Our New Shower

I've been super busy this weekend, homeowner activities mostly. But I thought I'd take a moment to throw up some pictures of the process for fixing up our shower, in case anyone was interested. Are you interested? Yeah, I thought you were.

So here's the 'before' picture. The plan was to take down the wall and expand the shower. So let's go through and see how it all worked, out.








Day 1: demolition. This is what happens when you let some contractors take out a wall. That tall copper stuff in the middle, that's the old plumbing for the old shower, just sticking out of the ground. All done nice and neat.






Day 2: Plumbing. Here you can see where they opened a hole in the floor and moved some pipes around. The drain, primarily, and also some pipes running up into the new wall. They also went in through the ceiling on the first floor to get to some extra pipes.




Day 3: Less impressive today, mostly patching up the holes they made after running plumbing the day before.





Day 5: The shower pan has been put in and the valves put on the wall. Big, manly valves, too, nothing like the piddly little mixer we had before. BEEFY!



Day 6: They started putting the 'hardy backer' on the wall. It's a cross between drywall and concrete. They also started building the bench.











Day 7: More hardy backer, and you can see the shower boxes up in the wall, and the completion of the benches.






Day 8: Tile! Our guy stayed extra long today and look at the progress. It's actually starting to look like a shower, eh?






Day 9: Finishing the tile and putting in the grout. Good stuff. Very pretty.






One last picture. I took this after telling Jessie not to turn on the water. She then turned on the water anyway. It worked for a while, but then we couldn't turn it off. I had to hold the showerhead to divert the water down into the drain. It made a bit of a mess. Eventually, we got it off, but it took some finessing.

The next day we went off to go hiking, and on the way there we got a call from the contractor. They wanted to make sure we knew that they were missing a shim to properly attach the handle to the valve. We shouldn't turn on the shower because it would be really hard to turn off. Jess had to pull over because she was laughing too hard. So, yeah, I get to tease her about that a lot.

Micro-News: We went hiking this weekend, just to get out and get some exercise. Very pretty hike along a river, all swollen from the recent rain. I also had a bout of extreme productivity. I made a list of stuff to do that was 20 items long and got at least half of them crossed off, including replacing the flapper plugs for two different toilets so they don't leak anymore. Also some yard work. We're feeling better after being sick, too. I went to a fighter training studio to see what it was like now that I'm not doing Wing Tsun anymore. Lots of hard training, which was good, but the sparring was real boxing-style fighting, with real, proper hits and everything. I'm not sure if I liked it or not.

And that's enough for now. I'm tired.

-N