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that oval looks perfect from my vantage point! you've got some skills w/ that grinder!

 

Thanks man, I am pretty proud of it.

I will have some pics in the next day or two of the finish bathroom.

 

starting a renno of my laundry closet... pretty sorry as it was, ...i just removed the fugly wire shelving, ... plan is:

- some minor drywall patching/fixup...
- paint ("lunar light" by behr, >>> than old contractor flat white as it is now..)
- cabinets: two 30x30 two-door wall cabinets; color dark brown maple...
- table/countertop to put over washer dryer; plan to fabricate a mounting system so it's easily removable to access washer/dryer, hoses, etc...
- floor - since this closet is tied to the kitchen, ..will hold off doing floor job until ready to do full kitchen remodel...

"before" pic:

 

Ok, here are some before and after pics of the bathroom I just remodeled. As you can see it started as a lovely 50's shade of pink and yellow.

I gutted everything, and I mean everything. New insulation, sheet rock, ceiling, tub, vanity, subfloor, plumbing. The only thing that didn't change is the toilet, luckily the previous owners installed a Toto.

It took a couple months, but I had took some vacation and I occasionally have to travel for work. I am very please the way everything turned out. The only thing I didnt do was the tub and mixing valve which I had a plumber install, and the installation of the tile. My dad, who is a stone mason installed the tile while I made all the cuts and I grouted it in the next day.

Vanity before


Shower before

Floor before

Shower during demo, which if you can tell the old tile wall was a mud job and a MF’er to remove!


Floor after

Shower After

Granite counter during polishing

Granite counter installed.





I installed some nice baseboard molding, which you cant see in any of the pictures.
I still have a couple items on the punch list to clean up, but its 99.9% of the way there

 

crazy what a little elbow grease can do to a room eh? looks good.

 

RI Tacoma,

What a great transformation - i like the granite/tile work in the shower and floor!

 

Thanks, I couldn't be happier with it!

It helps having a stone mason in the family, I got all the granite in the bathroom(counter, walls & floor) for free. It definitely save me a ton of money with DIY

 

nice!

your dad's work looks great! just curious, does he do mud/lathe or does he use backerboard? i'm all ears for recommendations (i did denshield and hardibacker) in my bathroom remodel, ..but my walls are not square/straight)..

 

On the floor, I added plywood to get it to the right height then a layer of 1/4 hardibacker and tile/thin set right over that.

For the shower walls, I put in 1/2 densshield up and used hydraban with mesh on the screw holes and joints. Then used a very high quality thinset right over that.

 

I've done so much work on the inside of this place since I bought it in October of last year decied to give it a face lift on sunday. Pulled out the 4x4s replaced them with 4x6s, new light fixture, new pin pad lock, new (working) doorbell, painted the door, address numbers, and mail slot. I pulled the very ugly plastic phony shutters a couple weeks ago they where that same neon piss yellow. Hope I can get dual pane windows some time next year.

 

i did mine almost exactly the same, ..floor and shower surround..

i didn't use hyraban though, hopefully it stands the test of time...

 

Finally ticked a job off my home list today .

Built my wife some shelving for canned goods etc in a pantry area we have under our basement stairs

The shelves are 3/4" laquered maple plywood with a VG fir face frame biscuit jointed to the shelf units

 

that's sweet! looks very sturdy

 

That looks nice. Very clean!

 

anyone ever build a pergola? easy?

 

It's as easy or hard as you want to make it . The main thing with a pergola is to make sure you have sufficient post depth in the ground to carry a totally top-heavy load

 

12x12ft with post depth min 18inches? using 4 x 4 x 12 posts (4 of them) and 2 x 6's for my overhead pieces. or should I step up to 6x6?

 

Where are you ?

 

oklahoma city, google is telling me our frost line is at 18inches

 

I'm not sure about how bad your winters are there , but if you don't set your posts below the frost line , you could get heaving and movement .

So , to make sure I got this right , you are building a square , 12' x 12' pergola , with a post in each corner only , yes ?