Seeing the exposed frame with the new vs old wood makes me compulsively want to apply Intumescent Paint.
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this has been a fun project to follow. good work
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W is just waiting for the Grand Finale: the toilet seat lid…
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Certainly not a bad call, likewise ensuring old/poorly rated electrical cables aren’t installed is a smart move as well.
A pleasure having you following along, Wendell.
Well I’m moving onto the smiling wood now (warped), so it’s a little tougher going. Setting out the loo door now. Next job will be to chase out the wall and fix a stud to it, like I did to the external wall.
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Hi ChrisA, I was wondering why you are remodeling the Toilet room. Did your wife finally convince you to add a small shower stall so it would be easier for her to keep clean if she ever becomes wheelchair-bound? Please share if you don’t mind. My mother has been nagging me to get the downstairs bathroom remodeled. The only problem is I am a network engineer, not a Carpender, and I have two left thumbs.
Hi Shadow, happy to answer, the reason is here:
I think that pretty much sums it up, utilising an oversized room to make another room larger. I had originally hoped to put a shower in, but it would make the adjacent room way too small. My wife and I are relatively young (40’s), so I wasn’t future proofing for future issues (there are none so far, we’re fortunate).
I do remember you being a network engineer, perhaps hire someone…to prevent losing your two left thumbs via a cutting blade! Remodelling is relatively easy though, as the services are already there - foul pipework is normally the biggest challenge. I hope that helps.
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Started the chase for this timber
using my wall chaser again to make quicker and less messy work at it. Has a vacuum attachment connected to a vacuum that starts up when the tool does.
It doesn’t get to the top and bottom, so I do that with multitool
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don’t take long for the vacuum to get filled up
the tedious bit (cleaning up), to get it ready for habitation again. I try to do the work when stepdaughter isn’t in, and it’s not often that’s the case, but it means that with every session there’s a good few hours of putting everything back. At least now the rooms are separate, it’s a lot less work to put things back.
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wow you did a really nice job 
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Cheers, long way from finishing, but it’s going well so far.
P.S. Welcome to the forum by the way 
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doing a little more today, I’d left a mess from the last time
that’s better
here’s the steel I need to go over, there’s another one after that
lube up
this board went under the stud
so before taking it completely out, I’ve marked it where I’ll cut it out with a jigsaw
always nice when others take away their crap, not this time though
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Thanks for the advice. I am taking a part of my paycheck and putting it into a savings account to hire someone to help remodel the downstairs and upstairs bathrooms. Neither bathroom has been remodeled since 1982 when we moved in.
You’re very welcome. If you wanted to save some money and have another bathroom, you could safely and carefully remove the old fittings. If you were disposing of it as well, you might save yourself $200-500. Just take a photo first in case it helps the installers and of course disconnect any live services (wet or electric) when you get to that point and as needed.
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on with the next stretch (cleaning out the old materials is tedious, but the more I do, the less will fall down into the room below.
Here’s the room below, marking out the rough area
masking taped some sheet to catch dust and small debris - easier to work on knees upstairs than on steps and working from above downstairs.
sealed up as best as reasonable, wooden block is only there cos the camera can’t focus on white walls
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starting the cut (used a circular to start, then moving to the recip saw
cutting out and you can see the sheet that’s stuck to the underside of the ceiling below
decided to tack those electric cables, fast moving saw blade and electric don’t mix, it’s only a 10min job after all.
checked that I hadn’t ripped through sheet, gave it a good 3" of sag so I had some room with the recip blade
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