So today I started out by posting a bunch of memes because I couldn’t sleep. Good and great. Then I went for a nap in the morning totally worn out. However my husband had determined to keep going with the sink pipe break under the house repair. However when I got up and seen how far he had come to removing the stuff in the room with the idea to redo the flooring / put in a new toilet. I had to hit him with my idea of remodeling the bathroom.
See that hallway bathroom was added as first as a toilet and sink, and had its access from the kitchen. But we needed the kitchen access door space for cupboards in our new kitchen so we moved the doorway to the hallway. But when James moved in he needed a place to shower and as he worked nights and coming in late in the evening to shower often got awkward. He would interrupt Ron and I being romantic … is a nice way to put it. I did not care, I had been in the US Army where if there were three people in a room it was understood that guys were going to have sex and we just pretended not to see or hear. James said he was OK with that. But my husband was freaking out. The third time it happened while we were in the throes of passion nude on our bed and James knocked on the door … Ron had enough.
He carved a large portion of our own bedroom master bathroom we had planned to use for a large shower to put a shower in the hallway bathroom. He then built our own much smaller bathroom shower in the space left. Now that James has been gone for years Ron simply has been too tired to deal with changing anything. The leak of the sink gave me the opportunity.
Ron has been in the middle stage of finishing the Florida Room I am moving out to so we can have a spare bedroom where my pink palace office is. Due to the kitchen sink leak I still plan to post on but it is not yet finished as you can see. See that one I really wanted to do a video on with the new program I spent so much money buying. It will show if it really was worth the money to buy and use. However I have to say even without using it I had an issue and the company stepped in and solved it along with a decade’s old one. So they seem a rock solid company.
So remember that Ron is now this year 70 and I am very disabled but I am willing to help him all I can. But during the attempt to fix the sink leak Ron struggled to get his legs to bed around the pipes and to get himself around the tight spaces. Turns out he has not got the flexibility he once had. Well damn it I knew that from our bedtime and the rest of our life. His is a muscle bound 70 year old man who has lost all flexibility.
So while we had everything removed except the shower I spend a lot of time convincing him that hey, if we shifted this there and that here and did this … we could have the bathroom of our dreams we originally planned on. Took a while. About two hours until he came back to me and said enthusiastically … YES, that is a great idea. But Scottie the work and effort. He told me he remembered how it was so hard for him and I to force that current shower into the room and twist it to the point it would fall into where it needed to be. I was not so disabled then and he was much younger.
I said yes I remember but also this is different. See it is only us living here, no one needs to access the bathroom or shower yet. Plus we don’t have to use any existing spaces. We can remove the walls around the current shower and just work on it as we move forward. We can even cut this shower into pieces and get a new one to put in there as it was a simple cheap 36 by 36 shower anyway. Once he realized that he was all for it. He even was online looking at extra tall elongated bowl toilets. I may regret this, I created a monster. LOL. So below are the pictures of the bathroom and I am going to bed. Love everyone and thanks for following the blog. This saga of remodeling is only beginnings. Hugs
Now all that need to be done is plan out where to put each item and run the needed piping. Hugs
Scottie's Playtime 
🌞 Have fun!
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Hi Ali. I wouldn’t call it fun, but I can say that it is exciting to finally maybe getting the bathroom Ron promised me in 2007 when we bought this house. He told me he could rip out the existing walls and make a large master bathroom. But so many things happened and had to be handled. When James moved in the only way to give him a shower was to take it out of the room we had reserved for our own bathroom. This is a once in a lifetime thing and I guess once I got Ron to understand that he fell in love with it. He said he would move the wall between the bathrooms back 6 inches and it would all work. I love that about him. He has no fear of moving walls or changing things if he wants to do it. The problem is at 70 getting him to want to do it. Hugs
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When I was remodeling I always got a kick out of the look on the homeowners’ faces when I got out the battery sawzall and cut the tub/shower into pieces. Done right, demo is fun …
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Hi Ten Bears. I thought of your comment yesterday when Ron tried three different tools for cutting the floor only to fall back to the favored 18 volt Ryobi sawzall. That made short work of it. What grossed me out was after he got the first layer of floor planking up he showed me in the layers of wood that he was pulling up around the toilet were small worms. The toilet seal had totally gone away and the worms were having a wonderful time. He told me if I had not forced this he would have had to do it in a year anyway. The young man who lived with us was great with the destruction part, but hated the construction part. Ron tried hard to teach him but he did not want to learn. He took shortcuts that are hurting us now. Ron blames himself as he was the one supervising but James was headstrong and often thought the old people did not know what was best but he did. He was wrong. He was a bull in a china shop get it done and over with no need to do it correctly. So we are dealing with it now. Hugs
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I told you I always told a client before I even looked at it: there’s always a good chance you’ll need to replace the floor. I can’t speak to your manufactured home not knowing the frame but in old houses it meant tearing everything out, cutting the floor-joists back to where they are undamaged and scabbing new floor-joists in, lay down new decking, install flooring and fixtures. It’s not so much a big project (it is) as nasty, at first, and yeah ~ big guys installing middle-sized stuff in small spaces, I don’t envy you
If I have to go back to it, I am not going to remodel bathrooms 😎
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Hi Ten Bears. Before I go into replying I have forgotten if I replied to your comment on the floor planking before. If not I have it saved but I wanted to tell you that I printed it out to show to Ron. He agreed with you and we have plans to do as you said.
As to the structure. You may know all this already. This home is a double wide older mobile home. So that is two single wides slammed together. There is a long beam down each side three feet or so with outriggers to the outer walls. So four main long beams. Then from side to side is smaller metal beams Ron said are about 6 feet apart. The original floor was press board, but Ron has removed most of that. The last hurricane kept picking up the home and slamming it down even with the anchors so the floors all have to be redone anyway and are now uneven.
So as he had replaced that floor before and he had to “trim” the metal length long beam for the second remodel we did to fit the toilet pipe. This will be the third remodel. I am trying to convince Ron to do it easier not harder. We are both old and not in great shape. We had to do this, first to repair the sink pipe that had a rubber boot that totally came undone. There was no sewage down there in the lake of water but sure smelled like it. Ron said it was because the toilets were sending the smell back from where the pipes joined to the open smaller broken pipe.
Oh crap in trying to make sure I was telling you the truth he took me through his thought process. He doesn’t want to do what I thought, buy a big 54 inch shower for our bathroom but he wants to build his own with a seat in it. Crap. I can not say no or his enjoyment goes away. But the washer when full shakes the entire house. Putting tile on the walls in a place that shakes seems like asking for trouble to me. But Ron loves tile and he has wanted to tile counters, floors and stuff that I have kind of tried to avoid. So I guess that is the future of this build. The fourth remodel of the floor plan of this home since 2007.
This is not going to be fun, I agree with you. But we don’t have time pressure other than aging. We will be in a better financial position in June so soon we will have an extra 400 to put to the project a month as the car payment is done. That will take the strain off our bank account some. Plus the first time he put the shower in it was one piece, and we had to take it in one middle door, twist it around and shift it over nearly 6 feet, then force it into the already tight fit place. It nearly killed us. I told Ron I don’t care if he cuts it apart and gets a new one. Or instead takes a wall in the hallway or new bathroom out to move it if he wants to save that shower. This time easier not quicker. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience. I know I can use it. Hugs
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Also I read your comment to Ron. He replied I don’t blame him. Hugs
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