I recently paid someone else to remodel my bathroom in my house. I spent about six or seven grand in labor, it took two months, and I had to babysit them all the time because they would **** everything up unless I watched them every step of the way. I swear those guys wouldn't read installation instructions if their life depended on it.
Well, my mom really liked my bathroom remodel, and wanted to fix up her master bathroom too. Rather than paying some hack tons of money to **** everything up and have to redo it two or three times, my neighbor and I decided to tackle the project ourselves, and farm out the stuff we couldn't/didn't want to do. He's a very handy guy, and has extraordinary attention to detail. I gave him a bunch of money instead, (which I much prefer) the job gets done right, and I get to learn how to do some of this stuff in the process, so it's a win/win all the way around.
It's not a full demolish/rebuild, so it's not as big of a job as my bathroom. We're going to put new tile on the floor, new toilet, new tile in the shower, new shower fixtures, new vanity (going from one sink to two), new dual light fixtures above the sink, and some new paint. I bought the vanity, shower fixtures, lights, etc all online. Mostly from Overstock.com. All the tile came from Floor & Decor.
Anyway, here's some before pictures.
Day 1:
My neighbor and I rented an electric chisel from Home Depot with a couple chisel attachments for smashing tile, and a big scraper for pulling up all the old tile mud from the floor. We took turns smashing tile and cleaning up. It's tiring work (especially for fat bankers) and I was wore out by the end of the day. However, we got all the tile cleaned completely up, and the floor smooth as glass in one day. It was 119 degrees yesterday, and even though we were inside and out of the sun, it was still pretty freakin' hot.
On the first day, we had torn out all the tile and the vanity, capped the plumbing lines, and pulled the toilet.
Day 2:
Now we had the shower to contend with. It was just tile on greenboard, and it wasn't too difficult. There's a glass block window that we had to be careful with. We also taped four thick moving blankets over the tub so it wouldn't get damaged while we were smashing the crap outta the shower walls.
Unfortunately, I had a little mishap. I was smashing the walls with a 3 lb sledgehammer, and ripping the pieces out. Well, a chunk of drywall/mud/tile fell and hit me in the shin on its way down. It didn't hurt, but it looks terrible. Luckily, I have pretty tough skin so I don't cut too easy, and when I do, I clot like a champ!
I went to urgent care, they cleaned all the drywall and shrapnel out of the wound, (which DID hurt like crazy ) bandaged me up, and sent me on my way with some antibiotics. It's going to leave an ugly scar, but hey, chicks dig scar, right? One hour and $125, I was back working.
Here's the shower after demo.
Here's where the vanity used to be. We're gonna call Deer Valley Plumbing to come split the feeds and the drains for two sinks. We need to mock up where the vanity is first though so we know where the plumbing needs to be. We're also gonna pull out all the old R13 insultation from 1983 and cram some R19 insulation in it's place. Apparently it's for 2x6 construction, but you can squeeze it into 2x4 construction if you want.
There's a little damage to the foundation where the drain is, and some moisture damage. The drywall guy (another neighbor of mine) is gonna fix it with some quickcrete and elastomeric foam I guess. I don't know what the stuff is, but he seemed pretty familiar with it so I'm hoping it works fine. I also sprayed all the walls with some bleachwater to kill any leftover mold spores.
Here's the mess in the bedroom.
Anyway, there's not much more to do right until the plumber and the drywaller do their work. Hopefully they can do their stuff this week so maybe we can get to tiling this long holiday weekend. I like doing house stuff. It's fun learning how to do it.
Paul.
Well, my mom really liked my bathroom remodel, and wanted to fix up her master bathroom too. Rather than paying some hack tons of money to **** everything up and have to redo it two or three times, my neighbor and I decided to tackle the project ourselves, and farm out the stuff we couldn't/didn't want to do. He's a very handy guy, and has extraordinary attention to detail. I gave him a bunch of money instead, (which I much prefer) the job gets done right, and I get to learn how to do some of this stuff in the process, so it's a win/win all the way around.
It's not a full demolish/rebuild, so it's not as big of a job as my bathroom. We're going to put new tile on the floor, new toilet, new tile in the shower, new shower fixtures, new vanity (going from one sink to two), new dual light fixtures above the sink, and some new paint. I bought the vanity, shower fixtures, lights, etc all online. Mostly from Overstock.com. All the tile came from Floor & Decor.
Anyway, here's some before pictures.
Day 1:
My neighbor and I rented an electric chisel from Home Depot with a couple chisel attachments for smashing tile, and a big scraper for pulling up all the old tile mud from the floor. We took turns smashing tile and cleaning up. It's tiring work (especially for fat bankers) and I was wore out by the end of the day. However, we got all the tile cleaned completely up, and the floor smooth as glass in one day. It was 119 degrees yesterday, and even though we were inside and out of the sun, it was still pretty freakin' hot.
On the first day, we had torn out all the tile and the vanity, capped the plumbing lines, and pulled the toilet.
Day 2:
Now we had the shower to contend with. It was just tile on greenboard, and it wasn't too difficult. There's a glass block window that we had to be careful with. We also taped four thick moving blankets over the tub so it wouldn't get damaged while we were smashing the crap outta the shower walls.
Unfortunately, I had a little mishap. I was smashing the walls with a 3 lb sledgehammer, and ripping the pieces out. Well, a chunk of drywall/mud/tile fell and hit me in the shin on its way down. It didn't hurt, but it looks terrible. Luckily, I have pretty tough skin so I don't cut too easy, and when I do, I clot like a champ!
I went to urgent care, they cleaned all the drywall and shrapnel out of the wound, (which DID hurt like crazy
) bandaged me up, and sent me on my way with some antibiotics. It's going to leave an ugly scar, but hey, chicks dig scar, right? One hour and $125, I was back working.
Here's the shower after demo.
Here's where the vanity used to be. We're gonna call Deer Valley Plumbing to come split the feeds and the drains for two sinks. We need to mock up where the vanity is first though so we know where the plumbing needs to be. We're also gonna pull out all the old R13 insultation from 1983 and cram some R19 insulation in it's place. Apparently it's for 2x6 construction, but you can squeeze it into 2x4 construction if you want.
There's a little damage to the foundation where the drain is, and some moisture damage. The drywall guy (another neighbor of mine) is gonna fix it with some quickcrete and elastomeric foam I guess. I don't know what the stuff is, but he seemed pretty familiar with it so I'm hoping it works fine. I also sprayed all the walls with some bleachwater to kill any leftover mold spores.
Here's the mess in the bedroom.
Anyway, there's not much more to do right until the plumber and the drywaller do their work. Hopefully they can do their stuff this week so maybe we can get to tiling this long holiday weekend. I like doing house stuff. It's fun learning how to do it.
Paul.
