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.

Mmmmm......Thinset.......

It's creamy, not unlike cream cheese actually, but I don't recommend eating it.

Anyway, I spent 5 hours last night getting the plumbing finished for the tub. Had a bit of an issue with leaks on the threaded fittings (not a fan of Price Pfister). Just didn't seem to be able to get the right amount of teflon tape on them, or tight enough or some combination of the two. But eventually I succeeded.

With all the plumbing in, and not leaking, the rest of the conrete board went up and shortly thereafter the tile. We're going for the classic, early 20th century look in the bathroom to match the age of the house. The glass tile is the nod to the modern and it just makes it sparkle a little bit more. Sparkly is good especially with the light from the skylight. Now for the other 2 walls around the tub and I can grout. I had hoped to get the entire tub finished before the wife got back from her work trip, but she'll settle for 1/3 done.