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This Week’s Featured Pulp Improvement
Pulp Bath Reno 2
Pulp Bath Reno 2
So, of course, one of the things you need to deal with in an old house…..not so level floors! And the Pulp Bath Reno 2 is no stranger to that. What we found on this one was a slight pitch coming from outside wall to the soon to be new shower (aka, where the toilet sits). Now it’s not end of the world pitch and would probably go unnoticed when all said and done being semi-hidden by the shower water wall, but, why not go ahead now and try to make it better, right?
While we have worked with leveling compounds in the past, the fact that our current subfloor is a mix of planks with gaps and plywood, figured best to get it close and flat with no gaps, then apply some compound at transitions so we have a smooth and level surface to land the Durock on (and this floor will be heated, so after Durock comes the Schluter Ditra orange matting base that holds the heat cables. The solution to get there? Going with quarter inch plywood (see adjacent pic) which is giving the lower side lift but is also fairly easy to apply a transition edge to for the next two layers going on top. We’ve got a nice ending point outside the shower where the rest of the floor is level so thinking this is going to work out just fine!
That said, we’ve got our drains for shower and tub exactly where they want to be now. We’ve straightened out the shower water wall (oh yeah, it was quite a bit off) and getting ready to construct the additional water wall (remember, the current one is a little wobbly so we are going to double it up to give it both strength and a pass at the top to reroute our water lines that run up and through the ceiling). Need to land the subfloor support for the new bath tub free standing water spout (it’s heavy and it has a base that sits below the floor) and then start running the finish water lines to all the new fixtures.
Also started another one of those side projects recently, painting the kitchen island cabinets! Since kitchen is in pretty good and very usable shape already, everything we are doing in there is just to make it better so it’s kind of a leisure project, which is nice.
We’ll get as much done as possible today and maybe early tomorrow, we’ve got the Super Bowl coming up and very looking forward to the entire experience (love judging the commercials and maybe we’ll get a good game in)!
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
