To make it worse...

Freshly reframed and subbed floor was 2" out of level in 6'.

Ceiling ....ditto.

New tub deck ......a wreck.

Overall windowy and d-curtain roddy dumbass layout.....

No good deed goes ....without following the local Hack Patrol.

 

In the end it looks good. nice work. sometimes the hardest most techincial work is preformed just to make things look okey

 

Is that a shower head... couldnt water get between the tub and the wall there and just run out on floor? Looks nice though but i would recommend they only take baths imo. I only mention it because of a disaster i once had when a customer made us use a jacuzzi tub upstairs with a surround around it and a shower head. Waterproofing didnt matter because water ran around sides onto floor than past all of the water proofing and r8ght down stairz. It was a heck of a mess.

 

Ohhhh Yeah......
That's a shower head. :thumbsup:

They ordered a D-shaped (3-sided) shower curtain.

It's a nightmare waiting to happen.

Best part was the fact that the idiot crew was going to "tile" it over DuRock alone.
Or...the 1/2" gap between that high rimmed tub and the wall, which can never be dried easily enough IMO.

I'm going to order them a rectangular curtain rod.
It will be kind of okay if they are meticulous about overlapping the curtains below and right up to the head.

Think claw foot......
Which I have in my own home's guest bath, but I have to give detailed curtain instructions to visitors or I end up with big puddles.

 

Flash back to a bathroom I did 20 years ago this week. The owners have both passed on.

 

Nothing much..simple small bath. All done with a 4" grinder. I am out of town at family's and didn't have my RLS...I was missing it big time! Tiles had a slight bow to them.

 

Did this one about 6 years ago went back last week to seal and redo caulking. It's held up pretty well.

 

Almost done.
Has heated tile floor too.
Waiting for glass wall to come in.

 

Just finished. Not my style, but that's what they wanted. Skirting being done today.

 

Just finished. Not my style, but that's what they wanted.

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I like it, refreshing and clean looking. Those inset tiles in front of toilet not being symmetric to the floor tile grout lines would drive me crazy though. I'm guessing that was a designers decision.

 

That's exactly how she wanted it. One of those jobs where I gave up trying to persuade the customer what would look the best.

 

Custy wants, custy gets. As long as they're happy, that's all that matters.
I had the same debate with a customer about shower niche placement, had it all lined up so the grout lines matched up to the perimeter of the niche for the pattern they wanted, but they insisted it be centered. Bugged the crap out of me, but they were happy and gave me lots of referrals, so that's all that matters in the end. Sometimes it's just a matter of them wanting to feel like they took part in the project.

You did a really nice installation, at least you can take pride in that.

 

Still waiting on glass. They cam to template THREE TIMES NOW.

 

Is that a metal u-channel that the glass will sit in? Is that what you do on all your jobs?

Do you hook up with the shower door company and they tell you what to use and where to put it, or do you use that and tell them to make it work?

We always tile everything, and the glass company comes in after and usually puts in a frameless or semi-frameless glass door.


Gary

 

The channel is by schluter. DECO SG. Can fit up to 3/8 inch thick glass in it.
You have to put it in as you tile. Part of the channel is thinset in under the tile.

For the most part I put it in and told them were to put glass. But we did brainstorm a little together before setting it. This particular glass company never did it this way before

 

Just finished this up about 3 weeks ago. 200 square feet of 10" tile. Everything went down well, followed up with a dark brown grout. After a mop down it turned out great.

 

Tell me that's a stripper pole and I'll tell you a story about the first job I did for a straight up trade


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Beautiful! Nice work


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Nice looking project Rob. Curious how you make the pony wall strong. I was showing my new employee my method and he was impressed how simple and strong it was. He used to install heavy glass so he has seen hundreds.

 

We tie the end stud into the floor joist.

 

Tried the festool wave blade in jigsaw........cuts like butter!. Very very little dust balls (foam dust)

Works awsome on cutting cardboard too. Like hacking up layers and layers to put in recycling can.

 

I had to try this- build a countertop out of one single 2' x 4' tile.

I'll try to get pics

 

Just a simple back splash in my current kitchen remodel, but my cut man who is new to tile is getting good.

 

I would have cut the cabinet and slipped it under, but nice cut!

 

 

 

 

Geeze TNT...Love the work, that tub looks great in that space, (you know, since I'm not the one trying to clean anything around it!)...you get some great tile jobs (because you've got it going on!)...looks great, now if there were just a few more nooks to tile in that bathroom I'd actually be impressed...

 

My plumber set the rough ins off by 3/8"....

I made the head piece on the cathedrals a little too tall for my tastes....

But.......I let my guys do more than I normally would have. ($)

(Ivory Classic trav.....Walnut trav.....QL2 Mushroom (#Ipimptravertine))

 

This gets filed under "Another F'ing Subway-n-Carrera Job"......but I wet my beak very sufficiently.