Flooring, cabinet and sink...almost a bathroom
After breakfast today, KT convinced me that it would be better to work on the bathroom today than go play in water in my kayak. Something about working now meaning I wouldn't have to work later was mentioned and combined with no caffeine today I immediately agreed this was a good idea. Actually it turned out quite productive. Originally we were planning on putting a built in cabinet in the bathroom complete with laundry chute to the laundry room directly below. Unfortunately, there is a 220V power supply for the dryer running right in the path of where the chute would go. Not good. I decided I didn't want to deal with rewiring electrical and that we've been making do quite well without a chute for some time so no laundry chute. Consequently, a quick stop later at our local furniture place (Village Woodworks) and we had a very nice mission style cabinet. I'm going to make it look built in anyway. Additionally, we picked up a pedestal sink at Rejuvenation, very nice, so now all I need is a faucet with porcelain cross handles. That's turning out to be the difficult item. Ahh, but that's 2 out of 3 items of the title you say. I started in on the flooring as well. Backer board is down and the heating mat is going down tomorrow with tile to follow shortly thereafter. Warm floors in the winter are going to feel decadent. I'll take some pics of the bathroom after everything is in.

Rub-a-dub-dub here is a tub....

Big progress today, sort of. The 1955 American Standard, cast iron, curb special (it's free don't you know) has been placed in its new residence. Still have to hook up the drain line, but the heavy part is done. All 350 pounds of it went into where the existing tub used to be with 1/8 inch to spare. My neighbor came over and helped me haul it out of the basement and place it. Surprisingly I think it took us all of about 5 minutes, literally to get it in. I'll be finishing the plumbing and starting the tiling after work now. Realistically, this tub saved us a bunch being free--as if that wouldn't be the case. It's in almost showroom finish still after 50 some odd years of use. It's exactly what will work in our plan for the bathroom, and I really like the fact that we were able to take something and keep using it. I know this always can't be the case.

I'm conducting a virtual soak here while enjoying some local suds.