In honour of our destroyed bathroom, post a pic

[Briarius]

I'm standing where the tub used to be



Weekend project my ass...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. OK.......here's one of our house! Or did you want one of me? Anyway.....

[Briarius]

5. looks nice

want to trade? :D

[CaliforniaPeggy]

31. Sorry, Briarius!

It's a custom house, so no can do......

:hug:

[Briarius]

33. Thanks anyway

it may be a pain, but at least it's ours. Btw, beautiful sunset pics!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

38. Oh, thank you! Glad you like them!

I have to have a hobby, now that the house is done!

:pals:

[LSK]

37. 2 garages?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

40. Yes, we have two garages.....

They buffer the rest of the downstairs from the street, and of course, they provide for a LOT of off-street parking....

My husband has the big double one, and I have the single.....

BTW, my study (where I am right now) is directly over the double garage!

:woohoo:

[donheld]

46. It is I

[CaliforniaPeggy]

47. So nice to put a face with a name, my dear donheld!

:hi:

[Briarius]

48. Well nice to see ya

hey, wanna lay some flooring? :D :P

[texas1928]

56. OOOO

You have two garages.

OOOOO

[CaliforniaPeggy]

60. My dear tex!

Yes, we do! And they have cars in them! It is a wonderful thing to have enough storage elsewhere that you don't need to use your garage for that...

:hi:

[Ptah]

2. Work it, bud.

:thumbsup:

[Briarius]

6. I'm all done working for today...

the only thing I'm working now is on this Jim and Coke :D

[HEyHEY]

3. My addition is not going well either

[Briarius]

7. I guess so

btw do you have a permit for that dead body in the cart?

[HEyHEY]

8. oo, I didn't see that

I wouldn't have posted it

[Briarius]

9. maybe that's some Canadian thing, permitless dead bodies

I don't think that'd fly here in Connecticut. Either way I like what you've done with the place, it's much more "airy"

:evilgrin:

[GOPisEvil]

4. What my garden looked like in August...

I took all the remains of the deceased plants out to the curb today. x(

[Briarius]

10. That looks very pretty

I have pretty much a brown thumb, so I'm impressed!

[GOPisEvil]

12. So do I. But, here's a tip: plant native perennials.

That gives you a major advantage. Just stick 'em in the ground and cut 'em back every year in the winter. When spring comes, the plants come back. The ones here are even used to being dry most of the summer. In fact, the garden really didn't come in until it got hot and dry.

What I hate is the weeding, watering, and other upkeep.

Oh, and I didn't plant these either. I had a roommate who was way into gardening, he did all the work. ;)

[Briarius]

17. Thanks for the tip

and that's the best kind of garden, someone else's :P

[GOPisEvil]

18. Unfortunately, he took his gardening skills to Costa Rica, the bastard.

:P

[Bridget Burke]

59. More tips....

If a plant does well, plant more like it. If a plant croaks--it was not meant to be! Natives are great but some imports have adapted well.

We haven't had a hard freeze in Houston for years. So nothing dies back in the winter. Summer is hotter than hell but can be very dry or very wet.

[ScreamingMeemie]

11. This is my refrigerator....

[Briarius]

13. looks like our fridge!

covered in kiddo stuff and magnets!

[ScreamingMeemie]

15. It drives MrG insane...so we cut a deal. I keep the "front" of it

relatively clean..for him:



And I get the side to keep messy. ;) :hi:

[tuvor]

14. That was us last year.

The wall with the window had to come out entirely in order to get our two-piece stall installed. We spent two or three days with one side of our bathroom pretty much exposed to the elements at a time when the nights were still chilly.

Ah feel your pain.

[Briarius]

16. nice

Ours was what must have been a several year leak. Floorboards and subfloor were totally rotten. It's sad because the floorboards look like they could have been original 1800s tongue and groove. At least the joists are all ok, other than the one that the tub installer cut in two to run the drain pipe :crazy:

[tuvor]

19. You will get through it, and it will be worth it.

Good luck!

[Briarius]

20. Thanks, I know it will

cause I'm doing it right. It's just a PITA for now

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

21. What my totally ignored back yard looked like in September.

[Briarius]

22. That's really pretty!

That makes me think of the insane 1000 piece puzzles. :D

[ronnykmarshall]

23. Pain in the ass huh?

Here's pic from my part of my whole house re-model ....

[Briarius]

24. I know gay guys get crazy with the decorating

but damn! :evilgrin:


How long did that take you to finish?

