Bathroom Remodeling
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| Here is what we started with. A downstairs half-bath. | It had a side-by-side washer/dryer that took up a lot of room. We figured we would get stackable front-loaders and put in a shower stall. | The demolition is underway. It looked pretty scary at this point, there was dust & dirt everywhere. |
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| A lot of work needed to be done. | One of our brave carpenters at work! | Here is a child laborer using his little finger to do all the PVC installation. Any leaks -- he will be blamed!!! |
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| A panoramic view. | Wow, do things look better with walls. | We finally got in the washer and dryer. |
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| At the end of the summer of 2007, we were pretty happy. At least a corner of the bathroom looked done -- still no shower. | Yuck, need to turn this into a shower stall. None of that prefab stuff for us! | Our mortar-man at work. We think he didn't know what he was doing, but learning on the job! |
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| Pouring the concrete for the floor was a big challenge. Layer of concrete, rubber membrane, another layer of concrete -- AND, make sure it all slopes toward the drain! | Here are the rough walls. Hardiboard! | Mortar on the floor and ceramic tile in a honeycomb pattern on top -- keep that slope toward the drain! |
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| It looks a harmless sealing fan. You'd never know it took hours and hours to run the venting above the ceiling! | Simple beauty. | Starting to look like a shower, got the tile in, but no grout. |
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| Grouting is done! | The finished product! |