2016 Major Bathroom Remodeling Project
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- Опубліковано 22 чер 2016
- We've needed to remodel the bathroom for years. And against all odds, it finally happened! This video chronicles the progress made. Originally recorded March through May of 2016, which explains the ~2 month break I took from UA-cam at that time.
Apologies for repeating myself at times in the video. I probably should have gone back and rewatched the previous clips so I'd remember what I had already discussed.
Underneath the plywood flooring is a subfloor made of interlocking tongue and groove boards. That's certainly not the kind of thing you'd see in most modern construction! Amazingly, all of those boards were undamaged!
Now that looks really nice. I can relate to these projects being put on hold for years. When it is just my mum and my self that does this sort of stuff, it really comes down to when you get time and hiring someone to do it is expensive. We have basically had our whole house painted.
This is actually one of the best looking bathrooms I've seen in quite some time, your contractor did an amazing job
Wow, what an improvement! That bathroom looks very nice. I especially like the shower drain; very modern, neat, and clean.
Really well done. Glad you could afford to get it remodeled. Great colors! Good luck on your new career.
Beautiful bathroom. I like the tile work. Wonderful remodeling. That window though, its very nice too.
Heyyyyyyyy man, wow looks GREAT! My favorite is the nice glass around the shower and the frame around the old mirror, and the window ledge. Great work.
Everything looks really nice - really like the tile work and the tile that you choose - Enjoy
I will also say that I LOVE those hallway lights. Wish my house had those!
Looks fantastic!
Your bathroom turned out very well! Interesting sidebar, my mom used to have an Electrolux vacuum just like yours. My dad's grandmother gave it to her after hers quit working. It's been gone for years though. My grandma still has a gray one from the early 80's, but her power nozzle no longer works.
Very good video of the long and sometimes blood pressure raising process of bathroom remodel. I went through one two years ago on the main bathroom in my house. I ended up going all the way down to the studs to avoid doubling up wall material to give as much room as possible. We found that the subfloor was rotten enough to necessitate replacing it in the whole bathroom. We ended up keeping the original medicine cabinet, after a good hosing down and bleaching it came out like almost new. That sight of all the materials in the living room sure brought back some memories. The house is now to the point there's not much left to remodel, but if I had it to do over, I'd clear out the garage and store everything out there if I could. I bought a can of frosted glass spray made by Krylon or one of the other major spray paint companies. Ended up just getting a curtain and putting it up, but I may still use it just to see what it is like.
While it manage to get left out of the video, I did shoot some detailed footage of the floor and subfloor. The subfloor was in amazing shape (it looked brand new) and built like a tank with heavy tongue and groove interlocked segments, placed together diagonally. I doubt anything today is built with that kind of quality unless specifically requested.
We had a BUNCH of stuff (cabinets, drywall, wood, mortar mix, etc.) in the garage too!
Ultimately we just put a curtain over the window. I had no idea that frosted glass spray was a thing. It would be interesting to know how well that actually works. (My guess is that getting it applied evenly would be the hardest part.)
Nice bathroom, came out very good. I like the choice of colors and tiles. I also plan to remodel my bathrooms which are of early 1980s vintage. My plan is to install a 3rd bathroom in the basement floor to use it while remodeling the bathrooms in the 1st and 2nd floor. But I am still a little reluctant because of all the dust that will settle everywhere.... In German houses ( at least the older ones such as mine) every single wall and floor is made of stone, therefore it gets way more messy/dusty than in houses with sheetrock or wooden walls and floors when remodeling. I generally try to seal the room that gets a makeover as good as I can from the rest of the house by taping off the door with 2 layers of plastic sheets when I do work that involves dust....still seeps out into the house to some degree.
They seemed to have done a very nice job with the bathroom. I'm also a fan of the long videos!
I have a photocopier in my "living" room. a proper laser one. hasn't been plugged in for a number of years, but yeah.
I left a comment asking about the sinks, but then watched more and saw you kept them. good on you. my grandma has a like-sink in her house when they built it in 1955 in salmon pink.
old light fixtures are great and should be saved and kept good for as long as possible.