[ronnykmarshall]

almost a year!!!

We did the whole damn place.

[Briarius]

29. wow that's crazy

did yours start as a weekend project too? ;)

:P

[jobycom]

25. Fixer upper

From Mississippi


That one is right around the corner from this one, which is where I spent the first four years of my life.

[LynzM]

26. Aw, Joby....

:hug: Wow, dude.

[jobycom]

28. Hey, that's nothing

I didn't own either house, and don't even live there anymore. One DUer has a beautiful pic of the slab she returned home to, where her house for 19 years had stood. Just a bit of nostalgia for me, for others here it's a lifestyle.

[LynzM]

30. I'm glad for you, to hear that

I can't imagine what it's like to return to ... just, nothing. I've seen some of those pictures you mentioned; they're heartbreaking :(

[jobycom]

32. They are heartbreaking

Even when it's your memories washed away, it is depressing. I cried when I first starting seeing the pictures, and I cried more when I went home and saw it all (and it's far worse than the pictures can show--the pictures are of what's left, not what's gone). But it's infinitely worse for the people still there. I didn't lose anything but memories.

Oh yeah, my favorite restaurant!

[merh]

39. They have reopened Pirates Cove

They had it on WLOX the other night. It is not in it's original location, I think they said it was at the industrial complex they had set up for businesses. I sure would like to find it, I so love their roast beef poboys & a cold barqs in a bottle. :9

The good thing is, they have reopened.

:hi:


My fixer upper? :crazy:





Actually, all of the debris and the slabs have been cleared and I have the dirt lot!

[jobycom]

41. Holy Smoke, that's great news!!

Now I'll wish I wasn't a vegetarian!!

Oh well, french fries and a cold Barqs... that'll work!

So is the dirt lot good or bad news? Are you getting closer to rebuilding yet?

[merh]

43. Not close to rebuilding

Still trying to get funding - insurance company has denied me and I'm working on trying to get a low interest loan from the SBA.

Dirt lot is good because it is a heck of a lot better than coming out to the debris and rubble.

thanks for asking :pals:


I knew you would like the news about Pirates Cove. I hope to make it over there some day soon. :9


:hi:

[LynzM]

44. Baby steps, right?

Aw merh, that pic makes me so sad every time I see it. :hug: I'm glad to hear you're cleared out. Are you planning to rebuild in that same spot, or have you not decided that yet?

[merh]

45. Definite baby steps and that is okay, as long as I keep taking them.

I hope to rebuild on my lot and am still working on it. Lord knows when it will happen, but it will happen.

Power of positive thinking and all of that! ;-)

thanks LynzM for the hug and care. :hug:

[LynzM]

49. Good luck with the loan!

It must be so frustrating trying to deal with the insurance run-around on this. Oy. Hey, if you get to rebuild, you get exactly what you want, right? Positive thinking is a good thing :) I hope things start to come together for you soon!

[Briarius]

27. Those are so sad...

they remind me of the after pics from when tornados would hit back home.

[stlsaxman]

34. I'll be doing exactly that same thing in a couple weeks... but times 2!

Both my and my tenants bathrooms need re-doing because the idiot who installed the shower stalls didn't mount them to cement board. And of course the floor joist beneath the wet-wall that was sliced completely out is causing the entire wall on both floors to sink into the basement! Cool, huh?

So I've decided that with the remodeling I'll be turning the whole bathrooms (they're small) into "wet-rooms". tile the entire room to shoulder height and slant the floor to the drain, using only a shower curtain instead of a stall.

Wish me luck!

BTW- ever consider using PEX hose that is "potable/hot water" rated instead of copper piping? I'm considering it to re-do the entire in-coming plumbing.

[Briarius]

36. Good luck!!

I've never heard of PEX, but almost anything has to be better than copper! I'm a big PVC fan myself, that has to be the easiest stuff there is!

[momophile]

35. here's my cat working on the front steps

[Briarius]

42. lol, what a cutie

my next project is a cat door to the basement, hopefully it won't be so bad :crazy: Did you have permanent paw prints or was it set by then?

[momophile]

55. No kitty prints in cement. BTW...

did you bust out the old tub? We are in the process of redoing our bathroom as well but I think we've decided against ripping out the tub and just getting one of those 10-year coats put on it. We do have to pull a lot of tile off first to make sure there is no rot. It's tile from the 60s so we want to put it back on to keep the original feel of the bathroom. Did you have to deal with tile too?

