Seriously? 2 months since my last blog post? I keep slacking off at this whole personal webpage thing.
First, the excuses part. Now, we’re renovating our bathroom. We’ve been pretty productive as of late. We completely tore out the old bathroom except for a small part of the wall. Included in the effort are a bunch of things I’ve never done before in the realm of reconstruction. Thanks to my dad, I now know how to solder copper pipe. One afternoon, I got the pleasure of building a new shower pan out of about 200 lbs of mortar. Another afternoon, I sliced clean off part of the tip of my thumb while scoring a sheet of drywall. Whoops. Fortunately, it wasn’t quite big enough to merit an ER visit, and Marcie stepped up to help me cut/hang drywall and cement board. Cement board is a royal pain to cut, too, so I can’t give her enough credit.
Now, we’re into tiling and grouting. Tiling’s been ok, aside from the one batch of thinset mortar that refused to hold the tiles up right, and we had to hold them in place with duct tape until the mortar set. If you work right behind a tile saw, you look like you wet yourself. :% Then, there’s grout. Maybe it’s just my technique (or lack), but I think I lose about 10% of every batch I make to the floor.
I know…I sound negative about it…but that’s just me exercising my God-given right to gripe. Really, though, I’m happy with how it’s all coming together. The walls look great, and we’re getting ready to move on to the floors. The homestretch is in sight, though…after the floors, fixtures go in, and we’ve got a functional 2nd bathroom again (and I think even nicer than the upstairs bathroom).
My travel schedule’s become a little more reasonable as of late too, which has made the bathroom work move along quicker. I’m typing from my hotel room in lovely Allentown, PA, but I’ve only got another week or two of this left, I think. Nothing like making 35 trips to the same place over the course of 10 months.
Ok, 6am is going to come way too soon…
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