Master Bath Remodel

[Steve Southwood]

I am not feeling much love for the shelves myself. If you could have the shower head above the shelves, then maybe. I would be worried about a leak in the grout at some time or another.

You could run the shelves towards the commode and do a blind system for towels. Use a door to match the new cabinets and have a roll out/ pull out. I think I would still put my plumbing valves at that end, so I could access shut offs for them.

Just kickin ideas. What ever you and yours decides will be fine I am sure.

[Darren Wright]

Yeah, I've had some reservations about the shelves, at least the lower ones, I was thinking the top one might work fine and maybe do some frosted safety glass that either slides side to side or a single piece that flips up (using hardware). I've also started searching the 72" tubs to see if there is one that would work in the space. I think we both like the free-standing ones, but have concerns that they will be a pain to clean around and weight becomes an issue as it's only the floor doing the support at that point. I also can't do the shower ring without considerable alterations to the ring, the ceiling is sloped in that room.

[Ken Cook]

Personally, I like the shelves idea, a quick image search shows a lot of them looking awesome...I can't see where worries about grout leaks would be any more frequent, tile job says it all...but then again, I've no experience with 'em.

[Bill Arnold]

Looks like a good plan, Darren. Having been through a master bath remodel recently, it's no fun for a while! Like you, I modeled it in SketchUp. I worked on the layout and details for weeks, but it was worth the effort. We really enjoy the changes we made - wish we had done it sooner!

[Darren Wright]

And it's begun...

Was planning to do just the tub this weekend since we're using the bath during the remodel, but things didn't quite go as planned.

Had started to just take up the rows of tile that I needed to remove to set the tub and was going to do the tiles under the toilet later, but after seeing how much mess it was taking up just the tub area I decided to yank the toilet and just git-r-done.



Next was removal of the shower and taking down the drywall around where the tub will go.


Keep in mind the fake blood was from the 2010 halloween party. My wife is wanting it gone by the 2012 party.


I found this to be the most interesting part of the previous work done. The faucet has always wiggled a lot and could tell that the valve was loose, but in fact, they just didn't fasten it to anything. They ran the lines using soft copper, but hot and cold lines are backwards. The part that really got me is the fact they drilled for the line to run over at the lower part, but cut the stud for the valve. The wall is the main supporting wall for the roof, we have a vaulted ceiling on each side of that wall that supports the roof. I'll be adding two new studs, one on each side of the lines feeding to the valve (which is getting replace too)


Oh, did you notice the electrical outlet under the valve? Will be moving that a couple of studs over.


Since we only have one other toilet in the house I decided to put the toilet back. Couldn't find any linoleum remnants so ended up grabbing a piece of wallboard for $12 to keep the mrs. happy...it's temporary, but necessary.


As we stand as this point. Will get the wall restructured, outlet moved, new valve installed, tub set, and get ready for tile around the tub this week. Will be picking up materials to start the new vanity and linen cabinet this week too.


Probably going to be hurting tomorrow as well as not feeling well since I'm allergic to mold/mildew. Had a slight leak on the corner of the shower apparently, can see the result on that pic above with the dry rot on the floor. I did wear a mask the whole time and got down some mold inhibitor for the couple of areas I found it, luckily it's surface only and didn't do any damage, just looks nasty.

[Ken Cook]

BTDT



you have my sympathy

[Rob Keeble]

Its amazing the things that seem to come out of renos. Looks like you got a good start. The great thing about the housing technology here is how easy it is to do this kind of work here. Consider what that would be like if the walls were all brick and plaster. Angle grinder chisel and more dust than you can imagine. Especially with certain types of bricks. Cost of work just rockets. Was even worse before they brought out the solid core cables that are now allowed to be run along the brick surface and plastered over. But to do that the cable is aluminum wrapped prior to pvc so its still more expensive than what we use here. Still on an alteration you gotta chase the plaster to run the cable in the surface and if the house was relatively new and done that way you have no idea if you gonna go cutting through the existing stuff under the plaster. Simply put its a mess of a system.

I like the barley hops you drink. Would have needed a few after that job. Should help keep the mold bugs at bay. At least that would be my excuse.

[Brent Dowell]

Nothing like a demo to get started on a project!

[Steve Southwood]

So uh, you done yet?

[larry merlau]

i was gonna say in the earlier pics that i missed the blood stains but i see you showed them finally,, its really enlightening to go to a restroom in a strangers home and see that on the wall,, but you need to look at who your dealing with i was gonna suggest you not have shelves where water can collect either,, also what about drawers that would come out for the possible plumbing work in the future like steve mentioned..and also darren you dont want to go to far in this as you want to make money not spend it,,