Adultifying!

On April 10, 2021 By Luther M. SilerIn lifeLeave a comment

We met our contractor– the same people that did the roof– at a flooring supply place today and picked out the look for the new bathroom. On the left, vinyl flooring that will extend into the laundry room and looks like tile. On the right, the walls in the shower (12×24, nice big tiles) and, divided into little squares, also the floor for the shower. In the middle, accent tile for the shower. It’s going to run vertically from the showerhead to the handles, form the back of a niche for shampoo and such, and possibly also be a little vertical accent stripe on the bench that’s going to be in there.

We’ll go to a different place for fixtures and a custom vanity in a week and a half or so. Will there be body jets in the shower and a bidet on the toilet? Yep. There sure as hell will.

Whee!

TERRIBLE DECISIONS: Friday

On July 24, 2015 By Luther M. SilerIn idiocy2 Comments

Basically took yesterday off from bathroom stuff because of the carpet/tile people coming in to clean; clearing the living room and dining room of anything we could carry counted as work enough, and I spent the day in here working on Searching for Malumba.

I will be satisfied with myself if, by the end of the day, I have:

Cut the door trim so that the tile fits underneath it (already done!)
Fixed the last couple of screws on the plywood piece so that they’re flush
Measured, cut and glued down the Tavy Thin Skin over the vinyl tile and plywood
Restored the living room and dining room to usable status

I will consider it a bonus if I have also:

Laid down a skim coat of mortar over the Thin Skin.

No tiling is planned for today. I’m hoping to get that done this weekend, and I should be able to, especially if I get that skimcoat done.

TERRIBLE DECISIONS: Today’s agenda

On July 21, 2015 By Luther M. SilerIn idiocyLeave a comment

Got a lot done yesterday, including averting/dealing with one major setback when the floor didn’t turn out to be quite what we thought it was. Ordered new underlayment for the tile today that ought to be here by Friday, so we didn’t lose much time over it.

Anyway, here’s what’s happening today:

Pull out the old sink and vanity
Get rid of the rest of the wallpaper
RedGard and mud the piece of cement board we put in yesterday
If time allows, dry-fit the floor tile

That’ll be a day, I think. Whee!

TERRIBLE DECISIONS: NOT DEAD YET

On December 26, 2013 By Luther M. SilerIn idiocy2 Comments

Alllllrightythen. Phase one: DESTROY BULKHEAD is complete. That last board back there is being left in place on account of there are nails going both ways and I suspect pulling it is going to destroy the drywall, so we’re going to leave it until we actually need to destroy the drywall. The broken piece of DW on the right there is coming down on that same day. Either today (probably not) or tomorrow my father-in-law is coming over; the new bathroom fan is getting installed right about where that pipe for the old one is coming down. That’s attic work and electrical work; I can destroy by myself– I need help for that part. After that’s done, we start taking out the walls.

Total elapsed time: Two hours, maybe, start to finish, and it’s even all clean already, except for that little bit in the back corner yet that I haven’t pulled down. Bathing the boy tonight shouldn’t be a problem.

Injury report: Minor scrape to knuckles, incurred after all work was done and while bagging up the trash. I didn’t feel a damn thing; turns out broken tile is razor-sharp and maybe you keep the work gloves on even when you’re not technically doing what you think of as work anymore.

Trepidation report: incredibly high; this was the second thing in a row that was Way Too Goddamn Easy. There’s gonna be a tarrasque living in the walls, I just know it.