Nice job Garrett, good choice of colors.
I'm a big fan of beadboard also, both floor to ceiling as you did and half wall with a chair rail for other than bathroom aps....makes a nice quick waynes coating (sp?)
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Nice job Garrett, good choice of colors.
I'm a big fan of beadboard also, both floor to ceiling as you did and half wall with a chair rail for other than bathroom aps....makes a nice quick waynes coating (sp?)
95spfldmax
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Nice work, dude.....looks great.........
its actually a 3 piece all fiberglass and bulsa construction. it was phenominally made and required no bracing underneath (how some require a bed of mortor or similar). it had magnets built into the 3 pieces so they 'clicked' together, no lining them up or anything.
top left:
http://www.oasisbath.com/mptub.htm
i think they're tough to come by for the general public but my father being a plant engineer and architect has a lot of connections with that type of stuff. both the sink and tub have pop up/down stoppers so no linkages to mess with.
beadboard is real wood too, none of the cardboard stuff would want to see how it'd hold up in a bathroom either.
much appreciated.
yea, ours was to save time. none of us are good mudders so only a small amount had to be done with the beadboard.
we may be putting the house on the market in the upcoming years so we are going with neutral colours. add a painting and a new shower curtain and it looks to be a different colour.
thanks man.
another couple things. first time using push-on sharkbite (brand) pex connectors. holy shit that makes stuff easy. I have full access to everywhere i used it so if something leaks i'll know and be able to fix it. but i'm not sure i'd ever go back to solder connectors after that. these are reusable and just push together. work with copper or pex tubing.
http://www.sharkbite.com/
the floor was also marble and in great shape just ugly as hell. so a prepped and put down vinyl marble coloured stick down tiles by armstrong that were their luxury line, and groutable. no one thats stepped in the room has been able to tell they are stick down. $1~ a foot and i had an inexpensive but great looking floor. and if i ever chip, crack or ruin a tile, super easy replacement.
06VMAXIMUS
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Yeah a guy I work with uses the sharkbites and swears by em, he has 30 rental properties, and he said he can change a hot water tank in no time!
seriously. its nuts.
my main shutoff leaks ever so slightly. i can put a ball shutoff now downline from the main in about 3 minutes. nuts.
before it woulda been difficult with still some water coming through trying to solder.
I can help here: wainscotting.
From the pic you would never know it was vinyl tile. You probably could have resurfaced the marble w/a side grinder, I have two, Milwaukees, one for sanding & one for grinding. A smart move to do the refit for best resale appeal. Weird stuff doesn't sell easily.
I just added-up my receipts to this point & it's just below $5K, but that's a new concrete floorpan & drain line for the shower, new toilet flange into the waste pipe, Moen shower valve & adjustable arm double showerhead, cherry wood vanity & porcelain Euro curved-front sink, porcelain tile floors & walls, American Standard toilet & faucet, milk-glass sconce lighting, dual medicine cabinets, and contractor labor included. I am doing the medicine cabinet installation, the vanity install, & the wood trim where the Rx cabinets are going, a wall unit w/mosaic tile trim. Almost done, the grout is dry & the painting was to be done today. Still have a custom swing door shower enclosure to have built, frameless tempered glass, = a Carozzeria wheel $.
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Theres no way i coulda done that at that labor point up here. prices are nuts, good for you man.
also the marble was purple. had to go!
The PEX stuff is what a lot of builders here in FL are using in low-density residential housing. It's quick, easy, and efficient. It's been a few years since I was inspecting high-rises, but the PEX wasn't used then, and I would have to open a code book to see if it is today. I am sure a plumber/pipefitter will weigh-in on this.
I have an acetylene 'trench-tank' I bought off an old retired union plumber years-ago, it sweats anything residential in seconds, much-quicker than a Bernz-o-Matic (Bernz-o-Matics were manufactured in the same city as Cycle-One-Off is today). I like the ritual of cutting the tubing w/a wheeled pipe cutter, de-burring, burnishing, the flux and solder, the way the molten metal flows by capillary-action into the couplings, then being careful not to move it while the joint cools. Copper and brass are the long-term solution, but PEX is convenient and quick.
I have an acetylene 'trench-tank' I bought off an old retired union plumber years-ago, it sweats anything residential in seconds, much-quicker than a Bernz-o-Matic (Bernz-o-Matics were manufactured in the same city as Cycle-One-Off is today). I like the ritual of cutting the tubing w/a wheeled pipe cutter, de-burring, burnishing, the flux and solder, the way the molten metal flows by capillary-action into the couplings, then being careful not to move it while the joint cools. Copper and brass are the long-term solution, but PEX is convenient and quick.
I knew it was something wierd like that....thanks
Something very satisfying about properly sweating a copper joint....you just know it's there for the long haul. I have to shovel up the solder drops (don't want to use to little! :biglaugh
but the real pros leave just the thinest spider wire of shiny solder....a thing of beauty to watch! unk:
