DIY Renos

For now, we'll go with the standard Canuck pablum decor.

If you concentraite on the reason you are sitting there, the decor won't matter.
Women should not be allowed in home improvement stores. If they enter the bouncer should toss them out. If for some reason they get past the security forces, they should not be allowed to talk or point at anything.

 

My wife complains about one of her 5-year old nieces, always asking "WHY?" Taking my wife to an Improvement Store is like serving time in Purgatory. Talk about getting a head-start...

 

Drywall going up in the new bathroom, at last! I took my time making a decent hinge-mortising template for the router, cut them into my own machined door frame (I hate those painted finger-jointed frames/boards from the Home Despot stores) and installed it.

When I took off the old cement siding years ago and replaced it with insulation foam (exterior is 3" all around) and plastic siding, I discovered that the house was originally done in cedar shingles, so I kept a bunch for shimming doors/window frames, etc. Handy as heck! Way too pricey for the little package you get at HD!

Back to work...

 

Somewhere in this thread, I wrote about different Drywall Jacks that you could build. There's some cheap and nasty ones for average jobs, and some expensive ones for contractors.

I subscribe to MotherEarthNews' DIY Email, and I just got their latest, with a nice 1990 article using drywall nails. I think drywall screws were around in the 1980s IIRC, which is what I'm using. Anyway, the images (use their Images link - right click - new tab or window). If you use their Print, the images aren't included, so you'll have to right-click on the images/pics and Save As...

The drywall jack can handle 4'-6" X 12' drywall - for walls or ceilings! It shows up in a nice color drawing and picture. Looks simple enough and easy enough to build. I have about 30 of those big sheets to install, so this heavy-duty beast should do the job nicely:
http://www.motherearthnews.com/do-it-yourself/how-install-drywall-zmaz90jfzshe.aspx

There's also a sketch for the 2 X 4 T-jacks. Nice refresher article.

 

Should finish the drywall today, including mudding, paint tomorrow. Final plumbing connections after the paint dries. Sure glad I didn't install the tub, sink and toilet. What a nightmare that would have been! :banghead3:

At least the old Juan still works... The new stairs go where it is, so it had to go. All those moments of reflection down the drain...

 

All those moments of reflection down the drain...

In the long run, that's where they are supposed to go! Just make sure those drains----drain!
As before, just reading this wore me out. I need a coffee and a nap! Nice work.

 

I have to have a chat with the SWMBO about towel racks so I can put some wood behind the drywall, but that won't hold up production. She doesn't want any cabinets in the bathroom. Medicine cabinet included! We figured the kitchen and upstairs bathroom would be better for a medicine cabinet. Just a mirror, and a shelf for razors/soaps/shampoos. All the 'vanity' stuff will be upstairs.

Back to work...

We've got a nice oak/coloured opaque glass door for the bathroom, so we could have natural light in the hallway, and I had a set of the old glass door knobs to fit with a modern latch. The glass will have a matching curtain as the bathroom window. She likes showers, I like soaking in the tub with a glass of scotch. The shower goes upstairs.

Pictures after painting.

 

Medicine cabinets seem to have gone the way of the Doo Doo bird. Both kids in Illinois have new homes they designed and helped build. No medicine cabinets. Since we've retired we both need a dumpster to keep our drugs in! Medicine cabinets are a good place to hide that stuff. Besides something needs to be behind the mirror.
We are the opposite when it comes to gettin clean. Wife likes to soak in a tub. I like to let the dirt run down the drain in a shower. I usually do this every spring and fall. Do my drinkin before and after.

 

So far, the only pill I take is the occasioanl aspirin or a tylenol (muscle cramps from excersise or pushing my limits. Sometimes the wife gets to be a pill, but that's getting rarer as she mellows out... (shhh!)

I take showers in the summer, but I really enjoy a long soak, especially in a castiron tub - lasts longer. A good cigar, and glass of Glenlivet - Heaven! And with the new bathroom fan?!?! Sounds dreamy to me!

 

I'll admit, miss that ole clawfoot tub back in Illinois. It was so deep I could swim in it. I added a shower in the basement for when I got really dirty working.
Down here, I often use the garden hose out in the sun to get the top layers of dirt and sweat off. But there are only a few minutes when it's not too hot or too cold. As Goldylocks said. "it has to be just right".

Sometimes my wife is a pain in the butt. After half a century I'm getting used to her. They don't make pills for that.
Couple days ago I had to have blood drawn. Nurse asked how long we've been happily married. I said "about 25 years." Wrong answer!

 

Oh fyck! My ribs are hurting! ROTFLMFAO!!!!

And you survived!!!!

 

And your bubble bath, and rubber ducky, rite?....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf9d7rSf_Ks

 

Bout time you chimed in Fat Tedy. Altho that's not a pretty mental picture.
Two hours ago I was supposed to take my wife into town to see why her phone is out of minutes. She got it filled at the Box Store only a few days ago with a 30 day card. Seein as how I'm livin on borrowed time, I better go!
I never taught her how to drive because i was afraid she'd run away from home. I lived by the motto "keep em barefoot and pregnant." She still don't have any shoes but I stopped worryin about that other part.

 

I'd like a TV in there so I could watch 'Convoy' or Kristoferson (Rubber Duck) in his flick with Willie Nelson - Outlaw Justice. Those two together are too funny. Trouble is the water doesn't stay warm enough for 90 minutes. I'd have goosebumps on my goosebumps!

 

With the flat screen TV's it's an easy install. Back years ago I had an electric dipstick heater for my car. Maybe you could find one of those up there to put in the tub. Just be carefull where ya stick it!