I don't carpentry, plumbing and electrical work, but tile and drywall are beyond me. I fix that stuff with the mastercard 
Looks great, keep the pictures coming!
I don't carpentry, plumbing and electrical work, but tile and drywall are beyond me. I fix that stuff with the mastercard
Looks great, keep the pictures coming!
floor grouted
tub surround tiles done less a few around the edges of the ceiling, will finish those in morning with fast setting thinset and grout the whole deal.
wall tiles. i wanted a touch of old school since the house is over 100 years old but i threw my twist in it, and carried the glass/marble through the white squares around the room. on the right you can see where the vanity is going with the marble/glass to the ceiling.
tomorrow will be an exciting day, as i will be able to put the toilet back in! it's getting too cold to pee outside.
the floor was particularly tedious. due to using the fast setting thinset, i had to lay out the entire floor, cut all the edge pieces, then take it up in halves. i laid half out on cardboard and transferred all the pieces over after i spread the thinset. then did the same for the other half.
Looks great.
Is the toilet flange flush with the tile? What light did you use in the shower? Where are you getting the vanity?
Does the drywall get screwed to the studs, sanded and then the tile goes directly on that? What kind of drywall did you use?
flange a hair above tile. i used an insulation contact rated can fixture and have a wet location LED light to go in it. building vanity myself. yes drywall over studs, finished, tiled on. greenboard is supposedly "moisture resistant". the shower area is cement backer board and the seams are all taped and mudded with mortar.
waiting for a phone call before i go to finish the last couple tiles. murphy's law says as soon as i mix my quick dry mortar the phone will ring and i'll have to sit down in front of the computer for a while.
Looks like you'll be waste-product ready after you pull your reference board, finish tiling the wall, and lay in the toilet. I like when I find a toilet flange just proud of the floor. Any $1.50 wax ring will work. That way, I get all four inches of pipe diameter which means less plunging and augering over the life of the install.
What's the drain vent situation for the lav sink?
patgizz wrote: flange a hair above tile. i used an insulation contact rated can fixture and have a wet location LED light to go in it. building vanity myself. yes drywall over studs, finished, tiled on. greenboard is supposedly "moisture resistant". the shower area is cement backer board and the seams are all taped and mudded with mortar. waiting for a phone call before i go to finish the last couple tiles. murphy's law says as soon as i mix my quick dry mortar the phone will ring and i'll have to sit down in front of the computer for a while.
Thanks, I'm trying to learn over here. Looking forward to this vanity build!
Jerry From LA wrote: What's the drain vent situation for the lav sink?
has a tee in the line under the floor to the stack. it worked so not messing with it.
1 box of grout down. number 2 is in the bucket slaking right now. such a silly term for "let it sit then remix it in 10 minutes" i think i'll be going to the store for another. number one did the shower ceiling, the valve wall, and about 1/3 of the back wall. i am hoping number two finishes the shower, so that'll dry enough to put the doors on later.
back to the grout mine. my hands hate me. need to get as much done today as possible because back to work tomorrow.
What are those floor tiles? We haven't come up with anything we like and those look very interesting.
I'm enjoying reading this. You having to run to HD for more stuff makes me feel just a bit better for all of the times I've had to do the same thing. I always thing "I bet people who are good at this don't have this problem." Maybe I was wrong. 
mazdeuce wrote: What are those floor tiles? We haven't come up with anything we like and those look very interesting.
Agreed! They look great. Remind me of alligator skin! 
http://www.wayfair.com/Blocks-12-x-12-Unpolished-Stone-Mosaic-Tile-in-Grey-XQ3RGY-PBTL1051.html
they look exactly as pictured when you get them. i used a sealer/color enhancer prior to grout and will reapply it now that the grout is cured.
for a project this large, i have not been to the store much. going now to pick up the kids and get more grout for the walls. generally speaking, we carry a small hardware store on wheels with us. minor plumbing/electric/etc is all on hand.
patgizz wrote:Jerry From LA wrote: What's the drain vent situation for the lav sink?has a tee in the line under the floor to the stack. it worked so not messing with it.
