How would you grout this bathroom floor?
Striddy Huene
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JAN MOYER
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Comments (21)Thanks oaktown! Those are great pics. I very much appreciate your thoughts! I am reconsidering keeping the concrete floor. But I am worried that the concrete will stain with constant water exposure. Also, if there ever is a water main leak, it might be easier to hide any sawcut marks by replacing tile. The other reason I was thinking of tile, is I want to do the whole house in the new concrete flooring. This will be very expensive and may have to wait for a year. It might put off finishing the bathroom until then, unless I do tile....See Morehow would you paint this master bathroom??
Comments (23)We’d actually just finished renovating our prior house when I saw this house and felt like we needed to come see it. We walked in and instantly knew we had to buy. It just gave us the warm and fuzzies (well 3600sf of living space vs our prior 1500sf had a lot to do with it too! My laundry room here is even bigger than my son’s room at the old house!) There was so much pride and attention to detail that the prior owners clearly put in. I work from home and spend all day in my house so as vain as it may be, I really enjoy the beauty and fine aspects of it A LOT. We definitely need to update quite a few things though. Everything is a huge undertaking though - physically and financially - with this much space and our desire to do it RIGHT. My husband is a superintendent for a custom builder and he believes in using high quality materials, even if it means we have to wait a while to have the budget for it. We’ve done a lot in 4 months - replaced an AC unit, pool equipment, re insulated the attic, all new double pane windows, plantation shutters (except this bathroom) and furnished the dining room, my office and our pool area. Next up is floor, paint and countertops in the kitchen. I imagine sometime in the next year (or two) we’ll be done. I HOPE! Anyways I really appreciate all of your input! I think I’ll head to SW this week and finally start painting!...See MoreHow would you vent and run water in this basement bathroom?
Comments (9)Based on my experience, DWV is a lot more complicated to design than it seems. Don't feel bad if it seems like a lot to figure out. Two bathrooms on the same level can share a single horizontal wet vent, so you might be able to use a single vent. However, there is a formula for the vent size, and it seems like you might need a 2" vent for that many fixtures. Here's one example from the Terry Love Plumbing forum, where they discuss these questions in detail. https://terrylove.com/forums/index.php?threads/use-of-aav-for-basement-bathroom.66692/ If you have 3/4" PEX stubs for hot and cold you will have no problem feeding all the fixtures. The simplest DIY solution is to buy a copper or stainless steel PEX manifold similar to this one. https://www.pexuniverse.com/sioux-chief-5-port-pex-copper-manifold-w-valves-672xv0590 The 3/4" input goes into two manifolds (hot and cold) and all the 1/2" pex lines go out to each fixture. You can also buy a manifold with an open ended 3/4" connection so that you can daisy-chain them together. I bought one of the 14"x14" metal covers from HD to provide access to a stud bay, and then strapped the two PEX manifolds on boards between the studs. It was a little difficult to get it all to fit, but it is now very convenient to shut off hot and cold to each of the fixtures. This is a picture of the back of the manifold while the build was still in progress. It did look neater when I was done. Bruce...See MoreHow would you handle this? Not your kid bathroom practices.
Comments (26)Oly, the first reason I wouldn't discuss with a young boy is because for a lot of boys, having a friend's grandmother discuss his urination habits would be mortifying to a lot of boys.. cutesy discussion or direct, it's just not the place of someone not in his family IMO. Also, it could be something physical that you are not aware of-- one of my nephews had a number of surgeries involving his plumbing and apparatus (trying to foil filters). Not only did that condition affect his aim-- or even ability to aim until after the 3rd or 4th surgery-- but it made him very sensitive to any discussion of anything related to the plumbing/apparatus. His condition, while not "common", wasn't an unusual one. And as Feather notes, it could most definitely be misconstrued-- especially 2nd hand through a child....See MoreJAN MOYER
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