Getting ready for a full gut-master bath refurb. I know what I want, basically, but am having so much trouble finding it in the market.
First, I contacted four contractors, as well, maybe this time I would have it done.
1: We don't do tile, we don't do wall toilets
2: We only do existing footprint
3: Price less than proper materials
4: Price would pay for a Trump gold plated tasteless mess
5: Would have talked, but said not this year. Did not want it tomorrow, but this year for sure.
So, doing it myself. I want to do the cabinets anyway.
Wife does not want tile on the shower floor. OK. One piece. I was about to buy a cheap acrylic pan when I found, if you go through the right path only Swan has the 36 x 60 pan I want. WEB site messed up. Seems a lot of companies have not maintaining their WEB.
Two plumbing supply houses said I had to use a sharkbite to splice my PB into new Pex. Well, now told SB does not guarantee that but there is a comp ring for standard PEX B fittings.
Every tile store tells me not to use epoxy grout, but the new acrylic is great. Search the WEB. Maybe better than portlad only, but still stains and gets soft when wet. So epoxy it is.
Now, finding a tub I fit in. They make deep soakers with huge cavities to fit a pump so the floor is too short. Sure you need a little for head room, a little for the drain, but some of these are just plain stupid. Heck, my Jack&Jill one piece fits me! ( 46 on the floor) Some are as short as 38 inches in a 5 foot tub! OK, go for a 66. Some of them are as short, just wider flange!
Finding half the tiles on display in showrooms are NLA. Come on folks, manage your displays!
OK bitch, bitch bitch. Anyway, Laticrete and Mapi are the popular brands for grout, but I have a hint there are better brands pros use. Any ideas?
I was originally thinking Wenge cabinet faces, but talked out of them as hard to work with. Flipped the light and dark. Maple cabinets and darker floor. Of course, for a darker floor, it is not the $.79 from BORG, but may have to pay real money. Go figure that out. $.79/ft or $15/foot. Cant tell the difference. ( Except 20 to 30% additional shipping on the expensive stuff. )
Thinking Redseal or similar for the shower walls and floor. Used it in my last shower and it seemed to work well, but only used it for about 4 years.
I had found nice china 31 inch vanity tops where the sink was slid over a few inches giving more useable space for her "stuff" Can't find them now. I did find a similar one out of Germany labeled: " Not for use with potable water in the US" WHAT! It is a china sink!
Darn over broad search results. I say china vanity top and 90% of the results are plastic if it is even a vanity top. Lowe's and HD WEBs are terrible. Even the clerks can't find stuff.
Of course, have a lot of work to do to make the room square and strait. Need additional blocking the floor, structure around drain etc. Stupid popcorn ceiling and so on.
The good:
Found really nice broken jade wall tiles
Sothern Tile seems to have everything
Swan does actually make the pan I want
I can splice into PB as I am not ready to redo the entire house this year.
Fastcabinentdoors ( I used for my kitchen) has a couple maple doors that would do just fine
Can't quite make it fully accessible by ADA standards, but close enough.
First, I contacted four contractors, as well, maybe this time I would have it done.
1: We don't do tile, we don't do wall toilets
2: We only do existing footprint
3: Price less than proper materials
4: Price would pay for a Trump gold plated tasteless mess
5: Would have talked, but said not this year. Did not want it tomorrow, but this year for sure.
So, doing it myself. I want to do the cabinets anyway.
Wife does not want tile on the shower floor. OK. One piece. I was about to buy a cheap acrylic pan when I found, if you go through the right path only Swan has the 36 x 60 pan I want. WEB site messed up. Seems a lot of companies have not maintaining their WEB.
Two plumbing supply houses said I had to use a sharkbite to splice my PB into new Pex. Well, now told SB does not guarantee that but there is a comp ring for standard PEX B fittings.
Every tile store tells me not to use epoxy grout, but the new acrylic is great. Search the WEB. Maybe better than portlad only, but still stains and gets soft when wet. So epoxy it is.
Now, finding a tub I fit in. They make deep soakers with huge cavities to fit a pump so the floor is too short. Sure you need a little for head room, a little for the drain, but some of these are just plain stupid. Heck, my Jack&Jill one piece fits me! ( 46 on the floor) Some are as short as 38 inches in a 5 foot tub! OK, go for a 66. Some of them are as short, just wider flange!
Finding half the tiles on display in showrooms are NLA. Come on folks, manage your displays!
OK bitch, bitch bitch. Anyway, Laticrete and Mapi are the popular brands for grout, but I have a hint there are better brands pros use. Any ideas?
I was originally thinking Wenge cabinet faces, but talked out of them as hard to work with. Flipped the light and dark. Maple cabinets and darker floor. Of course, for a darker floor, it is not the $.79 from BORG, but may have to pay real money. Go figure that out. $.79/ft or $15/foot. Cant tell the difference. ( Except 20 to 30% additional shipping on the expensive stuff. )
Thinking Redseal or similar for the shower walls and floor. Used it in my last shower and it seemed to work well, but only used it for about 4 years.
I had found nice china 31 inch vanity tops where the sink was slid over a few inches giving more useable space for her "stuff" Can't find them now. I did find a similar one out of Germany labeled: " Not for use with potable water in the US" WHAT! It is a china sink!
Darn over broad search results. I say china vanity top and 90% of the results are plastic if it is even a vanity top. Lowe's and HD WEBs are terrible. Even the clerks can't find stuff.
Of course, have a lot of work to do to make the room square and strait. Need additional blocking the floor, structure around drain etc. Stupid popcorn ceiling and so on.
The good:
Found really nice broken jade wall tiles
Sothern Tile seems to have everything
Swan does actually make the pan I want
I can splice into PB as I am not ready to redo the entire house this year.
Fastcabinentdoors ( I used for my kitchen) has a couple maple doors that would do just fine
Can't quite make it fully accessible by ADA standards, but close enough.