Saturday, March 1, 2008

Bathroom, Feel My WRATH!

The bathroom is unusable and disgusting. The main causes are as follows:
  • Clawfoot tub is built into a tiled plywood box, tiles are falling off.
  • Carpet on floor holds moisture, allows sub floor to rot and be spongy nasty.
  • All fixtures and surfaces are from the 60's rental house period.
       What to do? Tear it all out! After a few hours of pounding, prying and gagging everything was down to studs and joists, the toilet was removed and the OG clawfoot tub relocated to the kitchen to hold tools. It is SOOOO heavy.
       I replumbed the sink and toilet in their new locations as dictated by Hali's cad drawing ;)
Hali wanted white subway tile so we decided to put the clawfoot back in a tiled box. New 5/8" ply on the floor joist with 1/4" hardibacker cemented on top. The walls got 1/2" hardibacker 4' high and green rock for the rest.
       It took many late nights (even after we moved in) to finish the tile. A lot of the delay was due to Lowes backorder stuff, but we finally made it. For my first real tiling job I'm pretty happy.

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