Home Improvement Today?

Lol , I think everybody learns that one at some point , but you never make that mistake again .

 

Here are some pics of what i was talking about in the previous post.

I had to move the outlet up about 5 inches. notch out the drywall as you can see in the next 2 pics. Then are 2 pics of the finished product.

Gotta find some way to make that drywall notch look good. I'm thinking caulk, but the wife says white wouldn't look good. Ideas?

 

I would tape off the granite and caulk it white and then paint it, you could do it clear and no paint but I don't think that would look very good. Heck you could even mud it and paint that.

 

i had to relocate a duplex outlet on my bathroom remodel too.. luckily i had enough slack from where the NM cable was stapled to the stud to get everything connected in the new location

looks good - good choice of granite and cabinet! i'd just caulk all the way around where the backsplash meets the wall - i'd use white caulk, ..probably wouldn't worry about trying to match the wall color, should look fine if you tool the bead nicely

 

Just bought a remodeled house can't wait for summer to put on a roof top patio.

 

Worked on the bathroom yesterday some more. I also worked on it last weekend.

Last weekend, I got all the CBU in the tub surround mudded and taped and the CBU down on the floor. I also got all of the electrical wired up (can lights in, switches & receptacles wired)

Yesterday I got 2 coats of redgard up. I think I need to add more because I only used 1 gallon and the recommended coverage stated for a waterproofing membrane of 1 gallon is less than the square footage I covered.

I also got two coats of drywall mud up. I used 45 min set mud so I could get two coats done. Tomorrow I'm gonna sand and put the finish coat of mud up on the drywall.

 

Looks like you're making great progress!

 

Finished up a spice cabinet. My wife has a lot of spices and some of the bottles are quite large (Costco). The cabinet was pretty full and it made it difficult to find the smaller stuff. Plus, some of the smaller bottles were stored in a separate cabinet since there was no room. So I cut out the shelf and added some pull-out shelves. I have 4 4" pullouts on the outsides for the larger stuff and 2 2-1/2" pullouts on the inside for the smaller stuff. Now she can fit everything in the one cabinet. I cut out the middle pillar that separated the two doors and attached it to one cabinet door so she has full access to the cabinet.

When I first did it, I made them with the thought of using one undermount slide. Unfortunately it was a bit wobbly and the drawers tended to tilt forward at the top and sway back and forth when they were pulled out, making them clunky to put back in. So I took them out and shaved 1/4" from the top and bottom with a power hand planer that I purchased from Sears Then, I added another slide to the top of the spice rack.

The drawer to the left has wood putty where I blew it out using the planer (lesson learned). When it's fully dry, I'll sand it flat and repaint it.

 

this will definitely be one of the things that I will tackle once we purchase our home...we have one similar to the one in the infomercials right now and its already full lol

 

I like those spice racks above! Very nice! I plan on ripping out my pantry soon and building a built-in pantry with similar pullout shelves for everything.

Update:

Sanding drywall in a sealed off bathroom sucks... I can sand for about 10 minutes, then take a break and let the dust settle, then come back and sand for 10 minutes...then repeat. I have tears of gypsum haha. I also have to clean the pre-filter on my respirator periodically.

I'm thinking of making some sort of dust ducting system to duct the dust out the window nearby bedroom window so I can sand longer than 10 minutes at a time.

Also, I had some tape bubble in a few spots. DAMNIT! so yesterday I had to cut out those sections so I can re-tape and re-mud them...GRRR.

 

I hate the bubbling for you, I had the same problem and it was hard to get them to look right after retaping and mudding. In fact, I couldn't! On one joint I knew it was going to bubble so I just pulled the whole thing off and redid it.

I don't know if you have any more drywalling to do but I found watering down the mud to a consistency of room temperature sour cream and applying twice as much mud as you need and then squeezing out the excess over 3 or 4 runs of your trowel made for perfect corners with no bubbling.

I am looking forward to seeing your finished bathroom, I bet you'll finish yours before I finish mine.

 

Got a shop vac? I have the wife hold the vac under the spot i'm sanding. Catches about 90% of the dust.

 

Last little project I did...

Before..











Rest of bush coming down this week...

What it looked like last summer..

Have fence on both sides of house now.. Will post pics later...

 

I got the tile laid this weekend finally and my girlfriend primed and painted the walls and ceiling.

We're finally in the home stretch haha, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

All we have left is:
Grout, install trim & paint the trim, caulk, touch up painting, install toilet and other finish plumbing, install the vanities, lights, and mirrors, transition threshold, install receptacle plates and switch covers, and put the accessories back up (shower curtain, towel bars, etc).

Back wall tile is up

Wall color is a grey color


Bullnose tile to edge it

Shower tile is up

Floor tile

A shot of both the wall and floor tile

Tiling the shampoo niche. Unfortunately my measurements were slightly off and the niche didn't fall exactly in the field tile like I wanted. Oh well, such is life.

Another floor tile shot

Yep I know one is crooked, I fixed it after the pic

 

Getting close Brad

 

Almost there for sure! As soon as I'm done with this though, I'm ripping up 80% of the carpet in my house and putting down new floors.

 

Moved the wife's shit out! (Soon to be EX) Big improvemnt not having all her clutter.

 

shower tile looks good! what kind of caulk are you going to use in the corners?

 

Looking good, I am very interested to see what the shower tile looks like grouted. Is it going to be light or dark colored grout?

 

100% silicone color matched. I have to go pick some up from a tile store though. HD and Lowe's only carry color matched in siliconized acrylic which doesn't hold up as well in a shower.

The grout is an offwhite color about 2 shades from white. Similar to the tile color. I'm using the same color for the walls and floor. I'm grouting it on Saturday.