Reno continue: shower framing

Shower framing -  big work, especially when you do not have framing gun or impact driver, when for every screw you need pre-drill hole. Well.... you do what you need to do:o)  That means that frame is up... almost.

 My best tools last two weeks          Archie as usual inspects quality of work

and after sleeps well after hard work

Actually yesterday I was happy that all framing was done with screws. When trying to fit sink's enforcement details I came to the "Ops" moment.  It's hard to "move" mind from brick and mortar techniques that I so used to, to wood, OSB and dry wall. I realize that framing area where sink should go, was framed not wide enough. So ... unscrew and screw again, that was easy:o)

 Good and strong construction, but wrong place (see below)

B/W sink as you see is covered with mosaic attached with epoxy grout/mortar. Here I did mistake, not exactly mistake, but working with epoxy you should mix and use all quantity of material and I also wanted to use it as thin set and grout in one. I just didn't think that one thing is to use it for the floor (flat surface) and another for 3D object. Vertical walls began to sag because of thickness and freshness of the material (it doesn't set as quick as regular thin set) so I needed to put some support, but anyway got some big white/empty spaces which I decided to decorate with handmade resin/fluorescent/glow tesserae. I ordered fluorescent pigment will see how it goes.

Today  was HEAVY DUTY DAY : plumber worked more on rerouting /adding shower fixtures. I had another "Ops" moment with my sink :o( To my husband's delight (that he's got his way:o) we couldn't install sink above the toilet. I haven't took into consideration sink's draining height (OK I did but not enough) and sink got wayyyy to high, so we moved it  to the "normal" location - between toilet and shower. That made me very unhappy - I didn't want sink (even a small one) to block a small space. Well... you do what you need to do. Also we installed liner and made shower bed. It was HEAVY DUTY job. My men were mixing 3 bags of concrete by hand and I was dry packing "the bed" and checking right slope every step. I feel my every muscle today:o) Now we need to wait 15 to 28 days for concrete to cure, so will be able to apply liquid membrane. I know it's long wait, but definitely worth it. Slowly but surely :o)