Respect your Toilet!!!

Yes thats what I meant to say. Respect your toilet and cherish the simple act of being able to use it when you need it. Why am I saying this? Well of course because we don't have one at the moment!

Saturday morning we decided to install the tile floor in the bathroom. So of course this meant the porcelain god had to go! We unbolted it from the floor and tilted it to get it loose. Luckily it wasn't so bad to remove or was too icky to deal with.

Emma did a wonderful job on the tile and it is all finished and grouted and looks great! Hopefully later today when we get home from work we can connect the toilet up again and enjoy the freedom that we all take for granted.

The shower is almost ready as well. Still have to get some drywall repair and the trim for the shower installed and we are good to go!! W also bought a new shower door on Saturday but that won't be installed for a little while until we get the rest of the stuff installed in or around the shower.

Tile and bathtub are finished!

So here are some pictures of the tile in the bathroom. It turned out really well. Emma did such a great job and even though it was a bit harder then we planned it was still worth it.







Last night when I got home I decided to finally tackle the water damage near the tub. It's not a big place which is nice but its still something we have to address. I managed to cut out the bad wood and figure out a way to patch it up. Of course once I started ripping out the floor I decided to keep going and get rid of the top layer of plywood. Found out that the bathroom had 3 layers of linoleum and some tar paper. Some of that is staying and the new tile floor will go over the top. We will see how that goes this weekend!!!

For the rest of the pictures from the new tile go HERE.

Still waiting to take a shower at home!!

Well this weekend our remodel was put on hold. We had our bathtub refinished and the guy that did it suggested that we stay out of the bathroom as much as possible and to stop all work and leave it alone until today. So we decided to clean up all the stuff that we pulled out of the bathroom and to clean up the garage some as well. I also had to replace another section of pipes that connected the hot water to the bathroom sink. Somehow it started to leak and so it needed replaced. Also found out that we had a hot water hook-up to our toilet!! It was connected to its own valve that wasn't on but went through a copper pipe inside the wall. Had to disconnect that and plug up the connection. Strange that it was like that but it worked out to get rid of it.

Emma helped a great deal to get the garage all organized. I suppose I had my own organization....which didn't exist but hers is much better. Over time after some projects and the accumulation of materials and other items it was getting piled up. But now everything has a place and a good amount of it has been put away.

I will post some pictures tonight of the wonderful tile that Emma finished last week. It really is night and day compared to what we used to have. Next comes the finishing of the drywall and then the floor of the bathroom. Not sure how it will work out with no toilet for a day but we will see!!

Bathroom Remodel

Original Bathroom
Originally uploaded by ryan_nowell.

Here are some pictures from a recent project. Its been a bit harder and has taken longer then we had expected but its going well. We both have taken a crash course in plumbing and tiling and window replacement! Thanks to the library and the internet its been a great learning experience. Now if we can get done so we don't have to head to the gym each time we want a shower!!