...and now I'm done watching. that turned out great. Last time my bathroom was remodeled on the first floor was in 1998, according to the PVC drain pipes coming from the combined toilet and tub drains underneath and the date code on said pipes. The floor was never caulked, so if the toilet overflows for whatever reason, water gets everywhere and then starts leaking into the basement onto the floor down there. I've been planning to caulk it back up, since having found a caulk gun and a tube of white caulk, but have never gotten to it. the sink fixture will have to be replaced at some point since repeated exposure to a moist environment and various issues with the sink and such have caused it to start warping at the bottom slightly-- and then having found out it's indeed a particleboard construction really made me angry. but we have to live with it for now, since there's no money to go and fix things like that.
Just wondering, how much did this entire fiasco cost in the ballpark of? I remember when we remodeled the kitchen we were able to get away with 5 grand altogether for the granite countertop pieces and the backsplash (with a hefty discount thrown in when the contractors accidentally poked a hole in the wall to the basement stairwell and had to cover and re-paint the entire wall again.) the discount basically made the sink we got with the countertop a freebie, but the counter was put over the existing shelving in place of the aging yellow formica which was there since the mid-70s and suffered a few blows including peeling edges and burn marks in the more high-traffic areas of the counter, including the widest area of countertop where it was evident it was finally wearing down past the yellow portion in the areas encircling the sink.
now with the granite, it's hard to see if it's dirty or not, and there's slightly less room on the smaller surfaces such as the counter by the refrigerator where the toaster oven sits, to make more room for traffic to get past into the hallway. I really would have preferred to replace the formica countertop with another color of formica to keep it looking slightly original, but my mother was dead-serious of getting granite... something I resent at this point. I'm much more of a fan of formica than any sort of granite or marble surface for the sake of functionality-- and I think the decision you guys made to go with formica in the bathroom is probably the best decision that was made about anything in that bathroom aside from the re-purposing of the mirror (which came out excellently, I must say, but you could have gotten away with polishing the original frame and keeping it original, too!) and keeping the original vent grate.
You don't realize how much you miss independent controls for the light and fan until you get stuck in a bathroom that lacks it.
Also, those "soft close" drawers are amazing. Good buy.
nice job night and day difference. its a good thing you had a second bathroom since it took over 5 weeks to get done.
At the end of the video finally, and I must say, you guys really did it right. That is one very nicely done bathroom, it definitely pays to spend a bit more one better quality things, like real tile, Kohler toilets, and the Corean countertop. You could have likely spent a lot less, but it wouldn't be nearly as nice, and you'd be having to redo it again once all the cheap stuff wears out.
Great video Uxwbill!
I like the way that bathroom looks
Good luck with your HVAC course, plenty to learn and will always see you in business, probably more so in the USA than here on the other side of the big pond.
Great result on the bathroom. Thanks for sharing! I like the counter. I share many of your tastes... despising the "water-saving" faucets, supporting modern toilets (though the two at my mom's house sometimes leave small amounts of shredded paper behind after a flush), and being endlessly entertained by the soft-close cabinet doors and drawers. We have a deep drawer filled with pasta and rice (very heavy) and those cylinders just pull it closed without obvious strain. We can complain about how cheap, ugly, and perhaps boring that computers, automobiles, appliances, and whatever else are getting these days, but there are some things that are really improving! I have a suggestion, that is, to put some frosting film on the window, rather than curtains. Just my opinion that curtains may make the bathroom feel smaller, and they get dirty and smelly and moldy before too long. And, without them, you get to see that nice new window and trim!
Love the knobs the the drawers
great video.. thanks for sharing
Looks good bill
Looks like the bathroom turned out really well. Good choice on the Kohler Cimmaron toilet - it will certainly perform way better than the Kohler Wellworth Lite it replaced.
Nice bathroom and I like the long videos.
This video was oddly satisfying to watch.. Then again, I'm a sucker for older interiors like the bathroom's appearance in the beginning. lol
For the window you could just get something like a privacy shade (should be something like that available that's like a frosted blind). Very nice remodel watched it a few times really enjoyed your thorough commentary as always Bill keep em up.
