An alternative solution might be something like a non-opening clerestory-style thin window near the ceiling. Maybe with a painted steel frame you can paint. that way, you get some light value, privacy, and a good seal against dry rotting your shower framing.
Day 2 was spent sleeping too late, taking the kids to in-laws, and going to home depot. we filled 4 carts, had to call my parents to bring their van because i filled my express cargo van to the top. dropped just shy of $1800, then went back and spent another $72 a couple hours ago.
we got home around 1:15, then i walked around like a moron for an hour and a half getting tools together. my helper loaded my trailer like a 26 year old that was going to be off for a couple weeks on the last day we worked before christmas, so my tools are a mess and i can't find my pex fitting tub.
spent today finishing tearout(toilet, 3 walls behind toilet, floor, cut out floor around toilet to fix hacked out joist, began squaring the tub wall)
torn out to the studs and rafters
tried to get a shot of how out of square the room is
roof patch anyone?
toilet hole. the joists are 24" OC. for the toilet plumbing they hacked the joist to 3/4" thickness. so effectively had a 1x supporting the 4 foot span. no wonder the toilet was sunk and rocked/bounced.
toilet area fixed(mostly, missing a couple joist hangers and didn't feel like running out to the garage in the rain at 8:30). new 2x6 hung between the next joists over, then blocking between them to support the toilet. had to get down in the crawl space, which sucks. unfortunately to do the tub drain i will have to actually crawl in from the access door. i was hoping to set the tub and hook up the drain via the hole i cut around the toilet plumbing, but the blocking and joist repair was necessary to put my level plywood down for the tub to sit on.
i use real thinset, and will be using speedset or whatever the brand i got this time is called. there is about a 20 minute working time and it's ready for grout in 3 hours. i don't have time to let stuff set overnight, we currently have no toilet.
i also made the dumbest mistake of my life this evening. after i ran to home depot, knowing i have no toilet, i had taco bell.
tomorrow's plan is to get the floor cutout filled back in, finish framing the end walls to square, frame in the ceiling, set the tub, and get the mechanicals done. will see where i'm at after that. have to rough in my wires and supply plumbing, put in the fan and vent it to the outside, insulate, etc then i can level my subfloor.
more to come.
did op have to knock on the neighbor's door?
Or use the woods?
Is that really a license plate for a roof patch?
Hey, better taco bell than Chipotle...
Mad_Ratel wrote: did op have to knock on the neighbor's door? Or use the woods?
Recent HDepot trip...I'm guessing Homer Bucket.
You're a brave man to pull the one toilet. I remodeled my bathroom with the bowl in place, flushing with buckets of water. Clearly not an option for you. It did make me laugh that you had to run back to HD. Every plumbing project ever.
Damn. That old toilet was fun.
Remodeling the only bathroom in the house while living there ... that's adventurous.
Honestly, it's worth the sanity of just renting a port o john for aweek...
We remodeled our only bathroom years ago, good thing there was a Taco Bell just down the road. It was a one stop shop!!!!!!
We went without a toilet for a while while redoing our house but we were lucky because 50 yards away there is a softball field with a Porta john
please esplain
I know your pain remodeling the only bathroom in your house. I spent over a month with no shower, and several days with no toilet. Wife was not happy. We adopted the local Lowe's bathroom, since it was clean, usually not busy, and we were there anyway buying supplies. Showers came via washcloth and the kitchen sink sprayer, or at the gym. Been through the shotty previous owner repairs as well as rotted floors due to a leak. Looks like youre making great progress, keep it up!
Between the Squatty Potty dialogue and Taco Bell visit, I cannot stop laughing! Man, I need a new "household" project now that the garage is getting too cold to work in !!
Woody wrote: ...You'll never want to E36 M3 from 14.5 inches again.
So does that mean there's more, or less, danger of splash-back? Someone should doo a study... sorry. Okay, not really.
i set up a shower in the basement with a hose connected to the laundry tub, adapted to the old showerhead (ziptied to pipes), tarps ziptied to whatever was available, and a washing machine drain pan to stand in with the fitting installed in the corner, hanging over the edge of the sump hole. it works well. home depot is the place for #2 lumber and to take a #2. i'm a guy, i can pee outside behind a tree. my wife is not as willing to travel to a toilet, so she has gotten creative. there's a grocery store a mile away with clean bathrooms, but she can't leave the house without (makeup, shower, whatever). i'm used to being filthy and wearing dirty work clothes, it's what i do, so i could care less what i look like when i walk into a store. i'm always covered in some kind of dirt, drywall dust, paint, caulk, tile saw splatter, etc...
patgizz wrote: toilet hole. the joists are 24" OC. for the toilet plumbing they hacked the joist to 3/4" thickness. so effectively had a 1x supporting the 4 foot span. no wonder the toilet was sunk and rocked/bounced.
This would be where I would insert myself into the fetal position and rocked myself while repeatedly asking myself outloud, what have I done?
You are a brave man.
lnlogauge wrote: You are a brave man.
to be fair, i've been doing remodeling for a living since i was 14.
just got out of the shower, started at 9am and quit at 11pm. the squaring of the room has proven to eat much more wood than i was expecting, had to make a HD run for 9 more 2x4, 7 more 2x6, one 2x3, and one 1x4 plus some more framing screws for the stuff that i don't want to shoot with the big gun. and the last C3PO christmas decoration on clearance.
Today's progress: floor filled in, tub plywood leveled and installed, tub area framed, other wall squared, ceiling raftered, light over shower and fan roughed in. major cleanup, copper lines cut off below floor for removal later, new valves in basement, holes bored through the 8x8 hand hewn "sill plate" into the basement for the pex to keep the pipes out of the crawl space, and floor leveler poured so i can put my cement board down tomorrow.
leveler leveling.
tomorrow morning my helper is coming over so we should be able to knock out a ton more than i can get done alone. have to finish insulating, add a couple more 2x4's, drop the tub in place, rough the pex and wires and change out the door and frame before walls can go up.
From what I can see, this will be the only square plumb part of the whole house. That is some very handsome looking work. Fast too.
yesterday was dedicated to mechanicals, finishing framing, and insulation mostly. plus another coat of leveler as the first batch wasn't quite enough.
today much progress was made. since it's 1am and i just sat down for dinner, minus the few hours spent hanging out in the cold with Stampie screwing around torching the rear axle out of a dually.
end of today:
Looking good!
Wow, that's progress!!
sneaky sneaky.
I call next for my house.
i promise update pics tonight. i've been busting my rear working on stuff until 1am+. that leaves me little motivation to do more than shower and go to sleep. the 2 nights i did, the forum was down. i was calculating how many tiles there are, and my head exploded. there are around 3500 on the floor. approximately 90 per square foot, laid 39 square feet. have not counted how many on a square foot of the mosaic wall tiles, but will do that and figure out a total number when i'm done. back to the bathroom...
things are looking up and i can see an end, minus the fact that i haven't built my cabinets yet.
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