As long as you can snake the drain later, it's good.
patgizz wrote: http://www.wayfair.com/Blocks-12-x-12-Unpolished-Stone-Mosaic-Tile-in-Grey-XQ3RGY-PBTL1051.html they look exactly as pictured when you get them. i used a sealer/color enhancer prior to grout and will reapply it now that the grout is cured. for a project this large, i have not been to the store much. going now to pick up the kids and get more grout for the walls. generally speaking, we carry a small hardware store on wheels with us. minor plumbing/electric/etc is all on hand.
Decent website to order from? We're shopping for a vanity and all the big box stuff is pretty cheesy. You ordere
went very smooth. ordered at night, had the tiles in 2 days very well packed. each case came in a bigger box with packing peanuts surrounding it.
i'd definitely order from them again. and they gave me a $5 credit toward my next order for reviewing the tiles.
walls grouted, and the king's throne has been returned to its rightful place and tested. i tossed the new door up around midnight then went to bed. had to go do real work today, tore a few hundred feet of water damaged baseboard out and cut/painted all new stuff. when i got to the customer's house i had an "i don't want to do this anymore" moment, then i got in the zone with my music and my miter saw and killed it.
i love how the shower walls reflect off the gloss white ceiling
my cabinbet doors came today too, theyre waiting over at my parents house. will head over there this weekend to build cabinets in my dad's shop.
Very very impressive work!!
I need to keep my wife away from this thread. I don't want he to have expectations this high. Good work.
medicine cabinet slid right into the wall, rear destructions for the tub door. can't wait to get those up, going to seal the grout tomorrow after work and hopefully get those up and everything caulked. then i get to crawl underneath to hook up the tub drain 
fingers literally dead from the grouting, i don't wear gloves and am paying for it with dry cracked fingertips. hurts like hell to type with most of them or do any work. and i keep making typos.
patgizz wrote: fingers literally dead from the grouting, i don't wear gloves and am paying for it with dry cracked fingertips. hurts like hell to type with most of them or do any work. and i keep making typos.
Bag Balm. http://www.bagbalm.com/
Formulated to cure cracked cow teats from milking machine irritation in cold weather.
Slather your hands up with lotion (leave it messy) and then put gloves on over it (nirtile or surgical type) for awhile. I have found that to be the best hand recovery.
I hate the greasy feeling of lotion, even the non-greasy ones. The gloves let me do things and not think about it and do seem to enhance the effectiveness.
old bathroom fit on my dad's little trailer, it's in the dumpster now. that's the side of my house seldom seen by anyone but us as it's opposite the driveway and everyone is always over to look at car stuff.
2 customer jobs completed. had a kitchen with 3 piece 6" tall moulding around the top. that took a while, never worked with those pieces before. 2" tall trim that overlapped the top of the cabinets, 6" tall with a big bead at the bottom, then crown. what a pain.
today is cabinet day. spent the morning in my dad's wood shop cutting all the pieces. just got home, forgot my house keys in his garage, had to credit card my way into the house. have my box plywood laid out in the living room, time to get to work
Criminy. I wish I had some sort of skill at this sort of thing. Thankfully the day job pays enough so I can get people to do it for me, because there is no way I would be any good at it.
Harvey wrote: Criminy. I wish I had some sort of skill at this sort of thing. Thankfully the day job pays enough so I can get people to do it for me, because there is no way I would be any good at it.
yeah, me too ... and what's the most embarrassing is that was what my Dad was great at ... his hobby was wood working ... in home repairs, pretty much of any kind, outside of the heating system, or soldering/water system were nothing to him ...
wish I had inherited some of those skills
Nobody is born knowing how to do this. It's a combination of someone showing you things and just good old fashioned practice. You need to be willing to frost a few ugly cakes along the way.
Can't wait to see the cabinets go together.
linen cabinet box
pocket screws ftw.
building the vanity faceframe
waiting for polyurethane to dry. more is done than the pics show, but what fun is showing stuff halfway?
also, when building cabinets out of 3/4 plywood, the boxes get heavy fast. so back pain.
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