Second Floor Bathroom

The beginning of the gutting. The shower stall was starting to rot out in the walls, which isn't surprising because it was a very cheap stall that was installed poorly. I particularly like the shot of the toiled in the shower as I was trying to drain all the water out of the trap.

This is what I found under the floor. The first shot is particularly telling, as it shows what I'm going to call "Stupid Plumber Tricks(tm)" that are the reason the bathroom needs to be gutted in the first place.

A sequence of shots showing the removal of the old ceiling and the installation of the new vent and ceiling. It will get actually *finished* when the rest of the bathroom is renovated, since painting things just to turn around and muck them up again is silly.

A bunch of shots documenting the current state of the bathroom, pre-renovation. The full set of sample tiles are there, also a good shot showing the old floor after we went kinda nuts stripping the old thinset off of the tiles.

These are some pictures of the piles of stuff growing in the foyer for the bathroom renovations, and of the new white hex tiles sitting on the floor.

A shot showing where I cleaned the mastic off the tile floor with the adhesive remover. Piece of cake, assuming you're wearing a VOC gas mask.

Three pictures showing the way it started out. It has been mildly cleaned since I bought the house, but since we're about to gut it, we haven't put much effort into that...

A couple pictures showing where the tiles are being chipped out. The second picture shows WHY we'd want to go to that much effort - the original tiles are still under there. Once we know what the pattern looked like, we know what to restore to. Unfortunately, it appears there's little chance we'll be able to actually salvage the bottom layer of tiles, and they also appear to be just this side of impossible to get new. *sigh*

We finally removed the clawfoot tub from the bathroom. It was waiting on me to get into the floor and cut one of the water lines that had no valve in it. Plumbing I can do... but working with a torch in a floor/ceiling is a royal PITA.

Here you can see the Greek Key pattern around the edges of the floor. It exactly matches the front foyer, except for color - blue vs. green.

Here you can really see how much of the tiling we've gotten rid of.

Two shots really showing the old tiles underneath.

A bunch of shots showing the bathroom pre-anything.