First Floor Bathroom Project - Week 4-6 (Jun 25-Jul 13)

Most of these three weeks have been fitting out the electrical, plumbing, insulation, framing the wet wall stuff and drywalling. The plumbing along took quite a while as everytime I cut into the houses existing supply lines, some other ancient valve died. Finally the main shutdown for the house busted and that led to a frantic search for plumbing supplies on July 4th. Arggh. The actual plumbing for the bathroom went well, it was al the other things around it that slowed up production.

	This is a view of the north east corner of the bathroom showing mostly just the rough electrical.
	Here's the framing on the north (wet) wall. I framed in and mounted the carcass for the medicine chest as well as an attachment for the sink hangers (the gray horizontal board about mid way up). You can see the sink plumbing and electrical work for the outlet and vanity lights. The horizontal 2x4 about 1/2 up the side of the medicine chest are for holding those light fixtures. They are old fixtures and don't mount on a standard electrical box. You can also see the shims I've attached to some 2x4 in preparation for drywalling. This place literally doesn't have a flat plane in any dimension and firing these all out took forever (it felt like forever, boring and frustrating at the same time)
	Same as above, but looking more at the floor. Boring, but I'm keeping these in case I need to ever go into the walls again - I'll have a roadmap of what is behind the drywall. You can see some new framing around the window (I had to remove the window completely as it was barely held into the house and build a new frame and reinstall it).
	Same wall, looking at the north east area. You can see the horizontal hangar for the toilet tank (yep, the toilet we're installing has a separate tank and bowl, so it has to hang on the wall).
	This is the plumbing and such in the south wall. I've taken a number of pictures as I could not stand far enough back (small room, remember?) to fit the whole thing in frame. This is the top 1/3rd. Again, boring, but mostly in case anyone ever needs to go back into that wall.
	Same as above, middle 1/3rd
	And the exciting finish - the bottom 1/3
	After the drywall was up, here is the north east wall. The holes for the outlet box and switch came out pretty much exactly where they should (always a good thing).
	South East corner. Really boring, as freshly drywalled (and primed) rooms are
	North (wet) wall. Note the nearly perfect opening for the medicine chest :-)

Last updated July 28, 2001