Journal DGtlRift's Journal: Projects... what to do next...
It's been a long sommer... long because a simple project turned out to be not so simple...
I decided to redo our guest half bath. It was cramped, and I wish I photo documented everything I did but it's too late so... oh well. In hindsight, if anyone wants to redo their bath... my adivice is to plan on stripping everthing down to the studs and plan on having to rip up 5 floors just to get down to the subfloor.
Needless to say this project went way beyond my deadline.
Many things were just comical... down to before even starting - which is what prompted the start of the project.
/----Sink & counter
| /- Window
V V
+-[-]-+
|O| |
| /(o)| <- toilet
+| |--+
\ <- door
A
\------- enter
This is the best ascii representation of the 1/2 bath... and it's also nearly to scale. There was really no room to move inside this Water Closet... There was a huge countertop taking up most of the space, the toilet & tank was so big it was in the way of the door way, the counter was cut at an angle so you could actually get into the bathroom without having to be a gymnast. Then there was the fact that they were puke green sink and toilet... a great color to hide the dirt and other nonmentionables, but not very... well.. it just looked like crap.
Redid the tile floor which was an inch higher then the connecting rooms floor (also tile), which after ripping it up, and ripping up the lanolium under, and ripping up another lanolium under, and then ripping up some paper like flooring, and then ripping up some fiber board, I got to the subfloor... after that I new why it was an inch taller.
One of the walls collaps it was so brittle, and under the heating duct was broken with a 6 inch gap that must have dried out the wall board and made it brittle. We had some issues with the register at the end of this duct and I could see why there was no heat coming through... it was all leaking into the crawl space under the half bath...
The other wall had a section of wall that was patched (where a medicine cabanet use to be) some time ago collapse when sanding since the previous owner patched it with cardboard.
it's going much better now though... I just want to get it done.
I decided to redo our guest half bath. It was cramped, and I wish I photo documented everything I did but it's too late so... oh well. In hindsight, if anyone wants to redo their bath... my adivice is to plan on stripping everthing down to the studs and plan on having to rip up 5 floors just to get down to the subfloor.
Needless to say this project went way beyond my deadline.
Many things were just comical... down to before even starting - which is what prompted the start of the project.
|
V V
+-[-]-+
|O| |
|
+| |--+
\ <- door
A
\------- enter
This is the best ascii representation of the 1/2 bath... and it's also nearly to scale. There was really no room to move inside this Water Closet... There was a huge countertop taking up most of the space, the toilet & tank was so big it was in the way of the door way, the counter was cut at an angle so you could actually get into the bathroom without having to be a gymnast. Then there was the fact that they were puke green sink and toilet... a great color to hide the dirt and other nonmentionables, but not very... well.. it just looked like crap.
Redid the tile floor which was an inch higher then the connecting rooms floor (also tile), which after ripping it up, and ripping up the lanolium under, and ripping up another lanolium under, and then ripping up some paper like flooring, and then ripping up some fiber board, I got to the subfloor... after that I new why it was an inch taller.
One of the walls collaps it was so brittle, and under the heating duct was broken with a 6 inch gap that must have dried out the wall board and made it brittle. We had some issues with the register at the end of this duct and I could see why there was no heat coming through... it was all leaking into the crawl space under the half bath...
The other wall had a section of wall that was patched (where a medicine cabanet use to be) some time ago collapse when sanding since the previous owner patched it with cardboard.
it's going much better now though... I just want to get it done.
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