While the guys worked on
installing new windows on the front of our house, I started re-building the
powder room. First thing I test fit the vanity, in order to do so I had to
remove the door trim on that side, it fits very tightly in the space and doesn't even need screws to stay in place. After discovering there are no studs
in that part of the room, I drilled pilot holes for the screws that would hold
it up and removed it until I could get proper anchors.
Next I laid out the floor
tiles and cut any that needed to be. One trip to Canadian Tire for anchors
later, the vanity was back in place and screwed securely to the wall.
After hanging the vanity, I
tried to install the sink. When I bought it, I knew that I would have to remove
some of the drywall to get it to fit as it was ¼” wider than the room. I test
fit the sink, cut off some drywall on both sides of the room and test fit
again. It was tight and not sitting quite flat, so I tried to remove it. I
guess it was a little stuck and I twisted it a little while I pulled…and it
cracked in 2! Sh#t. Apparently I am
super strong.
This was quite the setback.
The sink goes in, then the tile goes in as it starts just above it, so without
the sink, the whole project would be setback. After venting my frustration a
bit, I re-grouped and decided to keep moving on the tiling. I installed a piece
of wood the equivalent of 4 lines of tile up from the sink, secured it to the
wall and started tiling up from there. Using only full tiles I did the wall and
will go back later to add the smaller pieces needed around the sides and top.
Once the wall tile was up, I
put in the floor tile that I had already laid out. Installing it went fast but
I ran out of adhesive for the last 2 tiles. By this time it was about 7 pm, so
I called it a day.
And now we know: those damn
porcelain sinks can’t take my super strength. It will take 4 days to get a new
sink in and there is now no way I can finish this project by the time I go back
to work. So irritating.
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