Bob & Genny's Cabin | Clipper Mills

Checking upstairs toilet drain - looks OK

Cleaning up.

Starting bathroom demolition

Genny works on the fiberglass panels

Pulling down the fiberglass panels

Rotten

More rotten wood (and ants)

The sheetrock is coming off

Damaged studs

This sheetrock is pissing me off

Surprise! Looks like the room next door was once a utility room

Wonder where that goes?

Enough for one day

Day 1 - a good effort.

Old insulation - gone

No more tub

No more tub

No more rot - new studs

Bob works on adding a niche

Bob works on adding a niche

Niche for tub is done

Scraping up the floor

Scraping up the floor

Ripping up old vinyl floor

Clean slate

Clean slate

New fan/light wiring

Outlet, light, fan, light (and thermostat)

Power for the heated floor

The new fan/light is smaller than the old one

Hope this is where the switch goes

One hole, coming up.

Hmm, those cuts could be a bit straighter.

Genny prepares to sand the ceiling

That'll smooth things out!

Removing old bathroom window

Removing old bathroom window

Time for a new window

Up comes the particle board sub-floor

Out with the old door frame

Ready for new sub-floor

Ready for new sub-floor

First piece of sub-floor

Adding vapor barrier

Plywood sub-floor

Test fitting the tub

Test fit of tub and vanity

Test fit of tub and vanity

Spray foam

Yummy!

Old steel water lines are going bye bye.

Getting new tub/shower valve ready

Tub and water installed

We have water and drains again

installing greenboard in bathroom

installing greenboard in bathroom

installing greenboard in bathroom

bathroom greenboard looking good

bathroom greenboard looking good

Finish sheetrock

Larry tapes the corner

Taping almost done

Taped

Taped

Iced Latte in the bathroom

Painting the ceiling

New vanity

Adding insulation

Adding insulation

moisture barrier

first hardiboard

hardiboard

almost done with hardiboard

niche hardiboard

tape and thinset

First tile

First tile is placed

First tile

Starting to look like something

Cutting out opening for tub / show control

That's a lot of work!

Genny adds details!

Nice work!

Almost looks like we know what we're doing

Almost lines up (damn unlevel level)

Tub surround about half way done.

tile redo (damn unlevel level)

Alignment is much better now

Yeah! counter top!

Starting the decorative boarder

End of day 3 (or is it 4) of tiling

The niche is looking pretty good

Tub tiling done (except for grout)

Tub tiling done (except for grout)

Tub tiling done (except for grout)

Tub tiling done (except for grout)

Selfie with new mirror and light

Niche installed

Niche installed

Grouting the tub surround

Grouting the tub surround

Grouting the tub surround

Grouted

Grouted

Grouting the tub surround

Mostly grouted

Laying out ditra to fit

Laying out the heat mat on the floor

Staple it down

Make sure the wires are ready to feed to the box

Ready for some thinset

Lay down some thinset

New shower and tub fixures installed

Cutting a tile for the tolet hole

Tile layout in the bathroom

Tile layout in the bathroom

Bathroom tile going down

Bathroom tile going down

Thingset in the bathroom (part 2)

The bathroom is almost tiled

Grouting bathroom tile

Larry having fun grouting bathroom tile

Finishing up the bathroom tile grout

Genny happily cleaning grout from tile

Getting ready to install a toilet

Add some bolts

Add a wax ring

Add a wax ring part two

Set the toilet

Get everything aligned

Add a tank

Bolt it down (and realize you don't have the right water ling)

Drilling holes for the shower curtain

We have a shower curtain rod

We have a show curtain

Bathroom is finished except baseboards, oh and a door

More bathroom glamour shots

Looks like a real bathroom now

More bling in the bathroom, towel bar and towel hooks installed.

Prep for door

Fitting door

It opens!

New Bathroom door

Bob's happy with the door

Genny painting the bathroom door

Bathroom toe kick installed

Adding some baseboard in the bathroom

Genny paints behind the toilet

Bathroom wall art

Bathroom wall art, notice how the decorations bring out the colors of the shower curtain.

Bath - Finished

Bath - Finished

Bath - Finished