I have finally completed our 13-year bathroom remodel project. We started demoing our basement bathroom just after we moved into our house. We took out the sink and removed most of the drywall. We decided the shower was in okay shape and we left it as it was, although the outside had never been finished. Over the years, I have reinstalled the drywall, replastered, and painted. We also had our plumber put in new fixtures about 5 years ago. It was functional but unfinished. Just recently we decided to finally get this project done. What I needed to do was put a nice wood sill under the window and built some new cabinetry around the hot water heater which is next to the shower. I found some space next to the hot water heater where I could make some cubbies. Then I made a face frame to cover the cubbies and the hot water heater making a nice built-in piece of cabinetry. The cabinetry has three doors that I edge banded with birch plywood edge. I put up new painted poplar trim around the two doors and the shower door. I also finally used the baseboard I’ve been saving. Now we finally have a basement bathroom that is mostly finished.
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0:00 (introduction)
0:33 (demolition)
3:18 (window sill)
6:33 (cubby cabinet)
16:00 (face frame)
17:15 (door trim)
22:16 (cabinet doors)
29:30 (conclusion)
This is what happens when “the boss” pays you by the hour
How people can live without a bidet?
Hey Frank. It looks good, but the insurance adjuster in me is cringing at that cupboard you built in next to the water heater. That space isn’t there just for fun, the water heater needs a certain amount of cubic feet of airspace adjacent to it for proper combustion and radiant heat dissipation. You’ve robbed it of that airspace, and it’s going to compromise the efficiency of combustion and/or the remaining lifespan of the heater. Because you trimmed out the cabinet, it is a full built in that will have to be ripped out when you have to replace the heater.
In the interim, I recommend you make some vent holes in the sides of the cubby’s so that you at least restore the necessary airspace for the heater.
Beautiful work.
23:38 rather than doing that way and not getting a great finish, take the blade out, and set it flat on the surface outside the edge you want to trim, then angle it slightly so that the cutting surface is flush, and prop it up with your finger. Dragging it down will then perfectly slice the excess leaving a slightly undercut edge that will not catch.
I recently made a murphy bed and used edge banding for it – I think somehow we bought the same cheap iron (or at least they were made in the same factory)! When it came to trimming the excess I used a sharp chisel laid flat across the plane of the plywood board and attacking the iron-on trim at a 45 degree angle to the length I was cutting. It came off in a nice long thread the length of the panel and left a very clean blend between the ply & trim.
I've just come in from the workshop having spent all day 8+hours filling sanding the back of a piece of furniture I've rebuilt adapted for our bedroom to realise I'm the only person who has and will ever see it????
Looks like some asbestos containing black mastic by the light fixtures and wall areas.
I feel like Calvin's height can be linearly regressed to provide an exact date stamp on each clip!
Why'd it take 13 years? Because your wife suggested to get some people in to do it, and you said 'nah, I'll have it done in a couple of weekends'. ????
the "kids" watching this video "uuuugh dad did you really have to include us like that"
the sealing above the shower seems unfinished ^^
I had a consulting mechanical engineer that always use to bring up his frustration with the term: Hot Water Heater. When on long drives to site visits the ensuing dialog we had was always entertaining. Thanks.
Feeling much less guilty about the two bathrooms I've been working on since before COVID.
Can you still easily replace hot water heater?????
Very nicely finished Frank! When can I test it out? I'll bring my own towel.
Who among homeowners doesn't have a reno project that's not quite done yet. I've got one bathroom that has been mostly done for at least 5 years now. Maybe I'll get to it this summer. Maybe not. Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful work, Frank! It turned out fantastic! ????
Stay safe there with your family! ????????
Seeing someone as handy as you are taking quite some time to finish projekts is really helpfull. It gives me time to breath regarding we moved into or new, old house one year ago and it feels totally overwhelming to get stuff done O.O
If that is the water heater that was in the house when purchased. Its at the end of its life. I dont envy the guy that hasbto do the swap. He may say he wont because he cant ibstall to code.
Tiny humans! :)) Man, haven't seen them so small in a while.
Looks like someone was gearing to make the bathroom but kinda gave up, and spun to make it presentable for a sale, then gave up on that too? So many weird details.