Time to brag about my project

[Whateverist]

Man I am so jelly! I've got a bathroom remodel in the works which I have been avoiding like the plague. It's for the guest room and is original to the building, so over a hundred years old. So many problems to fix.

Here's an idea! You and your sister get a film crew and take that show on the road. Do a show-you-how-to-do-it show for television. Got a great first episode for you in Berkeley.

[ignoramus]

Won't happen Mark. Where she goes, the cats go! How are your pooches with cats?

[Whateverist]

Untested mostly. But on the rare occasion we go away my dog sitter has a cat and a kitten who she says they tolerate just fine. Not a lot of interaction apparently.

[Clueless Morgan]

Ballin' out!

Imma need you to teach me how to do the drywall stuff. My garage ceiling is going to need to be fixed, and my attempts to patch it thusfar have been... less than stellar... lol.

Gyp board is deceptively easy actually...

TL;DR version:  Thin coats, applied with a good-quality non-rusting metal drywall spreader held at a fairly low angle (30-45°, I think).  Blued steel is nice and thin but it rusts if you look at it funny.  Plastic is easy to wash up but it wears out, mostly from getting chips in the edge (although narrow plastic ones are fine for filling screw holes and for taping).  The objective is to apply the mud so that it needs virtually no sanding at the end.

Oh, and get a drywall screw "dimpler" that automatically stops the screw at the right depth.

Also, use knives that graduate in size, i.e. for the scratch coat use a 6" knife, for the second coat use an 8" knife, for the final coat use a 10-12" knife.  And use more joint compound that you think is reasonable In other words, don't be stingy with the compound (I went through 5 quarts on this itty bitty project!).  The joints that were most successful for me were the ones where I slapped a big wad of compound on the joint every 4" and then let the knife spread it.  My joints were sort of difficult also because I was blending new gyp board with existing textured walls so there was some ridges that transmitted through the compound that I ended up having to sand out.

Looks like a hell of a lot more work that I would take on. Good for you! And thanks for the glimpse into your life.

It was surprisingly less work than I thought it would be in the end. The entire project was done after I got home from work and on weekends and the major work only took 3 weeks even by that stingy work schedule!  (I spent this last week putting in the shelves and towel ring and the little finishing touches.)

We have the same dresser in our spare room except it's more blonde.

No way!  It's heirloom furniture from my great grand parents; they probably bought it out of a Sears catalog or something  I have the matching chest of drawers and bed, too.

If you're really a girl I'm amazed that you can get by with that amount of counter space. Maybe it's only old women that need all of the shit.

One of the impetuses for this project was to GAIN more counter space - and also drawers.  The vanity in there now is 24" and I'm looking for a 36" one to replace it with.

Oh, and your toilet paper is on backwards. hehehehe

The toilet paper in the photo is actually on a "refill" holder, aka when the TP runs out on the regular dispenser you grab that one.  I haven't actually installed the new TP dispenser yet.

Otherwise, I agree it's wrong.  I have been known to switch TP rolls around so that it comes off the top of the roll when I'm over at people's houses....

That's pretty good for a girl.


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Indeed! I remodeled the master bathroom about 12 years ago and put in a pocket door, at my wife's request. Biggest piece of shit, ever. Made from knot-riddled Douglas fir, and 3/4" by 3/4" to boot. I would have happily given up the minimal amount of floor space I lost and used bigger lumber, had I known before I bought that kit.

That was one of my concerns with a pocket door and why I hadn't hit the go button on the project before now.

When i saw this thread title I made an 80/20 bet that you were building a cat shelf haven pathway all over your house, but I lost that bet!

Y'all know me so well...  That's my next project!


Just kidding, taking out the kitchen soffit is next, but I have to finish the bathroom first... oh, and recover...

Man I am so jelly!  I've got a bathroom remodel in the works which I have been avoiding like the plague.  It's for the guest room and is original to the building, so over a hundred years old.  So many problems to fix.  

Here's an idea!  You and your sister get a film crew and take that show on the road.  Do a show-you-how-to-do-it show for television.  Got a great first episode for you in Berkeley.

Wow, now THAT would intimidate me!  The only things that I'm really uncomfortable doing are running new electrical (all mine was just rewiring and extending existing fixture lines) and doing anything with plumbing.  The thing that most worried me about this project would be having to extend the plumbing lines behind the vanity if the drain wouldn't line up upon reinstallation - but it did!!

Also, one of the reasons I sprung the bathroom project before the kitchen soffit was because I didn't know if I would have to run new cabling for my range which (irritatingly) runs straight though the soffit.  It's such a large gauge line that I don't know how it would stand up to splicing for an extension.

My parents' neighbor is a contractor and he came by a couple weeks ago to look at it and said it shouldn't be a problem so...

Won't happen Mark. Where she goes, the cats go! How are your pooches with cats?

I wouldn't want to inflict my babies on unsuspecting canines.  They get on with my dad's dog but he basically ignores them and they him - unless there's food involved, then shit gets real.

[brewer]

Cool. I've got the bed and chest also, came from my grandmother (probably would be your great's age), Grams ran a rooming house and this was the set in one room. 

Does your's have a four petal flower and bar stencil? Are the legs on wood casters?