We just put some curtains up and that seems to be working well. There will be a follow-up video when the bathroom door goes back into place. (There is so much paint on it that even fairly brutal -- about as brutal as anyone would dare to get with a hundred year old door -- chemical strippers are working very slowly. The good news is that we can actually see the underlying wood in some places.)
My dad works in the paint stripping industry, been doing door stripping for 22+ years you could tell me what type of would it is and the rough age of it and I might ask him what the best thing is to use for that he's well up on very very old doors and furniture as in Glasgow (and Scotland for that matter) we have 2-300 year old doors and houses so he's done alot of these things.
Does look really good dude. Pleased that you and your family are treating yourself to luxury - life is too short not too!!
OH; I am disappointed at the lack of steam/water proof audio in there, though! ;-)
Audio in a bathroom doesn't hold a lot of appeal for me. And for the few times it did, a hot chassis AA6 radio worked nicely. :-P (Yes, I did that. Don't even think of doing it yourself, because you'll die. UXWBill is a professional bad example, operating on a closed course, and capable of taking responsibility for the results of his own actions. He is not at all interested in or willing to take responsibility for the results of anyone else's actions, especially when he has said "this is stupidly dangerous, don't even think about it!" ...)
I just tried it and now the house is just rubble.
Thanks for the advice, bro. ;)
I keep toying with the idea of fitting one of my Bose weatherproof speakers in the garden as each room of my home has a multizone AV receiver in it and I occasionally think "I wish I could hear the radio properly."
I have music in my garden courtesy of the speakers (101 Music Monitors) and really enjoy them in the summer. Especially good as it means I don't have to turn the sounds up loudly in the living room so it can be heard outside, which is what my obnoxious neighbours do.
:)
I’m not a carpenter by any means but I do have some surrounding family that are carpenters and I have seen multiple houses be built and have renovations. I think the walls and ceiling definitely should have been removed to be inspected to see if there was damage behind them, to replace the vapor barrier and put in insulation (I’m amusing there probably wasn’t any). Not taking off the walls is just a case of laziness on their part and it should have been removed. On a separate note if there was mold on the walls and ceiling as you mentioned they also should have been removed or at least properly dealt with because once mold has started it doesn’t stop so it is going to continually grow until it becomes a problem potentially dangerous to your health.
If you can believe it, it looks like that bathroom is larger than my upstairs bathroom. (My house was built in 1986.)
Definitely not looking forward to the inevitable bathroom remodel, but it looks like my plans of replacing the tub with a shower are sound. This video also gave me some other ideas: keep the mirror and frame it; put cabinets in the space freed up by the tub replacement; keep my shower wand for the new shower. I'm lucky my bathroom is interior, so no dealing with windows.
I went to the trouble of properly venting my bathroom fan because it was just dumping into the attic. Fortunately, there wasn't any evidence of water damage up there. Prevention is better than treatment here.
I have a "water-saving" toilet and HATE it. This is because it's a low-rent Home Depot special that literally can't flush stuff most of the time, so have to flush twice. I figure that replacing it with a competent one will fix it. Its only saving feature is that it's elongated bowl, so maybe I'll hand it down to the basement where it'll work better.
I see I'm not unique in using the living room for non-living-room things. Currently, there's a load of boxes in one corner. I plan on setting up yet another workbench with computer junk there since that's the only unused space in the house to do that.
I'm planning on putting new flooring, including the wood underneath since the tiles don't match, and the wood is not in the best shape due to the fact the toilet overflowed so many times that water was going into my back room/laundry area. Also, I might remodel or renovate my garage since the shelving is falling apart, the back table by the door is rotted and curved, the door has mold on the outside and it's falling apart, and window is not in the best shape. For the garage, I'm planning on buying a couple of sheds to place landscaping items in one and storage in the other, place the spare wood above the garage in its own area on the side of the garage, put new shelves in, a new wood table, metal door and a screen door on the side, recessed lighting, put in a new window, insulation and drywall, put my trailer somewhere easily accessible for my gray van, and put the landscaping items to the other side. Other projects are to fix the darn taillight on my trailer since it's dim on the left side without the headlights on, and it shuts off with the headlights on, brakes applied, and no turn signal; fix up my van that has no radiator, coolant sensor, blower fan (resistor is stuck on) and front vents (vacuum hose broke off under the hood), no tie rods, and a bad leaf spring (I might replace both to be on the safe side, as well as the shocks and struts).
