Removing Flooring

2/25/12

Back Bathroom Flooring

    These photos were taken just a couple of hours after the grout was placed so it dried out lighter than this and we’ve been able to clean up the excess grout.

Working on Back Bathroom

  

We’ve been working with Glenn once again to get our back bathroom functioning again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We gutted the bathroom last year and had the walls repaired and repainted. 

 

 

When the new stone flooring was installed in the living room we kept the leftovers of tile, mortar, grout, trim, and backer board for this small 25 sq. ft. bathroom.  Laying the flooring for such a small area would be a great teaching experience.  

 

This video shows us laying the backer board:

 

 

 

 

 

The Cabinet Gets a New Floor Too!

 

The rotten particle board that had served as the floor of the cabinet was moldy and deteriorated. It was a smelly job, but Glenn got on a mask and started pulling out the floor.  Thankfully the underlayment beneath the particle board wasn’t moldy and looked to be in good shape.

 

 

Mom picked up some paint to use in the laundry room-it was surprise when we saw that it was the color of a pomegranate! We’d never painted the laundry/pantry since we’ve been living here and the red color really brightened up the room.

We’ll also paint behind the shelves                              I think that we’ll use this same color for the hallway bathroom

Glenn cut a base for the plywood to sit on.

However, getting the plywood into the cabinet was a difficult challenge that required un-wiring the garbage disposal,

cutting the drain pipe and removing the front board. Finally we got the plywood inside and screwed into the base. It was pretty late before we got the job done (past midnight) and we’ll have to pick up plumbing supplies before we can re-attach the drain and start using the kitchen sink again.

We’ll paint the plywood to match the other cabinet’s floors and put some trim on the front edge.

Now that we have a good, solid foundation in the cabinet we’ll have to either replace the kitchen faucet or just replace the o-rings and the gasket where the water is leaking from.