WC Remodel

The WC (Water Closet, or bathroom as you may know it) is coming along! After sitting vacant and empty for 1 whole year, I'm back at it and making progress. The plumbers came about a month ago and got our pipes sorted out, then I've been working on the weekends to get it up to speed. It's hard to take pictures in a 6x7 room with no lights, but here's a few to show the progress.

Working on the floor. I had removed the floor down to the dirt and went back with new joists since the old ones sag and are somewhat rotten.

Working on the door. We needed more room to fit the vanity in, so I "borrowed" the 24" door from the stairwell and replaced the existing 30" door. I suppose any of you who visit in a wheelchair will be out of luck, but it works for us for now! The hole where the old door was is being covered up, since it was useless anyway.

Originally there was a window in this bathroom. Somewhere along the way, the office was added and the window was covered up, but they cleverly left the opening and used it for shelving. I had to reduce the size to fit a standard 18" cabinet that will be recessed into the spot since the new shower will cover part of the old opening.

Jill was a really big help putting up the sheetrock over Labor Day weekend. It actually looks like a room now instead of a dark, dingy cave!

This weekend was spent taping, bedding and sanding the sheetrock. It's definitely coming along and texture is next! While we do the bathroom, we are also going to texture the adjacent bedroom and we also finished out the closet as well. The people who remodeled that closet, who didn't put sheetrock on the inside of it, did the work 10 years ago according to their note on the wall. I added my own note to point out I'm not the only nor worst procrastinator around this house!