[Briarius]

62. The tub is sitting in the kitchen actually...

And it's coated steel, so it's a pain to move. No tile, we just had the plastic liner glued to the walls luckily.

[tyedyeto]

50. Our project is more than a weekend one, it's been ongoing for

2 years and not done yet.




edit: typo

[LynzM]

51. Wow, dude....

Are you reno'ing a whole house, or what? That looks like a lot of work!

[tyedyeto]

53. Yep, the whole enchilada little by little

BTW, that was not me in the pic...I'm not even a dude. My s/o and I are doing most of the work but once in a while will hire a friend to help us out. That's him in the pic.

[LynzM]

54. Gotcha....

I call everyone dude, regardless of gender :) Good luck with getting your house done, that sounds like a long, but hopefully worthwhile, project!

[Lochloosa]

52. I don't have a pic. But right now I have no Kitchen.

I have torn out all of the old cabinets, flooring, sink, sheetrock and ceiling. The cabinets are due Feb. 23rd.

I had to build a portable sink with two five gallon buckets under it. It's on casters so I can move it out of the way.

This is NOT a weekend project!

[LynzM]

57. Oh, wow...

That is definitely not a weekend project! Best of luck to you with it all! Are you doing all the work yourself, then? I'm impressed!

[MadHound]

58. Ooo, bathroom remodeling/repair. My favorite, NOT

Of course it's not a weekend project, silly wabbit! There are special corallaries to Murphy's Law that deal exclusively with home repair and remodeling. Especially if you have an older house like I do. Things like non-standard fixtures and joints that no modern replacement will match. Or my favorite, an old house built when lumber was cut to true dimensions, and now that you have to replace some, well you're going to come up an inch short.

Did the bathroom on my old house, and it took about a month, on and off. Replace a wall, part of the floor, new tile, new flooring, new cabinets, etc. etc. Wound up one late night towards the end sealing our kitten(at the time) in the wall. Luckily all she did was take a nap, wake up and become quite vocal before I actually started putting the tile on.

Good luck, and have fun, I don't envy you, but will be in your shoes here in another couple of years.

[Briarius]

63. no animals trapped in our project so far,

but I haven't closed up the walls yet. I'm just glad that it's not any worse. The joists are ok and the tub didn't end up in the basement or anything like that!

[Gormy Cuss]

61. Nice joists.

I'm trying to be positive here. Now I'm SURE I'll never tackle a plumbing task. :wow:

[Briarius]

64. I never get tired of hearing that...

:evilgrin:

[no name no slogan]

65. It never is a weekend project

back when I was a homeowner, we had to repair our basement bathroom. This was the one with the shower, so we didn't have much of a choice unless we wanted to take baths for the rest of our lives.

We were having flooding problems from the shower, so we had plumbers look at it. Turns out our pipe to the main sewer had collapsed, and sunk below the level of the connection. So we not only tore out the ENTIRE bathroom, we also had to rip up half the basement and re-do the pipe all the way out to the street. All of this during a Minnesota winter, mind you, which involved digging up our front yard.

Altogether, it cost us over $30k to fix. And we still never finished the bathroom and basement. My wife and I split up less than a year later, and sold the house as-is for about $90k less than it would have been worth had it been fixed.

Weekend project my ass, indeed.

[hippywife]

66. Here's my new kitchen

still need to tile the counter. We took a long weekend to put in new cabinets which required replumbing the kitchen. Another weekend to do the wallpapering and some of the painting. The rafters are now boxed in and painted white. Also put up crown moulding where the wall meets the rafters and painted it white. Still lots to do but we're almost there.

[Briarius]

69. Very nice!

I wish our kitchen was that big and open!

[hippywife]

70. The pic is a little deceiving.

The whole house is only about 850 square feet so the living room and kitchen are one big room. It's a story and a half modified A-frame with the master bedroom in the loft. Behind the kitchen/living room is a small spare bedroom and a big bathroom with a niche for the washer and dryer. It's on peer and beam. My husband designed and built it himself with 50% recycled building materials.

It's tiny because he wasn't expecting to get married again. But we make do very well in our cozy little home.

[Briarius]

71. That's not so much smaller than our half of the house here

We own a two family. Your house sounds really nice, I like the exposed beams and all that, it looks like it would feel very open.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

67. How come you have a TP holder where the

tub was?

I mean. Just askin'

:shrug:

[Briarius]

68. it was just outside the tub

Where you can see the green papered drywall is where the tub was, silly!