Cool! Glad you are enjoying the process. Have fun. (FYI) How long did it take to upload this? with frontier 3mbs down and 768kps up must been a mighty long time...
Bill, That looks amazing :-D, i would say they did an excellent job. ,
Not sure about the loo though, how do you change the sparkplug he he :-D. ,
Im not supprised that you cope well with the hvac learning, your a clever man.
I enjoyed this video a lot! please if you ever can make more like it! :)
wow amazing bathroo uxwbill. how much did a reno like that cost you?
anyways looks awesone! excellant choice for the ceramic tile, and moen hardware is top notch, one th elast brands made in the states.....or at least assembled!
i question a few things the contractors does, mainly why he did gut the entire plac.e im not a fan of "putting new stuff over old stuff". but the results seem to be good! and everything sealed.
you'll prob notice a drop in your water bill thanks to the water saving showe rhead and low flow toilet.
Did you uncover anything interesting during the demolition phase? You never know what you'll uncover during renovations of an old house. Also, allthough I'm sure its fine either way, I'm also surprised they didn't remove the old plaster ceiling before adding the new drywall on top of it. Finished product looks great!
When I go to Lowe's to buy doors or whatever I always ask if they have discontinued or blemished items, I once bought a nice $189 three door mirrored medicine cabinet for $15.
I hate low water pressure in showers. Ours is only just aderquart, plummers have been relectent to improve the situation because the water pressure is up to regs. The water pressure in our house is crap but we just live with it and have adapted over the years.
Very nice. I have a question though in the US is it normal for power points (outlets) to have no switches on them? All power points in Australia are switched.
The overwhelming majority of outlets in the US (and likely Canada, who uses the same electrical stuff we do) are not switched. For those times when a switched outlet is desired, a light switch (usually located a short distance from the outlet it controls) can be used. There are also things like the Despard device, and even some combined single outlet/switch units. All are much less common than simple duplex outlets like those seen in this video.
We do have a switched outlet in the kitchen. There is a plain light switch on one side of a two-device electrical box and faceplate. On the other side is an outlet.
The counter was very nice and loved those sinks. Fifties... what a design. Pitty, things wear down so much.
When was the house built
cool I use cb radio to Bill I like the way you done the new bathroom to and I like the mirror to it looks like new nearly
Truly there's good things and bad things about not ripping everything out but truthfully it's always good to start at the bare walls you can fix any issues that may be there and you know you have a fresh start.
I don't think you explained what's up with the roof and why that section was added??
"... I don't know that we are going to store anything under there." Good luck with that! A huge storage space like that is perfect for ALL kind of stuff... toilet paper for one. In my house that would get filled fairly quickly! Interesting vid though, how much was the bathroom refurb? That new roof thing probably makes your house one of a kind if it wasn't already (pretty sure it was)
Let's just say the bathroom refurb was "a lot". As in "decently equipped new midsize car" territory.
There are some towels in the cabinet now. Toilet paper generally lives on the window ledge, as the cat has yet to find it there.
this is going to sound rude but as when my parents had to do there hole house we did drop the celling. also hope that thay made shore to use the proper drywall that is treated for a bathroom and not just standard stuff for the rest of the house. it will mold very quickly.
Loved seeing that flowered wallpaper @ 6:52. Curious to see how old that wallpaper is, if it's original to the house.
I doubt very much that it is original. The house was built in the very early 1900s. I didn't investigate it.
I'm not sure that the original Sink that was in the Bathroom that was made around 1956 or 1957 which that's my guest and I remember watching the old B/W Movie from the 50's like Ma and Pa Kettle when they came to downtown and I watch and saw their layout include their buildings, scenery, etc the way they filmed at to their area. The Cabinet and the Sink looks related from mid to late 50's which that's my guest.
whats this? uxwbill using an HD camcorder? Either this is a rare sight or i have been under a rock for a few months :)
like the bathroom very nice! watched all of the video. how's the roach palace doing ?
