After a Long Pause

We return with our regularly scheduled updates:) Now we're nearly done and just wrapping the room up. Here are some pictures of it we'll do the middle updates later.


All items pictured in the physical area of the bathroom that one would assume to work in some way shape or form do work as intended and are installed in their final configuration. No deceptive devices, props, staged items, or purely decorative items are pictured so as to provide a false sense of completeness.


However until tomorrow the "open" concept is in place as the door currently is sitting on top of the grill with paint on 4 edges and 1 face.

Well, well, well

Well we finally just got someone over to the house to look into the pump issue and what figured was right power on both sides of the pressure switch but no go. Looks like the pump is goofed so the in-expensive bathroom remodel just got more expensive, but we should feel lucky it's the first major non-self inflicted home repair we've had. So back to our regularly scheduled programming.

So....on the hottest, stickiest weekend of the year we have to wait till Monday for water.

And we come to a stop.......

On what promises to be the hottest day of the year our well just died and that means no shower or drinking water or much of anything else. So we will be postponing our regularly scheduled programming until this gets taken care of.

Lunchtime

Well nothing too horrible right now report, but mice are evil little creatures. They do know the difference between hot and cold wires though. They ate through the entire wire except for the insulation around the hot wire. No horrible mold yet, but I haven't ripped down the ceiling yet. More later....need food.

And so it begins.....The Bathroom Begins

Well we've opened pandora's box and the fun has begun. Unlike every other project we've started we actually purchased or ordered all of the major components before beginning. Well yesterday I called HD so I could pickup the Andersen awning window( a little one so people can't watch us do our business) and they said it wasn't scheduled to come in till August 16...... Not good since I was taking a week of vacation. Thankfully 2 guys Tim and Rich at HD were actual human beings and just credited out the order and gave us our money back. I got it from Hancock to be delivered Monday or Tuesday. No one told me that full Vinyl clad and corrosion resistant hardware adds 6 weeks to the project. So we get a cheaper window and sooner.

So after this mornings fun I started ripping. The window came out ok, but I didn't take the frame out yet. There are no studs in the outside wall! Well they are like 36" on center or something like that.

The bastards who remodeled this house still find ways to make life interesting. They felt the need to wire every light in the house from the light to the switch so the lights are always hot. Good think I checked first. Now I have to run between the downstairs and the panel to see what circuit it's one.

The good news is that they took down the plaster so I'm just ripping off the 3/8" drywall and that nasty masonite wallboard. I had to take a break since it's a little sticky here today and the dog was getting a bit jumpy. More later with pictures as I find nasty stuff.:)

The Kitchen

Yep, more bragging about my wife and our house:) We aren't done with the kitchen quite yet, but we're getting closer. The non-glass doors are done and there are just 3 glass ones left to do. The knobs and pulls come from restoration hardware sometime this week. We need to find before pictures to show the transition in total, but we like this enough to send it out.




A few comments on things.

1. Beckie ended up with about 1 square foot of fabric left over after doing all the curtains behind the windows. Got it out of the clearance bin and took all they had.
   
2. The Kreg Pocket Hole jig is the only way to fly when mass producing face frames for your house. No messy glue up, clamp nightmares, or joinery time.
   
3. The big box stores aren't always the best place to go for lumber. A local hardwood specialty store was actually about 15% cheaper and offered better stuff that wasn't contorted.
   
4. Used the cheap 5/8 overlay 35mm cup hinges for all doors. If anyone knows where to find 5/8 overlay hinges with 120-150 degree opening, let me know. I just want more than 100 degrees
   
5. Tool Usage Indicator - Random Orbit Sander, Drill Press, Kreg Pocket Hole Jig, Tablesaw, Miter Saw, Router, Cordless Drill
   

Daisies for the back door

The Door

Seeing that we have a Cape with a shed dormer leading to the loft with the normal roof our ceiling height upstairs isn't the best so sometimes we have to "adjust" things to make them work like the door to our loft bedroom. It couldn't be a regular door because it would either take up half the landing area or swing out into space in the bedroom. We decided on a sliding door without a pocket made to look slightly like an old barn door on a track. It uses wood salvaged from the old collar ties in the loft and scrap wood from the bead board ceiling. Geometry while fun and interesting can be quite painful at times:)

Still some more trim work around it, but the door is done. Click on the pictures for a larger image.