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Big project and a learning experience.; Taking on new things, learing alnong the way.
Topic Started: Sep 1 2015, 11:43 AM (13,101 Views)
ZXTjato
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so I cant even begin to describe what I think of this mess. just take a few mins to ponder what to do with this.


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here is another shot. back when I was a kid I liked to build club houses with my buddys, we would use any wood nails glue what ever to hold our forts together. this kinda looks like what we used to build when we were in grade school. no measuring using scraps and not strong enough to drive nails so we would bend them all up.

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here is the shower head and I think they used pipes made for gas, is it called black pipe or something?

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here is some large drain pipe just chillin in the wall who knows where it goes, also I think who ever put this together didn't have enough pipe to span the sections but they had lots of T connectors and caps. so they used T's to span the distance then just capped the end of one side its really hoaky


Now I was taking a break from building and I sat down to watch a little you tube and this song was on my suggested watch list, I thought eh ill watch it. This song made me so sad it literally broke my heart to think about what was being shown in this video so I would like to share it with you guys. Wrong Side Of Heaven
Edited by ZXTjato, Sep 28 2015, 03:56 PM.
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looks like pictures of the stacks that vent all plumbing to the roof. It is old construction and I have seen worse that's still serviceable. your gonna need to get a plumber to add drains in the floors if you want to get rid of the tubs. yeah it is a big ass project you got there, but you can do it! have the plumber change out the tub valves for shower valved higher on the wall. then cement board on the walls. after that you can get a tile guy to build up the shower floors and you or him can tile in the showers. tile work is actually pretty easy, check it out on youtube etc, or go to a Homedepot class. you can do a good job yourself with a $100 tile saw. try to not get discouraged and no more demo till you make some stuff right!
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I just read through this thread and it reminded me why I plan on not buying a fixer upper ever in my life. :D The house I'm in now is like 85% good, and the 15% that isn't is a nightmare. I can't imagine living in a home while I tried to remodel it. Kill me now.
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Sep 28 2015, 05:30 PM
I just read through this thread and it reminded me why I plan on not buying a fixer upper ever in my life. :D The house I'm in now is like 85% good, and the 15% that isn't is a nightmare. I can't imagine living in a home while I tried to remodel it. Kill me now.
its living in dust, imagine being dirty every day, the dust is insane and I'm trying to control it by picking it up and dispose of it outside. every thing is full of dust, cant walk around the house with out shoes, cant take a crap without wipe the seat unless you want dust butt, the trash is full all the time and I don't have time to play with my blue geo until this is fixed. that's about what its like. dirt, dust and every thing is stuffed into 3 rooms. :coffee I keep telling myself it will be hella nice when its all done, the tile guy said I could use his floor scraper so I been scrapping floors all day. he will be here Tuesday to start the living room and the master bath.
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Sep 28 2015, 05:06 PM
looks like pictures of the stacks that vent all plumbing to the roof. It is old construction and I have seen worse that's still serviceable. your gonna need to get a plumber to add drains in the floors if you want to get rid of the tubs. yeah it is a big ass project you got there, but you can do it! have the plumber change out the tub valves for shower valved higher on the wall. then cement board on the walls. after that you can get a tile guy to build up the shower floors and you or him can tile in the showers. tile work is actually pretty easy, check it out on youtube etc, or go to a Homedepot class. you can do a good job yourself with a $100 tile saw. try to not get discouraged and no more demo till you make some stuff right!
as much fun as doing tile sounds, I don't have the patience right now to learn how to do it. I know I can and thanks for the encouragement :cheers but the tile guy has lots of experience In his work. he gave me a list of chores to do today cut the sheet rock out and dig down the dirt so he can install a new drain for the shower. it was nice of him to lend me a few tools, a 5 foot level for cutting straight a dry wall saw and a floor tool with some spare blades. when he gets here he will be ready to go because I did the prep work for him,
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ZXTjato
Sep 28 2015, 09:59 AM
yea I wont need to put down any cement board because this house is on one giant slab of cement already. to be honest I'm not really sure how the house mounts to the cement, I haven't seen any large bolts or anchors securing the house to it. who knows my house may go all Oz and fly away in a dust storm :rofl
Didn't think of that! I forgot that you 'weirdos' down south don't have cellars... :lol Never worked on a house with a concrete slab. You ought to at least try to remove the linoleum underneath for long lasting tile. :cheers
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ZXTjato
Sep 28 2015, 03:46 PM
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so I cant even begin to describe what I think of this mess. just take a few mins to ponder what to do with this.


