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This Week’s Featured Pulp Improvement
Pulp Bath Reno 2
Pulp Kitchen
Well, that game last week, let’s just say, quite the disappointment! For those keeping score, that would be two years in a row now that we’ve had pretty one-sided, and boring, Super Bowls. At least our homemade loaded Nachos were outstanding! And as it turned out, we ended up trying to get one more task done on the Pulp Bath Reno 2, prior to calling it for the day to watch the pregame festivities, which, in hindsight, very happy about that.
As you may recall, we were all about adding that second water wall for the new shower layout (existing being quite unstable and leaving some exposed water lines up top). New water wall, attached to floor, ceiling and old water wall…..super strong! And now we have that path to reroute the top water lines which will allow us to go full ceiling height (9 foot) in the shower, overall, making it feel quite large and luxurious!
To land the new water wall we did need to have the sub flooring complete, with access to the drain (see adjacent pic with hole in the plywood). And we wanted to really beef up that subfloor so added a bunch of 2x4 cross members to the joists, then came in and secured the sub flooring. We’ll dry fit the Schluter Ditra shower system drain body to the drain trap below, make sure everything lines up correctly and then permanently secure it, then come in with our prefabbed Ditra shower floor which has sloping to the drain built into it (which is nice)!
We’re also going with a traditional shower valve and head plus a shower pole with spray nozzle head (aka, an additional water valve for spray nozzle and separate feed to the pole/sprayer line) which will be to the left of the water wall. The spray nozzle being ideal for cleaning purposes!
In keeping with shoring up the sub flooring (we aim to finish that this weekend), also needed to land some sub-sub flooring (?) for the water faucet to the new stand alone soak tub. Turns out this thing is pretty heavy and one look at the directions summed it up. The water faucet pole feed requires a 2” thick and 6” wide “shelf” to sit on just to hold it up! It also went on to mention that your usual 2 x 6 board would not be sufficient (you know, with the 2 actually being 1.5 and the 6 being less than 6) so had to get creative and ran two 2 x 4’s flat between the joists and then topped them with a 3/4” piece of plywood putting us over the 2” requirement (see below pics). And of course, it all has to be at exactly the correct height, in regards to, finished floor in the end so, in short, lots of intense measuring!
While the above was going down, we also found some time to finish up the kitchen island cabinet paint job which came out really nice, bar stools for island are next!
The Progress pics below. See you next week!
Pulp Improvements
The 257 Project
Most Recent Pics for Sale
Nothing at All
A long time ago, in a small apartment in New York City, I was listening to a Prince song, simply called “7” and I was very much getting into the sound of the guitar playing, and what I perceived as an “open” chord strum, aka, just hitting those strings with no fingers applied (forgive me if that was mistaken). I tried to work that into something, and came up with a riff that I thought was pretty catchy. Not 100% sure what mood I was in at the time but decided that “you don’t need Nothing at All” was a good premise and ran with it. Years later, and also during the pandemic, decided it was a good time to rebuild it. Got busy with my wonderful musician friends and a new version it was.
Hope you enjoy!
The 1800 Project
Here’s the trailer to the exciting new movie coming out this summer (okay, so maybe not really a movie, more a couple long form video’s to document the start to finish of this project)! Truth is, had a little fun with a movie trailer template they have and this is the “story” of the 1800 Project to date. Enjoy!
The Ray Harm and Guy Coheleach Limited Edition Prints Prints
We recently mentioned that we had been gifted a fine collection of Ray Harm and Guy Coheleach “limited edition” art prints which we intend to eventually sell here from the website (will be setting up a page in our shop collection). Currently doing a complete inventory of what we have and documenting all of that. Wanted to share a little taste of what we are talking about so will feature a pic or two each week until we get that shop page up and running. This week’s sample print below!
American Goldfinch
