We may be crazy

Way overdue. Apologies. But I honestly think Mike and I may be clinically crazy for some of the projects we take on. It's been a little too hectic to keep up but it's calming down (just in time for it to rev up again though, right?!)

So we started our bathroom demolition like I said. So here are the pictures of our Mike's demo:

Out came the shower doors

Out came the tile and drywall around the shower

Out came the shower base! It's getting real, people.

The demo continues around the tub. Can you tell demo is Mike's favorite part?

So then the bathroom was a Hot Mess. All the places where Mike had taken off the tile (around the tub, in the shower, on the floor), we had to put up Durock (cement board). So in the picture below you can see Mike started putting up the Durock in the shower area.

And then around the tub

He also installed Durock underlayment on the floor to be the base for the tile.

 

You can see after screwing it down, Mike taped and sealed the boards with mortar.

 

Take note the half walls enclosing the shower area. They did not exist in the bathroom before but we knew we couldn't afford floor to ceiling glass enclosures for the shower. Solution? Half walls = half the glass. So Mike went to building the walls with 2x4's, patience and a lot of calculating.

 

 

After he built the walls, he was able to start the waterproofing kit. I'm sure there are technical websites on why's and how's so we followed the directions and I suggest you do the same! To me, it looks like paper, but it's special paper!. You basically wrap it around anything and everything (so all our shower walls and flooring) that we want to be waterproof, adhering it with mortar.

 

 

 

 

And this is how I leave you, with our bathroom being a Hot Mess. Next up - tiling!