!!


But now the rebuild can begin!

Saturday, February 2, 2013

Boys Bathroom Part 1: Intro

Boys Bathroom - Remodeling


Why the remodel:

1) Strange water issue. Take a bath and the hallway will flood. A LOT OF &*#@ WATER.  This is bizarre and plumber couldn't find a leak but no more investigation could be done with out ripping behind the shower wall. So that was put on hold until now.

2) Leaking cracked tub and high water bills. The spout in the tub is dripping. At night after the kids have taken their showers I pull up the lever (that thing that switches from tub to shower - have no idea what that's called). The tub itself was refinished ( the guy did a horrible job ) and now its flaking up.










3) Tile grout is disintegrating. Probably helped along by the mysterious water









4) Its boring and ugly and has aqua walls when I painted for the Nemo theme (cute before, not so much now).  Ok the Nemo light switch is still cute and the little fishes hanging on the wall are neat!

And these pics are after I ripped down the Nemo wallpaper border!






Why I'm doing this (mostly) myself :

1) ... I'm anal retentive...

2) I don't have the time to wait around for workers to be late and not show up. I don't understand why everyone doesn't have a detailed schedule of their day.. sigh..

3)  A friend suggested this. She was all like "Its sooo easy, just do it yourself".  Of course this is coming from someone handy and experienced in DIY. She offered to help, but I think its one of those cases were afterwards she's cursing herself saying "why oh why did I say that...I just wont answer the phone..."

4) I really don't have anything better to do. Might as well learn a new trade.