Nice bathroom, glad everything is getting sorted, my house is circa. 1870's and as you probably know there is always something that needs doing. Also would you consider doing a walk around of the roach palace before it is torn down? Great Video :)
I might venture around the Roach Palace with a camera just before it is torn down.
+uxwbill Can we get a full tour of your basement? speaking of are you going to reno down there to somday?
He has stated in his videos previous to this, that there are parts of the basement that he hasnt shown and will not show.
+Tom Wilde Ah must not of scene those ones yet.
So uxwbill how has the bathroom fan been holding up. I am asking you this question cuz we need to get a new one for my bathroom. Cuz the old one the moter it locked up and now it won't even turn anymore. And they is too much rust in it. The fan is 23 years old it's been there since the house was build that year. The bathroom fans in my parents bathroom and our little downstaris bathroom were replaced when they were remodel. I know you not a big fan of new bathroom fans. But i am asking to see how the new one has hold up for you guys?
Might should have used your caprice wagon for those tiles.
Normally, construction projects are some of the last things that would interest me but UXWBill manages to make it not only entertaining, but also interesting.
As much as I love 50s stuff, when its that badly worn out, you really do need to replace it. Although I'd have also thought it more desirable to completely gut it all too, but I suppose, they know what they're doing.
has the roach palace been torn down and dumped into garbage? If so what do you do now with the roach palace property? Do you have a dumpster stored on it? also have you bought the yellow house next to the roach palace property.
None of this is any of your business. I don't own or have any dumpsters.
in an earlier video you remarked you might be ripping down the roach palace - because it is not inhabitable. - I apologize for being a little bit too curious.
Which candyham or camera did you use to record this? The sound and picture quality is amazing!
Sony HDR-PJ200
did they mean to brake the window or was u going to replace it enyway ?
The old window was in very bad shape. It also leaked air like a sieve. I expect the heating bill to go WAY down. Already it is cooler in there with the A/C on.
Register is basically just a grille laying on the floor and a defuser you can turn on and off.
Being a bathroom, and especially near a sink, dont those outlets have to be GFCI as they are within 6ft of a water source?
As explained in the video, GFCI/AFCI protection is provided by the circuit breaker protecting those outlets.
+uxwbill ah I was sorta skipping between sections
Our shower does that all the time and it is only 6 years old!
What is with the VHS tape on the top of the door frame upstairs?
I put it there for no very good reason when I was cleaning up stuff in the hallway. Nobody's noticed it yet. If ever they do, I expect that their reaction will be one of confusion, which I would find amusing.
Awesome, I like your sense of humor. I like to hide things under the TV stands in hotel rooms. I chuckle to myself that one day, someone will renovate the room, or change out the TV and find it there.
The bathroom looks like it came out quite well, nice work, you and your family will enjoy it for years to come.
Did you get a new thermostat, I though I remembered you having a Nest?
Are you uploading in HD now? Just wondering since you were uploading in 480p for a while.
This is a "special" video, so it was recorded in higher resolution than usual.
Ah. What kind of internet do you use? I have verizon FiOS.
My own connection is via ADSL. I have access to faster connections and I used one to upload this video.
+uxwbill well that's good. I can't imagine uploading an hour long HD UA-cam video on an ADSL connection would be a fun experience.
Does the tile in the shower drain come out? I'm assuming so.
It's not really meant to, but it will.
@@uxwbill It seems that you haven't uploaded anything recently. Why is that? And is the Coronavirus affecting you?
Because, as has been mentioned in other comments, I am extremely busy.
Hey Bill can you show us your antenna setup?
Nevermind just saw it later in the video ;)
What do you still use the TV antenna for?
Receiving television.
LOL! Classic! :D
is the paint An epoxy?
13:30 I guess you could say that you're a FAN of that fan.
Ha!
If you haven't already, you could put frosted contact paper over the bathroom windows.
These Wago clamps are basically the standard in Germany :P Everyone is using them.
We traditionally use so called luster terminals (still better than wire nuts :P) but these Wago things are still way more elegant.
Did you know that there are reusable ones, too?
