Bathroom #1 . . . start to finish.
Ok, so this is what we started with. A room. Without so much as a fourth wall or a door . . and I think we can all agree its tough two-sey when there’s no door to shut.
Framing begins. First building out the back wall, then some structure around the coffin-sized shower all the way out to our new fourth wall.
As we worked on the framing and eletrical, Todd and The Plumbing Group worked on running lines and vent stacks. Chris is almost at the bottom of the list when it comes to offering significant help with actual plumbing duties [followed only by yours truly] so he gets roof duty. [I said duty.]
Our biggest challenge thus far was to bring water some 1100′ from the neighbors house. Well, wait . . that wasn’t our biggest challenge, we simply had to hire qualified plumbers. Todd’s biggest challenge was trenching up those 1100′, but whatever.
Next came the shiny new pump.
Once framing was fairly complete, we began to run some additional wiring for items such as a water heater, wall heater, additional outlets and moving some switches around.
A look at the newly framed bathroom with the majority of wiring and plumbing complete.
Ugh . . then sheetrock, the new bain of my existence. Sheetrocking wasn’t bad, mainly because I didn’t have to do it, but taping, bedding and texturing sucked . . thoroughly. [Despite the lone photo of Chris working on it, I did help with this]
And finally, this past weekend . . TA-DA! A finished bathroom. We finally feel like we’ve completed something. It’s a small something, but still a something.
For a cheap bathroom, it looks pretty nice. When we can, we go used. Some people have been nice enough to give us a few things, and when we’ve had to buy, its been whatever’s on sale at Lowes. We’ve got a ton of work left, and not an enourmous budget, so we have to save where we can.
This weekend? Framing the addition. We’ve already dropped the posts in the ground and decked the floor. On Tuesday night we built our corner studs, cripple studs and headers to save us some time while we’re out there.
If everything goes as planned [which has yet to happen], we’ll have 4 new exterior walls before the Cowboy game on Sunday.
I’m not crossing my fingers.