Been in my house for 4 years now and I’m finally getting around to this…but here’s my sub $1000 bathroom remodeling project. Began gutting it last Friday. Here’s what I started with:
Not bad, not nice either. House was built in 1940 and had a shit ton of mortar on the walls holding the tiles on.
About 12 hours later and most of it was all down thanks to my trusty hammer and pry bar.
I forgot to mention in the opening thread that I have never remodeled a bathroom before…so go easy me. Some light plumbing rerouting was necessary. Years ago the hot water lines were replaced with copper and the drain with pvc. Since they didn’t want to go through the walls to make it look good, they went through the floor and right into the middle of the vanity:bloated: Made the storage area half of what it could be.
Since the existing floor was in good condition, and sitting on top of 2" of concrete, I decided to go right over the top of it.
First step was to sand the tile with 60 grit to allow the mortar to bite into the tile. Next was to mix up the Flexbond mortar, looks something like this:
This was the recommended goods when using tile over tile due to it’s bonding strength.
Next up was laying the tile down and trimming where necessary. I used a wet saw to trim, worked well.
Then threw the mortar down, went to work with the trowel, and as of tonight the floor is done.
you should have just waited until you’re done and posted before and after pics
Okay then…I’ll be back in a week or so to update this if you’d rather it be done that way.
i dont think it really matters, at least this way if he has some questions or someone notices something, he might be able to fix it before its done.
make sure that you get a good bead of caulk or sealant on the tub baseline. when i installed hardwood floors, that was the biggest complaint from people. (although i dont know why the fuck you install wood floors in your bathroom in the first place.)
so you tiled over tile?
it looks like vynl that you tiled over, so it should stick fine, but the only thing i would warn against is if water somehow got underneath the vynl before hand (which is very possible, every vynl bathroom i have tore up there has been water spots and sometimes rot) it will make the ceramic tile pop up 
just be sure to get a very good sealant around every edge, but it looks great so far :tup:
Looks good, love that new floor. If you’re looking for good paint let me know, I’m guessing there is no fan in there so you’ll want something that will hold up well.
What section are you in again? The hell with that. Mike, keep posting the during shots, I’m interested in seeing progress.
when we gut our bathroom I will be installing floor heaters in it
Nice so far… I’ve got something similar planned for next spring/summer for a room in my house… gonna add another bathroom to the house.
Nice, I love house projects. I am almost done with my remodel on my attic, which reminds me that I need to throw up some new pics.
:tup:
wow… that was an ugly bathroom… cant wait to see the final product… your garage turned out awesome.
+1 on the progress pics. I like seeing a project develop.
Looks good so far. Keep it up.
Yes, tile over tile. There was about 2" of mortar and then tile over that. I wasn’t about to rip that up, so I just scuffed it up and put new mortar and the mosaic tile down. The mosaic worked out great since it’s all 2" tile in a 12" sqaure, very easy to put down and conform to the floor underneath. The original floor was fairly level, but there were a few high spots that a 12" tile would have had an issue with.
No fan right now, just the window as a vent. I’m debating on how to deal with this. I could add a celing mounted vent pretty easily, but not sure since the bathroom has never really given me any issues before. I had originally planned to put in a glass block window and ceiling fan, but the window in there now is 36" tall and the glass block comes in at 32" tall (preformed). I really didn’t want to get too carried away, so I decided to leave the current window, get some plastic trim, and be done with it.
Another thing I considered, and something that would be really cool…err warm. With the heater vent right in the main area of the floor the floor doesn’t get very cold…maybe in the next bathroom project!
Last night I laid in the grout. I will be sealing it this afternoon.
:tup: sir.
looking good, nice floor.
Go with the fan you wont regret it.
PUT IN A CEILING FAN.
Got any recommendations? I’ve started looking into it more and not sure what’s best. Directly above the bathroom is attic crawl space, then the roof only a few feet away. I cruised through HD last night and notice they have quite a range of fans, from $10-$100+. I didn’t have too much time to ask the “pros” there…so if anyone here has some insight I’m all ears.
best one you can afford… reasonable quiet but not the cheapest pos on the wall. common sense and a brand name, i got a nice nutone on closeout i still have to install, my poor ceiling is getting fucked up from moisture too. gotta crawl in the corner of my attic to plumb mine too.