And considering the wiring issues you had: Here it wouldn't be legal for a contractor to run any wires, unless he/she is a certified electrician (for exactly the reason you stated).
These are the reusable version. I was rather surprised that the contractor did any electrical work to be honest. In this part of the world, anyone can do their own residential electrical work. Other portions of the US may differ. I planned to quietly fix the electrical wiring mistakes made by the contractor, but he showed up in the middle of my doing so.
+uxwbill you shouldn't do your own electrical work here due to insurance reasons, or you might be the one paying if it burns down ;)
The reusable type we have looks a little different, it has latches to clamp the wires.
Isn't eight power-outlets for one small bathroom a little excessive? Having some of them so close to the sink would make me nervous. Like the tiles, though: very restful. Glad you were able to save the mirror-old mirrors always seem to work better :)
There are actually ten outlets. And yes, that is a bit excessive. Although I didn't plan it, I am a big believer in one's never being able to have too many outlets. :-)
The AFCI/GFCI should cut power (and in my experiences will) faster than the blink of an eye if it detects electricity getting away somewhere.
Here in the UK, you'd be lucky to find one "shaver socket" - often part of an over-mirror light-fitting - in an average bathroom. Not inherent stinginess, but the result of our excessively cautious electrical regulations that are wary of allowing any electricity beyond lighting in bathrooms. The regs also require household plugs to be earthed (grounded) and fused, which makes it odd that most bathroom shaver fittings seem to be unfused two-pin outlets. Go figure...
What year was the house built?
Why was the shower moved to the other side of the bath room
If you ever want to add a central vacuum system to your house, I'd happily give you a good price, the 'family, friends, and vacuum collectors' discount, even though you aren't specifically a vacuum collector, I know you've saved one or two from the trash before, the one I specifically remember was a nice Electrolux Olympia.
Why is water from your house Sleightly yellowed?
Rust and silt in the water supply, which is delivered over very old iron pipes.
How much do you know about the house before you bought it?
Back to the early 1940s, a pretty fair bit. More than I'd feel appropriate to share in a public forum. We also know that when the house was built, it was to have been larger than it is. Construction stopped because the person ran out of money.
@@uxwbill interesting. I love old houses. They always have a story to tell. They have a lot of character, but on the other hand, they have a lot of “character”.
what year was the house first built?
do you still have any room that remains from the first building?
Early 1900s, and yes, all the rooms that this house had when it was built still exist. They've certainly been remodeled, some much more than others.
my dad has a copier in his living room, doesn't everyone. nice bathroom.
Along with the exhaust fan, I'd build in a bathroom stereo system.
Everyone's different. I didn't want or need anything like that. I'm totally unashamed to admit that I sing in the shower.
***** I agree with that!
uxwbill I sing in the shower too, but I sound like a dying cat.
comment before 10:22 about mold, anything that contains of any form of mold has the chance if conditions are ripe ( ripe not right as this is a bathroom) can feed and encourage growth of such mold and can cause more misfortune like health and as well as the formentioned mold on the ceiling can cause weakness in the floor above and anything that pertains towards mold is bad news anyway
The contractor should have removed all old material including the ceiling. It is bad practice to build new on old material unless you are in a hurry. Not only do you have the old moldy drywall underneath (which is not much of a problem as long as it is dry since it is basically sealed by the new layer of material) but you also lost ceiling height and room width in an already rather small bathroom.
I certainly do not disagree. I'd have liked to take a look at what was above the old ceiling. At least the ceiling is much taller than most old bathrooms, so losing about eight inches didn't hurt too much.
was there any asbestos in there??
No.
***** ah ok it's just in australia at least pretty much any house built before the mid 80's has asbestos in it.
why does the water have a yellow tint?
Probably because of the rust.
+uxwbill from the water heater?
+Jeep Fanboy 3692 From the rusty water pipes.
Don't worry you aren't the only one with a GRAVITY DEFYING towel ring. We have 3
what is your day job dude? How old are you too? You seem young
I work in the field of information technology as a freelance computer consultant. I'm 33 as of this writing.
***** haha I work in IT too, I'm 30 btw
I've always heard Corian pronounced as "Cory Anne", so that's the way I pronounce it.