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here is another shot. back when I was a kid I liked to build club houses with my buddys, we would use any wood nails glue what ever to hold our forts together. this kinda looks like what we used to build when we were in grade school. no measuring using scraps and not strong enough to drive nails so we would bend them all up.

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here is the shower head and I think they used pipes made for gas, is it called black pipe or something?

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here is some large drain pipe just chillin in the wall who knows where it goes, also I think who ever put this together didn't have enough pipe to span the sections but they had lots of T connectors and caps. so they used T's to span the distance then just capped the end of one side its really hoaky


Now I was taking a break from building and I sat down to watch a little you tube and this song was on my suggested watch list, I thought eh ill watch it. This song made me so sad it literally broke my heart to think about what was being shown in this video so I would like to share it with you guys. Wrong Side Of Heaven
As 68custom said, that pipe is most likely a vent stack to the roof. I don't think that's black iron pipe or "gas pipe" going to your shower. Just 'good old' galvanized piping. It rusts from the inside, so it slowly swells up and gets tighter inside over the years. Eventually, you'll notice decreased water pressure. Galvanized sucks, and the water usually has a funny taste to it. Not as bad for a shower, but still. If possible, I'd recommend tracking down where it leads to, chopping it out, and re-running it with copper. Or PVC if you're cheap/lazy. :lol

Edit: Reviewing the picture again, looks like the only galvanized run is from the diverter up to the shower head. Easy replace before you retile!
Edited by mt999999, Sep 29 2015, 12:47 AM.
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Sep 29 2015, 12:45 AM
Edit: Reviewing the picture again, looks like the only galvanized run is from the diverter up to the shower head. Easy replace before you retile!
Agreed and this is the time to do it! Especially since you were talking about raising the showerhead.
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Matt has been in doing the tile and I have been just helping a little and watching how its done. Hes also been helping me a little bit show me how to do some things and letting me use some of the tools, the tiles look so nice, I cant wait to have base boards and paint up.

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here is the shower, the valve was moved up to shower status and the shower head was moved nearly to the celling, with the down spout its a perfect height for a tall fella :evillol

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he dug out the dirt a bit, cut out some pipes and consolidated the vents so its got one vent not 3 hoopity janky pipes all over. then after he fixed the pluming he set the shower in. looks great so far, and whats nice about a single pro doing the job is he takes his time and just does the work. hes been fixing the walls and pipes. OH and he insulated the shower walls :thumb


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and here we have the window, he removed the old single sheet window then made the frame for the blocks and set up the glass. just under that window is getting a cut in wall shelf with a marble backer :banana sarah is still determine if the cobalt blue or emerald...... first world problems eh? :fon
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just posting these pictures here so my supervisor of another department at work can see them. hes good with home building and he wanted to see pictures of the water heater wires and the breaker boxes. so I said I would put them on the computer so he wont have to look at my tiny phone screen.
Edited by ZXTjato, Oct 1 2015, 09:32 PM.
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That wood-looking tile is pretty cool. Always wanted something like that, but at my price range, I usually opt. for the 69 cent a piece 12" X 12" sand colored flooring tile from the big box store. That's the stuff we used for flips; kitchen and bathroom floors. Dirt cheap, and good quality for the price. They sold darker tile and a couple other colors for $.99 - $1.29, and everything else went up steeply from there. It's easy to spend $5+/tile on a good looking color/pattern! :O

It's coming along nicely! :thumb
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Wow nice floor . I'd better not show it to my wife or she'll start slobbering over it and I'll end up putting some in also.
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I think the tile was 2.39 and 1200 foot of it was like 3000, but whats really cool is the tile guy is letting me get kinda hands on so I am learning tricks and tips on what do. I'm seeing how this all works and it seems pretty easy actually. there is a honed technique to it that cant really be taught, one of those do a few hundred thousand feet of it to get the hang of it type of things.

