Every since we moved into this house (now more than 15 years ago) we have wanted to redo the upstairs bathroom. But the problem was always losing the shower/bathtub. Now that we have the basement bathroom (the best room in the house) we were free to begin. The problems were serious: the walls around the bathtub were rotten and riddled with black mildew, there was no extractor fan in the bathroom so, even if we replaced the walls in the shower the mold would just reappear, the plastic lining the shower/bath was old, brittle, yellow and cracking, all the caulking was mildew stained, and the enamel on the tub was chipped off. So Connie begins but pulling off all the walls to get down to the wall studs--which she found under three layers of rotten, mildewy wall boards. The wall studs were moist with condensation.
The old is gone and now the tub walls have been lined with insulation (which didn't exist before) and the green boards are going in.
Now all the green boards are in place and the seams have been sealed shut.
This took an inordinately long time to install but it was well worth it. Most of our bathroom ceiling is directly below the roof and so the attic only extends over about 1/5 of the ceiling space. Also, Connie found that most of the wiring is old cloth wrapped and ceramic tube with the one new line (going to a wall socket by our bathroom mirror) not properly grounded. Figuring out how to wire in a ceiling fan into that mix and also how to even get into the tiny crawl space above the bathroom to install the fan were no small matters.
And now my favorite part: the tiling.
Next on the agenda (barring any unforeseen circumstances of course): grouting, the shower head (6" higher than the previous one), fixing the drain plug (we hope: that opens up a whole new set of problems) and stripping and re-enameling the tub.
The old is gone and now the tub walls have been lined with insulation (which didn't exist before) and the green boards are going in.
Now all the green boards are in place and the seams have been sealed shut.
This took an inordinately long time to install but it was well worth it. Most of our bathroom ceiling is directly below the roof and so the attic only extends over about 1/5 of the ceiling space. Also, Connie found that most of the wiring is old cloth wrapped and ceramic tube with the one new line (going to a wall socket by our bathroom mirror) not properly grounded. Figuring out how to wire in a ceiling fan into that mix and also how to even get into the tiny crawl space above the bathroom to install the fan were no small matters.
And now my favorite part: the tiling.
Next on the agenda (barring any unforeseen circumstances of course): grouting, the shower head (6" higher than the previous one), fixing the drain plug (we hope: that opens up a whole new set of problems) and stripping and re-enameling the tub.
2 comments:
Phew! That looks painfully thorough.
xM
Yeah, we aren't even doing the floor tile which is cracked and leaks water down onto (and through) the kitchen ceiling below.
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