I just laugh at myself, thinking this would be a two-week job. It turned into most of a month. But, as is often the case with remodels, once we got started it became very clear that the easiest thing to do is rip the entire thing out to the studs and redo everything.

Luckily, my contractor friend will let me pay him after my work season is over in July, otherwise I never could've afforded this. Glad I did it! The rat nest under the bathtub and in the wall was so out of control. In the process, we also entirely redid all the plumbing under the whole house, and fixed a bunch of sketchy wiring, so the benefits go way beyond the bathroom.

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#RatShitRemodel concludes (for now).

My contractor friend has to leave, and I'm getting ready to snowbird my way back north pretty soon, but we have the bathroom at a stage where it can quickly be completed when I get back.

The shower pan is in, the plumbing is all done, the wiring has all been upgraded, the sheet rock and insulation are done. (I finished that today.) There's no window because we just ran the sheetrock straight over the old one for now. Once the new one arrives, we will reframe the rough opening cut the sheetrock back around it.

The faucet and the handles on the vanity are not installed yet, obviously, but they're a nice looking, classy design in flat black. The shower will have a sliding glass door and we put in a lot of blocking for things like towel racks, grab bars and shelving.

It is purple, because that's the color of moisture resistant sheet rock. Depending on the brand, it also comes in green or blue.

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The #RatShitRemodel is proceeding apace. I did the last of the demolition today while Michael got all the plumbing hooked up (pics TK tomorrow, not yet in this photo). I found a remnant of the original knob-and-tube wiring from the 1940s when I tore open the wall. I'm leaving a little chunk in there.

Photo shows the open floor joists after we sistered new ones onto the old ones and soaked the old ones in linseed oil (why they're so dark) just to make them last a little longer, but even the ones that have been subjected to plumbing leaks had considerable integrity. I wouldn't normally have bothered to do this, but I had some old linseed oil I wanted to get rid of and this seemed like a good use for it.
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