That grout line on the tiles makes me dizzy lol
Haven't watched the video yet, but please watch out for Asbestos containing materials.
13:54 fan out "was that a joke" about the fan.... lol
No, it was not meant as a joke.
How to re-tile your bathroom
That's a heck of a before and after video uxwbill.
btw
off topic but wanted to ask. could you do a Microsoft scam call video someday? I bet you could run circles around those fools.
I go out of my way to never, _ever_ answer the phone when it rings. Even if I did, I haven't had one of those calls in over a year.
***** Lucky you. At some point each year they start bothering us with calls.
$10k min then add extras ? old plaster lathe walls ,galvanized drain pipes bet it had gas lines running up to rooms if it was built pre-1920's ? remodded quite a few of these type homes in cleveland oh area def got your use out of that crapper there ! lol ..also they would've made more unnecessary dust and debri as well as set you back somewhat on yr schedule if they literally gutted the walls down to studs ,as the plaster is most likely an asbestos product as well its very sturdy looking from what it looks like ,the mold if any,should be wiped off with bleach for sure as it'll spread if moisture reaches it .
This house initially had coal heat provided by a gravity furnace. Later it got oil heat and today it has natural gas. The only stoves or fireplaces were in the kitchen and living room, and only the living room fireplace still exists. Near as we can tell it dates from around 1900-1910 and was probably one of the first homes to be built with electrical service included.
While there are things I would have done differently, I was not criticizing the contractor's decisions in this video, merely expressing some curiosity over them and my own views on the matter. I wouldn't have cared if they made a lot of dust and mess by going further into things than they did. As for the mold, we did wash down all surfaces with bleach quite thoroughly before they were built over.
handle the scandal
though by gas lines i was just saying these pre-electric power homes had gas lamps in place before electric lamps and its interesting to me at least when i found this to be the case when remodding a few old bungalows back in the day ,and how the electricians used the old gas pipes as conduits running their old knob and tube wires through them . im out west now and nobody has basements attics or the porches etc like these do ,just stirred a few memories lol
Not to be rude, but that bathroom is going to stick out like a sore thumb in the rest of your house. It is a very nice bathroom though, I wish mine looked that nice. Good luck with your HVAC course, I am looking to take one.
I didn't take anything you had to say as rude. The styling blends in well with the rest of the house. We are overhauling the old register and the original door. Both of them are really looking good.
***** Cool!
Honestly, I think you should have done it yourself... It will turn out nice I'm sure but from what I have seen so far @ 43:33 No... Could be better but it will be better than it was I'm sure...
Doing it ourselves was addressed within the first five minutes of video. It *really* didn't work out, probably because we didn't know what we were doing. Nor were we equipped to do it properly.
+uxwbill Doing the gutting yourself is hard just need to shut off that dangerous electricity and water first.
You could raise the shower head with an "S" style shower arm.
1:03:02 Seems as if someone didn't flush the toilet
Nope, that's just what the water looks like.
667th viewer.
@1:03:04 Someone forgot to flush.
I think his water is just slightly brown. It was like that out of the sink.
When I was there earlier this month I thought the same thing a few times, but it seems the water just has a tint to it. You can see it when he puts water in the sink, there is a slight tint to the water.
It's just rust and maybe some silt/sediment in the water. The water distribution system consists of very old iron pipes.
We filter the water, and it's actually quite a bit more intense before the filter.
i am going thru some bathroom remodeling as well
om if thay leave the old moldy stuf the mold will sprae to the new stuf and ruwin it to 2 the way thay are doing it is cheap and shity
"I'll take broken English for $500" Jontron (I don't know when he said this). Like seriously could you at least try to talk properly? cause I can barely understand you.
I'm not trying to be mean, but if you type like this on a daily basis it's kind of a lazy thing to do.
I have quite a few ummm "not nice" things to say about your contractor's work, but I won't. It shouldn't take over a month to redone a bathroom.
I don't mind if you want to be particularly candid about something. Send a private message if you feel the need.
50's,60's? You're sure that there's no asbestos in the bathroom?
Of course.
***** Haha!