On Monday, we finished our big renovation project in a 12-hour work day which included grouting the shower surround (work, but easy) and changing out Griffin’s bathroom faucet (easy, but turned into a big 2-hour ordeal when a pipe broke off in the wall. It’s all done and we both used the shower today. It [...]
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Finishing Touches
Posted in renovations on July 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
And the tile goes on…
Posted in renovations on July 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Continuing work on the bathroom, we got the main tile and trim tile in place. Once this all dries, we can then add the trim work between the tub and the surround and the soap holder, shelves and towel rack and finally grout. The end of the project is in sight.
Break Over, Back to Work
Posted in renovations on July 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
After a week-long break to lead a Vacation Bible School we got back into the bathroom today to put up 30 square feet of tile. That’s the whole back wall and just under half of the tile needed for the shower surround. It was also a good start back to work after a break. The [...]
Kids in the Kingdom Week
Posted in life on July 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From a week of usual work combined with renovating our home (see below) we moved into an exhausting, but highly gratifying week of Vacation Bible School. The week is going great thanks to the crew of volunteers working to make it all happen and some good kids besides.
The photos of all the high energy fun [...]
Work Weekend Worked
Posted in renovations on July 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We had church work and meetings to do and a LOT of progress to make on this house this past weekend and it all came together. Like a looming deadline on a home renovation show, we faced Griffin coming home today from her grandmother’s and we wanted to have the house as back to normal [...]
Priest Hugs Toilet
Posted in renovations on July 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
If I had called it “installing the toilet” no one could have Googled the odd phrase above and found an Episcopal priest hugging the toilet as a part of getting a good seal on the wax ring for installation.
Victoria also added some tile just outside the tub. We are doing this strip outside the [...]
Small Steps
Posted in random on July 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thursday was not the biggest day for us in terms of what got accomplished, as we are also geting ready for the church’s Vacation Bible School next week and doing usual work too. But we did get the DensGuard tile backer around the shower and started enough laminate on the floor to get a [...]
Water Flowing Again
Posted in renovations on July 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
On Tuesday night, we cut off the water to the house to install the new water pipes for the bath and shower. The whole 15-joint sculpture we created held water everywhere except in the last joint, where a pinhole leak sprayed water. By then it was midnight and everything had to wait until 7 [...]
Sweating the Pipes
Posted in life, renovations on July 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Sweating copper pipes is the term for soldering them together and we have been soldering away on rebuilding the piping behind the wall in the bath/shower so that we can attach the new fixtures we bought.
Progress
Posted in random on July 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Picking out a new toilet
Victoria removes the carpet tack strips in the bedroom, which comes next.
First coat of paint in the bathroom.
New sink and faucets in the bathroom.
Nothing says renovation like…
Posted in random on July 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
…having your toilet and bathtub out on the curb. We are remodeling our “master” bedroom and bath by redoing the floors, repainting and/or tiling the walls as appropriate and replacing the tub, toilet, sinks and fixtures. Other than that, we aren’t doing much.
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