Bathroom Renovation

[TheBEast]

Well I'm about to embark on the first major renovation to my house since we bought the place 5 years ago. We are remodeling our bathroom, taking it down to the studs and starting a-new. Demo begins on Saturday and Sunday. Luckily my brother is a builder and will be down for the week to lead the project, with his older brother (that's me) as the gofer.

Any tips on demo are much appreciated as I'm on my own for that one. I'll try to get some before and after pics posted up as we embark on the project. Should be interesting!!

Moderators: Please update the title to "Renovation".....damn typo......

 

[deadheadskier]

done...and good luck. My older brother is a carpenter and he did ours for us when we bought out place a year and a half ago. I was also the gofer

 

[roark]

Hope you have a second bathroom

Good luck.

 

[wa-loaf]

Demolition is the best part.

 

[Moe Ghoul]

Cover up doorways to keep dust to a minimum, wear a mask, turn off power to outlets. Play good music and have fun. Lay out some plastic or old rug if you have to walk back and forth thru the house. Bring as many tools that you think you might need to avoid going back and forth. Keep a shop vac handy and a coupla extension cords. Broom, shovel, garbage cans. If it's on the first floor, open the window and toss it into a bin outside. We're putting in new kitchen counters, fitters come in on Thursday to template and measure for stone cutting, then come back on the 26th to install.

 

[TheBEast]

Cover up doorways to keep dust to a minimum, wear a mask, turn off power to outlets. Play good music and have fun. Lay out some plastic or old rug if you have to walk back and forth thru the house. Bring as many tools that you think you might need to avoid going back and forth. Keep a shop vac handy and a coupla extension cords. Broom, shovel, garbage cans. If it's on the first floor, open the window and toss it into a bin outside. We're putting in new kitchen counters, fitters come in on Thursday to template and measure for stone cutting, then come back on the 26th to install.

All good thoughts!! First floor bath and we've only got 1! So wife and daughter are off to the in-laws and the neighbors have agreed to let us use their bath in the mean time.....should be interesting! I'm imaging lots of trips to the hardware store over the next couple of days! I'd love to throw the demo out the window, but there is a bush right there, so scraps that idea.

 

[ctenidae]

All good thoughts!! First floor bath and we've only got 1! So wife and daughter are off to the in-laws and the neighbors have agreed to let us use their bath in the mean time.....should be interesting! I'm imaging lots of trips to the hardware store over the next couple of days! I'd love to throw the demo out the window, but there is a bush right there, so scraps that idea.

Buy some quick connect fittings and run flexible line to the toilet so you can just lift it off and work around the hole, then put it back down when you're done for teh evening. Nothing worse than a 4 am pee break with no toilet handy. We did that witht eh toilet and shower. Worked pretty well.

 

[Hawkshot99]

Nothing worse than a 4 am pee break with no toilet handy.

He is a man. The world is his toilet!

Make sure there isno electronic interference, so you can post from the throne!:dunce:

 

[SKIQUATTRO]

prewire for speakers, we've been putting alot of speakers in bathrooms latley either wired back to the main system with a vol control in the bathroom or back to an IPOD dock setup in the master also with a vol control in the bathroom..wire it now, even if you dont hook it up, the wire will be there...

 

[RootDKJ]

prewire for speakers, we've been putting alot of speakers in bathrooms latley either wired back to the main system with a vol control in the bathroom or back to an IPOD dock setup in the master also with a vol control in the bathroom..wire it now, even if you dont hook it up, the wire will be there...

Awesome idea! Might as well run some coax for a TV as well.

 

[TheBEast]

prewire for speakers, we've been putting alot of speakers in bathrooms latley either wired back to the main system with a vol control in the bathroom or back to an IPOD dock setup in the master also with a vol control in the bathroom..wire it now, even if you dont hook it up, the wire will be there...

This is very tempting but this house is really only in our 5 year plan and with nothing else wired up like that in the house, I'd opt to put my money/time elsewhere......but oh the ideas are flowing for what we'd hopefully build for the next house!

 

[ccskier]

If it is on the 1st floor, just leave the wires in the basement and the other end taped behind the drywall, you never know, 5 year plans sound great but if the real estate market tanks more u never know.

 

[SKIQUATTRO]

wire and a speaker will run you under $50...dont run coax if you are planning on the TV being HD..run an HDMI or Component

 

[SKIQUATTRO]

this was our 5 yr house too....now its 7 years later and dont see signs of moving anytime soon...

 

[RootDKJ]

wire and a speaker will run you under $50...dont run coax if you are planning on the TV being HD..run an HDMI or Component

For a bathroom, I'd still go coax and get a TV with a CableCard. Otherwise, you'll need to put the HDMI or Component source (Cable, Satellite or Telco box) somewhere.

Note: The bathroom is one of 3 rooms that don't have a TV in my house.

 

[wa-loaf]

We're going to need pics of the process too!

 

[RootDKJ]

We're going to need pics of the process too!

+1

 

[Johnskiismore]

Good luck!

 

[billski]

prewire for speakers, we've been putting alot of speakers in bathrooms latley either wired back to the main system with a vol control in the bathroom or back to an IPOD dock setup in the master also with a vol control in the bathroom..wire it now, even if you dont hook it up, the wire will be there...

Seems rather bizarre to me. Are you guys serious about TV in the bathroom? In the old days we used to take the newspaper along. Oh yeah, they're all out of business.. My wife says, "do your business and get out!"

Put insulation in the interior walls for noise abatement. We did it on every wall we opened up. Really cheap thing to do.

I found that having a wire chase from basement to attic is very useful. I ran spare cat 6 and telco wires from the basement distribution point to the attic. It's easier to get to the second floor rooms that way It's nice, you can add any wire you want later, like video (we don't watch much TV). There are circumstances when a wired ethernet connection is the way to go instead of wireless (we have both and use both). If your bathroom connects basement to attic, using one of the walls as a chase conduit (like 2" pvc pipe) would be a simple thing at this point.

Our contractor did the demo on our bathroom, but refused to get rid of the mirror. He took it down, but insisted we dispose of it. The guy was in his 30s , but hugely superstitious.

 

[SKIQUATTRO]

personally i think TV is too much, but tunes I like in there.....we just installed 3 tv's in a bathroom (abeit a very large bathroom) 1 for viewing while in jacuzzi tub, 1 in shower (sunbrite tv-fully weather proof) and 1 by the vanity...all wired back to touch screen pads....nuts.