and one other thing I did was take the base boards off and he let me use the tools and gave me a bucket of mud plus some texture, even brought along the sanders and every thing so I could fix the base boards and lower them down to the new tiles. they are being set in with a pro hand so they are better than what was in here before. the old tiles were a sloppy job and not aligned over the cracks in the foundation. Matt also sealed up those cracks with some special stuff, I think he even drove some triangle shaped nails into the cracks filled them up then ground off the heads. we have not quite gotten to the grout yet, hes coming back Monday. Today at home depot I bought some wire I think its called romex, 6awg at 65 foot and the guy was nice and threw in 2 foot for free. got some wire nuts that are large enough to do both 6awg wires and a junction box for the wall. so when I am off work Saturday I will probably cut a hole in the wall and do the water heater wires and the box thing. I plan on spanning in the space above the celling then dropping down into the breaker boxes from there. so I hope I can get that done, hard to work up there in that dusty hot itchy space. ill take some more progress pictures I promise. some times I just don't take pictures because they really are not that important.
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Oct 2 2015, 11:31 PM
I think the tile was 2.39 and 1200 foot of it was like 3000, but whats really cool is the tile guy is letting me get kinda hands on so I am learning tricks and tips on what do. I'm seeing how this all works and it seems pretty easy actually. there is a honed technique to it that cant really be taught, one of those do a few hundred thousand feet of it to get the hang of it type of things.

and one other thing I did was take the base boards off and he let me use the tools and gave me a bucket of mud plus some texture, even brought along the sanders and every thing so I could fix the base boards and lower them down to the new tiles. they are being set in with a pro hand so they are better than what was in here before. the old tiles were a sloppy job and not aligned over the cracks in the foundation. Matt also sealed up those cracks with some special stuff, I think he even drove some triangle shaped nails into the cracks filled them up then ground off the heads. we have not quite gotten to the grout yet, hes coming back Monday. Today at home depot I bought some wire I think its called romex, 6awg at 65 foot and the guy was nice and threw in 2 foot for free. got some wire nuts that are large enough to do both 6awg wires and a junction box for the wall. so when I am off work Saturday I will probably cut a hole in the wall and do the water heater wires and the box thing. I plan on spanning in the space above the celling then dropping down into the breaker boxes from there. so I hope I can get that done, hard to work up there in that dusty hot itchy space. ill take some more progress pictures I promise. some times I just don't take pictures because they really are not that important.
Tiling is definitely a learned trade. I can do a floor pretty easy now, considering how many I've had to do before. Always keep some vinegar on hand to rinse your hands with, especially after grouting. You'll regret it afterward if you don't! Life lessons... :lol

A floor is pretty easy to set and grout, but I hate doing showers and back splashes. You have to be a lot more precise, and the un-sanded grout that you usually use for those smaller 1/8 in. joints is a bugger to work with. Of course, the hardest part of all is setting the tiles on a wall, and then grouting the wall. However, the biggest challenge that I've faced would be the time my boss wanted me to tile and grout the shower CEILING! :O That one was not fun, and getting the thin-set to hold the weight of the tiles was a huge challenge. I ended up propping up chairs and boxes to hold them up. Needless to say, the grouting part sucked as well.

My boss always cheaped out, and never came back after a couple weeks to seal the grout joints after the grout was good and set. He would tell me, "Eh, that's the home owner's job". Don't forget to seal it after a couple of weeks of setting, or else you'll regret it. Removing grout stains is usually impossible. :cheers

Edit: If you got the wood-look tile for $2.39/sq. ft., that's a great price you got! :deal :D
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so here we are a lot of this scrap wood from a junk pallet at my work turned into this.

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so this desk is a corner desk made from particle board, scrap pallet legs, scrap cherry base boards and scrap PVC pipes. a HUGE thanks to my moms husband David for helping build this, I did the front brakes on his truck and rotated his tires so it was a win win.

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the rear of the desk has a triangle cherry wood hole for all the cables and wires to come down and go under.

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here is how its made, the 2x2s from the pallet make up the frame, the particle board made up the top and the legs are old pvc pipes, the materials I had to buy were a sanded wood topper and that was 8 bucks, I also had to buy 4, 2" caps for the legs and some felt pads for the feet. total cost was like 13 bucks

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so after the stain is set on the topper wood I will be moving all the PC stuff to the corner desk and the way it is shaped was made to fit all the screens perfect. its a custom fit. I will be able to have my desk lights and my mic with pop filter hover over my middle screen from the corner on a boom :thumb

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this picture is kinda funny, I didn't realize how dusty it was in here till the flash went off, also the picture made the desk look crooked. but its not I promise. so what do you guys think? not bad for some time elbow work and FREE wood :cheers
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