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The Bathroom
Your probably thinking to yourself, "Wow, there must have had some
flood damage here." or "Isn't that mold a lovely shade of blue
on the back wall!" or maybe you have a sudden desire to be sprayed
down with a 10% solution of Lysol and put on your HAZ-MAT yellow rubber
suit. Well there is nothing wrong here, it is just our lovely Powder
Room.
To match the level of the floor in the main room I was forced
to use 2x6 lumber for the floor (ugh!). The good news is that the 6x6
timbers surrounding the room were solid as the day they were first put
in. I slid the 2x6 between the floor of the main room and the beam and
dropped it on the outer wall beam. Solid as a rock! I also put a steel
beam under the bathroom, slightly off center to align it with the tub
edge. The bounce completely disappeared when I tightened up the screw
jacks. Did I mention I loved overkill!
I also laid a layer of 3/4 inch flooring down to bring the floor to the
level of the heart-of-pine floor in the main room. The there was a second
3/4 inch layer of flooring over everything. This gave us a rock solid 1&1/2
inch thick glued & screw slab of flooring! Liquid Nails RULE! We glued
everything. Every sheet of flooring, every sheet of drywall, every sheet
of sheathing and anything else we caulk find. The name of the game was to
block all bug entrances. If an ant wants to get in, it will have to knock.
Here is the water resistant sheetrock in the bath. This
bathroom was actually huge considering the overall size of the house.
It measured 7 foot by 12 foot.
My father, "POP", and brother-in-law Ken put the ceramic tile
down in a single Saturday and grouted it the same night. Killer job! It
really brightened up the place. I will put white Subway Tile on the walls
up to about four foot but this will wait until our first guests move out.
At this time we were freaking out about the schedule which had slipped two
weeks already.
Here in the main room are the vanity and linen closed ready
to be placed into the bathroom as soon as the grout dries. Another stellar
job by POP and Ken.
The Main Room/Kitchen
What a mess. Once the walls were packed with insulation and wiring in
place, the drywall went up. Conduit for the security system also went
in as well as high speed internet, 100 Megabit LAN and cable TV.
This image shows the bath entrance. You can also see here
as well as in the picture above, the 3/4 inch plywood flooring I place
over the old 3/4 inch heart of pine flooring. I know what you are thinking.
But the pine floor was so trashed it was ruined. It had been cut open
and poorly patched in several areas and in other areas under roof leaks
it was rotted thru.
Oh what a lesson we learned on the cabinets. The whole house is out of
kilter which in some ways reflects the charm of this 120 year old house.
That is until you try to hang something on the wall! There are shims everywhere!
These cabinets are still not perfect and it drives me crazy thinking about
it. At night lying in bed I think about it until I want to get 30 gallons
of spackle and plumb that wall the hard way!
The vinyl floor was interesting. This floor was soft and
pliable. The weird thing was that you didn't glue it down, it just lays
there like a rug? All you need to do is put double sided tape at the doorways.
I decided that I would also nail the brass tack strip below right through
the flooring anyway. I also sealed it with adhesive caulk at the bath
door and front door.
Here I am laying the carpet as our new guests where moving in over my
head. We worked like dogs to get the place finished in time. Their daughter
shadowed me when ever she was visiting. That "knee-kicker" I'm
using here is death on your leg. Of the countless tasks I do, stretching
carpet is one of the few tasks that I pay for the following morning.
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