Thanks for all your inputs though I'm still not sure what I'm required to or should do. It sounds like if I make any electrical changes at the home (short of changing the light bulbs) that it needs to be done to current electrical standards which could cascade into a major job. Even if I wanted to make the kitchen safer by replacing an outlet with a GFCI outlet, that would be illegal (not per code) since it wouldn't be on a dedicated circuit. FYI The kitchen wall outlets are on the same lines as a couple of the outlets in the adjoining dining room. Doesn't the code tell one how to deal with any existing/old construction issues? Thus still code compliant. I'm sure the house was wired to the prevailing code/standards of its day. I know the safest route would be to modernize the electrical system to current codes but it doesn't seem practical. Homes like this and much older (and much more antiquated wiring) are bought/sold every day. I suspect (not sure)todays code has some significant differences from the code 10 years ago. Are all those homes now unsafe? Where does one draw the line? BTW Two of the bathrooms (one tub/one shower)have fans with separate switches for lights and a fan. I believe there were single switches originally and was changed a very long time ago by my father. The third bathroom (with shower) has no fan but has a window. Also I believe the circuits in each bathrooms are not dedicated but I'm not sure since I don't recall dealing with them. I probably just think this because from experience the rest of the house (ie Kitchen, recreation room, etc...) doesn't seem to have any organized way in which the circuits where wired to the panel. Also I don't know what brand the panel is; I looked at it again today and there were no markings on the outside. I'll check on some of these details soon. Thanks again

Windows inside showers are drafty and they rot. You'd need to add changing out the window to the many expenses of moving the tub/shower. Do you USE a tub? A lot of people only have one for supposed 'resale to people with small children'. You can see where I'm going with this...lose the tub and make a shower in a portion of the same space. Least plumbing expense would be to put the shower next to the existing sink -- where the plumbing and drain already exist. This would leave space beyond the shower for at least a linen closet -- possibly for a second vanity and sink. (Check the elbow room and consider if two people would ever use this bathroom at the same time.)

I'm going to start by getting the terminology straight. Outlet refers to any device that consumes electricity. The thing you plug cords into is called a receptacle. First, let's address the GFCI requirement. All 120V 15/20A receptacles in a bathroom must be protected by GFCI. Some light fixtures (particularly when used in the damp areas) require GFCI by their manufacturer (you must read the instructions). The Jacuzzi probably also requires a GFCI by its installation instructions. First step, obviously is READ THE INSTRUCTIONS. The Jacuzzi probably has its own requirement for circuits. Again read the instruction. Now the receptacles in your bathroom are required to be on a 20A circuit. The code gives two possibilities for this circuit: either it serves outlets (lighting/fan/receptacles) in this one bathroom, or it serves only receptacles in bathrooms. For example, you can run a 20A circuit that only serves this bathroom and put the receptacles and the lights on it. Another option would be to feed multiple bathrooms with one 20A circuit serving only receptacles. The lighting can be put on any other (otherwise unrestricted) circuit.

Haha. Funny that this thread resurfaces today. I am STILL dealing with the grout issue, though I think I am at the tail end. I have not done anything about the door because I was waiting to see what happened with the grout. Basically, original tile guy kept pushing us off and pushing us off til he started ignoring us altogether. Took me some time to find a few other tile guys to come out and have a look. The two tile guys who came out had differing opinions on what to do - one guy said use it, it's fine (which I didn't think it was because gritty bits of grout were running down the wall after every shower!). The other guy recommended painting this sealer on that the grout company sent -- it had to be hand applied -- two coats! -- with a freaking artists' paintbrush (only on the grout lines, not on the tile at all!) so I didn't want to do it myself and he would have had to charge a lot for his time. I decided to test out the sealer to see if it would even help in a few different spots -- some of the threads on the internet from fellow suffferers of this problem said they had spent the time to carefully paint on the sealer and it didn't fix the problem! So the testing took a while cause I kept getting sidetracked (plus I was dreading what I was going to find at the end of the testing so I was kind of procrastinating -- a lot.) But when I finally buckled down and focused on it, I discovered that while the sealer didn't seem to fix the problem, the areas that I had scrubbed really hard (while trying to see where the grout was "loose") weren't running down the wall anymore -- I guess I had gotten off the loose stuff that didn't cure right. So I tested a small area last week by scrubbing the crap out of the grout lines with a stiff grout brush and letting it dry. I rechecked it today - all good! So just this morning I embarked on the process of super-scrubbing every grout line to get off the loose surface stuff -- so far underneath everything seems ok though I'm expecting that I might find a few spots that need touching up as I go -- which will involve getting a tile guy back again - ugh. It's slow going -- all that hard scrubbing is kind of tiring so I can only do so much at a time - I did maybe a quarter of the shower this morning and now my arm is killing me, LOL! But it's better than tediously painting two coats of sealer with a tiny paintbrush!!! Anyhow, thanks for the compliments! I have not hung any towel hooks either, though I did replace the stand with one that has towel bars on the side -- I thought that would work at least for my sink (the one on the end closest to the stand) but since the towel bar is behind me, I didn't end up using it. We've just been folding the towel up on the counter. I'm such a slacker LOL!