Pictures:
You can see the left electrical outlet will need to move. It was originally spaced based on the vanity being all the way to the right.
Now that it’s installed and everything is working, I’m quite pleased with it.
UPDATE: Here is the socket moved
Evidently, there is something going around. Here are my notes:
1. I have always said the only thing we have to fear from this is panic and over-reaction by government. We are there.
2. I just went to costco. Turns out, I was there 20 minutes before they opened. There was a crowd in the parking lot waiting to get inside.
3. States and cities, who dont even have any infected patients, are declaring states of emergency.
4. The federal government is telling people to remain calm, but the national media does the opposite of whatever Trump says so they are inciting panic.
5. The stock market is in free fall. And democrats are loving the idea that old women are going to die in poverty because it will make Trump look bad. Those people are seriously deranged. At this point, it would not be a stretch to declare the anti-trump media as a clear and present danger to life and the economic health of the nation.
6. All over a disease, That, if you get it, you will probably fully recover without treatment. Even those most at risk, the elderly, will likely be indistinguishable from the normal amount who die every year anyway.
7. This is absurd.
Ok, so. I’m making painfully slow progress.
Finished the tile.
Installed the toilet.
Learned that the shower drains leaked into the basement. I was able to fix it from below. And I needed to rip out all the waste lines anyway and start over. Too many leaks. I suspect the cement I was using was too old and just not bonding.
The problem with the shower was the flange on the waterproof barrier was loose, so water was getting around it. Normally, there isn’t much water getting to that barrier, but I also didn’t have a tight seal around the top of the drain.
I was able to get to it from below by unscrewing the floor braces and dropping the barrier.
Installed vanity and double sinks from Costco. Made in Vietnam (cough… China), but was very strongly constructed from heavy plywood and marble top. Nothing in that price range was anywhere near that good from big box stores. All of them are using particle board, which I think is just stupid for a wet room application. Also picked up matching Moen faucets for $44 each. Heavier than a metric ton of lead-reinforced shit (the vanity, not the faucets) and all glued together. I stripped it down as best as I could. Packaging alone was 50 pounds. Then I manhandled it inside.
Dear readers. I must apologize for what looks like repetitive blogging. I’m still doing tile in the bathroom. Another weekend has come and. Gone and I have made a trickle of progress.
It turns out that the baseboard tile I put in does not match up with the wall tile. Huge lippage on every joint. So 15 baseboard tiles need to be chipped out with a chisel, new ones cut and installed. So that’s what I did.
The new ones look much better so I dont have to suffer the anxiety of looking at it for the next ten years and thinking I should have done it right the first time. In reality, i should have put then in when i did the wall tile instead of putting them in with the floor.
With leftover time, I grouted the mudroom backsplash. It was useful practice for me.
For floor tile, I have grey sanded grout. For the wall I have unsanded white grout. And I have grey caulk to do places where two surfaces meet. (Corners).
While I’m at it, I reset the electrical outlets. The wall with tile obviously comes out farther then the drywall behind it.
This is easily done by inserting green spacers on each of the mounting screws.
Any viola! Done.
It was a long weekend and it feels like I pissed it away.
I finally finished hanging the wall tile in the bathroom.
Then as I was pulling out the spacers, a section of tiles came down onto me. The tile needs 90% contact with the wall and you can see from the residue actually on the wall, I was hitting about 2%. The large gap created by the bow in the wall was just too much. If I had used smaller tiles, like 4-6″ tiles, they would have likely followed the contour of the wall. But these large format tiles are tricky.
With the leftovers, I put in a backsplash in the mud room.
I even had time for a lot of cleanup. I used a small circular saw (4″) with a tile blade to clean up grout lines where floor tiles are too close together. I made sure the depth gauge was set to make sure I didn’t penetrate the waterproof barrier under the tile.
Next weekend, grout.
Moving right along. Finally able to get the wall tile up. I had to buy a bigger saw from China freight to handle the 12×24″ tiles. I wish I had it all along. It would have made all those floor diagonals much easier. The new saw also cuts the tiles better with less chipping at the edge. The right tile was cut by the old saw. Left by the new one.
The tiles are pristinely flat. The wall I’m putting them on is not. This will lead to variations and gaps between the tile and the wall. The tile is supposed to have 90% contact with the wall. I’ll be lucky if it hits 15% in some places. Good thing no one will be walking on it. Also good thing I bought this tile on clearance. I have plenty for wastage and wont care it the whole job needs to be replaced … by the next people who own this place.
I don’t know who put up these walls, but he needs to buy a straight edge and a level.
It’s hard work bending over for each trowel of thinset. I mix it the thickness of peanut butter so it sticks to the wall better and doesnt run off. It also fills the gaps better
I got lucky. The window ledge I put in is exactly at the height of an even tile. No cutting needed on that block.
So…. still working on the bathroom and my creative consultant tells me the window is 4″ too far to the left. It overhangs the bench in the shower and prevents anyone from later adding a shower door.
So. Cut out the old window and unscrew the wallboard. Then frame in the new window, (36×36), re-insulate the wall, seal the gaps, install house-wrap outside, install new window, and freehand the wallboard.
Tada!! New window. Now I can finish installing the baseboard tile on that wall.
Even you Godless communists, pagans, militant atheists, and Mohammedans.
May you all continue to have the great blessing of living in a country founded and maintained by the worshipers of the Risen Christ… instead of those rat-infested crap holes where non Christians are dominant.
May you communists out there still earn a great living because you live in a country that isn’t communist, despite your best efforts to bring it down.
Why would I be so magnanimous to the open enemies of my nation, my religion and my culture? Because that’s what being Christian is. Also, because I share the lifeboat that the communists, mohammedans, pagans, and militant atheists are trying to drill holes in the bottom of. The longer ther continue to prosper in this land. The longer the lifeboat is sound for the rest of us.
Of course, we could ensure our lifeboat stays sound by kicking all the destructive elements out. But that wouldnt be very Christian.
I bought the cheapest welder from China Frieght. Under a hundred bucks for a flux core welder.
Here you can see my weld versus the factory weld. The device did a pretty good job. The metal was sealed nicely, though a bit ugly due to my own inexperience.
I also cut the flange from the existing pipe and welded it onto the new pipe, creating a nice bolt on connection.
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