Another evenings work and two significant landmarks on progress with the Bathroom!!!
Firstly, the Shower is now completely finished ready for use. I still have to connect the power supply for the pump and I intend to make that the next job which will make the shower usable. The bath has been sealed to the wall with white silicon so fully waterproof. In the photo below you can also see the glass shower screen – in a fairly big job like this it is always good to reach a key stage and this is one of those.
Back to joinery work and fitting the door and that is another key stage. The house is starting to return to normal as a whole. For the last 10 days or so we have had all the material for this project stored in various other rooms It is amazing how much space the stuff occupies. Mary is spending her spare time cleaning the house more then usual – the dust produced by the bathroom project work gets every where!!
You can see some of Phils art work on the wall by the door!! A new wall seems to be a magnet for an arty person 😉
So the next job is to finish the door ( fit door catch and handle etc.) and then turn to the vanity unit which still needs to be constructed and have the toilet cistern and wash hand basin installed in it!
How are you sealing the wood Jim? With all of that steam you could end up with a Guggenheim bathroom…
Stuart Lennie
I will be sealing with wood with good old polyurethane varnish – likely to be satin finish. It will need 3 or perhaps 4 coats sanded with steal wool between coats and then finished by rubbing with steal wool and wax. Of course the wet areas are all lined with the WetWall boards – eg around the bath etc.
i do hope that my bedroom isn’t being used as a dumping ground!!!! Although I fear that it probably is….
As if!!!!
Aaaah, steel wool and wax, the finish applied to every Technical Department project from S1 to S6!
You clearly have some experience in this area? Of course they are not called Technical Depts any more are they? Technology is more up to date I think? That said when I was working in a school, Technical Dept was the right term 😉
Was (still am?) a Technology/Technical teacher before I sold my soul to be an ICT Development Officer…
I miss the smell oof human skin on a belt sander!
OK cool, so are you based in Scotland or elsewhere in the UK? Is it possible that we have met in the dim and distant past. I did my Technical teaching at Earlston High School in the Scottish Borders.