I’m calling this week the “Nothin’ But Problems” week. And it was supposed to be my fun, therapy painting week, too, dang it! I shouldn’t say it’s been all bad, because progress has been made with getting the hardie backer down on the floor, with no issues. I LOVE when that happens! I sketched out my plan and only had one tricky spot around where the toilet is going to go where we had to cut the board to carefully drop in. SUCCESS!
Now onto the problems. We were experiencing unusually warm spring temperatures here in St. Louis this past week, and I was sweating my butt off while priming the walls in this third floor bathroom, thinking “it shouldn’t be THIS hot in here”, and remembered that this room had a wall register for the ductwork before we drywalled it all in! So I scrunch down and go into the eaves behind the bathroom where the ductwork is and find that where it used to be in the wall is now where the newly run plumbing is located. A quick call to dad for advice, and sounds like we will need to add length onto the ductwork and run it around the corner to the wall where the toilet is to avoid the plumbing lines. So it appears that he will be making a special appearance during this challenge now!
After watching videos about how to tape seams and waterproof Durock, I got worried about it not being secured enough to the ceiling to hold the very LARGE tiles over time. It’s probably just my normal worrying, but better to overdo it in this case. So down came the piece on the ceiling and we built a better structure under, so it is super secure now!
One step forward, two steps back… story of my life HAHA!
As you can see, we also got the hole cut for the shower niche. It’s a powder coated matte black stainless steel niche that you don’t have to tile around, which sounded pretty good to me. I typically bite off more than I can chew, and this instance with the ORC design challenge is no different, so when I can make my life a little easier I’ll do it!
I did manage to get the walls primed at least, and my husband started getting the thinset and seams done in the shower area. I have a lot of catching up to do this weekend going into next week’s post (I work during the week, btw).
Crossing my fingers that I am prepped and ready to begin the tiling journey soon! But for now, I better sign off and get to work. See ya next week for more One Room Challenge updates!
Michele aka Kiki