Check out the backerboard walls

Here are some shots of the backerboard attached to the studs in the shower area. Not the easiest stuff to work with by yourself especially when you have to raise it up. I used a diamond blade on my 4.5 inch grinder to do most of the cuts.

You can see from some of the photos that it becomes important when laying out your plumbing and electrical to not position them running through the studs close to drywall seems. If you do, and of course I did, and you can't screw off an edge it will tend to bow out a bit, making your end product look like garbage.

Another lesson was to make sure that your nailers and perfectly flush with adjoining studs if you are using them to attach the edge of a piece of drywall or Duroc too. This too can cause a discrepancy in your tile or walls. We'll see what the final product looks like, and how much it really mattered.

Oh yeah, you can tell that I had to take out all of the electrical work I had already hooked up, since I needed to use my roto zip to edge out the drywall.

Electrical is Done!

Well, it took me a little bit but I have finished running a new circuit to my bathroom, with a ceiling light, and fan. In addition I put in some receptacles off of the old kitchen line. I also added in a switch/receptacle into my back attic storage area.

Getting the electical in place

New GFCIs in the kitchen. OY.

Roughing in the bathroom


Another angle. Gotta tell ya I am never buying the crappy blue plastic electrical boxes ever again. Complete garbage.

Roughing in the Medicine Cabinet

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Insulation finishing up

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Day 40

As you can see from the pics there has been quite a bit accomplished in the past several weeks, with still quite a bit more to go, but soon it will be time to start the process that will go the fastest.

Here you can see that the attic space behind my bathroom is getting some needed ventilation as well as insulation. Insulation you say? Yes apparently it can greatly reduce the cost of your heating bills. What will they think of next.

You can see that the insulation on the attic line is complete. I also put in some blow in insulation in the stud cavities that on the floor. Some go down all the way to the first floor, and others only go down a few feet. Fire blocking had apparently not caught on with full steam yet back in ol' 1893.

As with the picture above you can see the beginnings of some built in shelves to add a bit more usability to my already tiny bathroom.

Day 3 of the Plumb Job

Here is some information about PEX.

Shower mixer in place, things are starting to shape up.




Drain for the shower




What a great toilet this is going to make.

Day 2 of Plumbing

So on the first day there was a lot of demolition, and figuring out what was going on with evyerthing.

This is a great shot of my bathroom and what a mess it is. You are looking at the back wall where a cast iron tub used to be.

Here is a shot in the basement of some of the mess of galvanized pipes that had to be dealt with.

What else would Ray do with the garbage, throw it out the window.

More of a mess in the basement

What a great looking lead J trap to sit underneath a cast iron claw foot tub.

Things are starting to take shape with some new waste drainage and you can see some PEX in the background.

Tie in from PEX into the galvanized. I wonder if that stuff on the pipes is ok??

And so it begins again

Here's a quick shot to show the breadth of what is to come ...