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what's up guys welcome to my bathroom remodel video part 2 let's start off with a quick recap of what happened in part 1 so this is our master bath ensuite attached to our master bedroom and the main goals were to replace the toilets replace the old large and cumbersome vanity was that was right there also replaced the mirror get rid of the shower door and replace it with a curtain and finally just generally get a nice paint job in there and improve the overall look and feel of our bathroom the goal was to get it done in two days the two days just prior to Christmas Eve and unfortunately I failed and the last day actually I'm Christmas Eve by punching a hole through one of these pipes with a baseboard finishing nail we had a plumber come by to do a patch on that but the puncture was so low that he couldn't actually fix it at the time so he's supposed to come back on Friday in a couple days to cut a larger piece out of our nicely repainted drywall so he can get more access to the pipe and actually patch it up properly after that I can patch the drywall we can mount our vanity we can hopefully install the toilets but you might notice that our floors in here are still the old existing floor so this is what's been added since we now have more time since we are not on a time crunch to get this done before Christmas anymore we're now just on a time crunch to get the floor may be redone before the plumber comes back alright so using nothing but my hammer and the chisel of hatred here I have removed my first tile there it is and I have learned that the floor seems fairly level beneath that and I'm not getting a whole lot of leftover stuff here the mortar and everything's coming off pretty easily we already have an undercut for the door coping here so I can get a measurement for that before I go to the hardware store and there also appears to be some moisture over here possibly I hope not but we're gonna have to probably do moisture testing here as well but I think at least I'm gonna be able to learn enough here to head to Home Depot alright here's my home depot haul I got some quarter-round this is synthetic and it's waterproof so that would be good for the bathroom I got some finishing nails here one and a quarter inch like eighty percent less likely to punch through a copper pipe with those got some cleanup bags I got buckets because I felt like you know look it's a good to have floor chisel is gonna be important for clearing off and flattening that floor before we apply the laminate flooring itself which is right here this is called Peugeot outlast plus it's vinyl and we got the vintage pewter oak finish I also got oh I have a big dog you like the quarter rounds here Oh I got a crowbar because it's good to have a crowbar I got some plastic to put over furniture because we're gonna make a little nest I got a rubber mallet cuz I don't want one of those I got a concrete fitting so I'm hoping I can use this with my hammer drill but I could totally be wrong about that I got a fancy canvas drop cloth because I was jealous of my plumbers and I got a dEWALT's cutting tool let's move on you so last night's I was able to tear out the floor the tile it it all came out it wasn't too terribly difficult - took me hour and a half to two hours but today I had a bunch of other stuff to do so it's already getting dark outside as I come back to this but I wanted to point out a few things before I get back to work one is that I totally had the wrong type of flooring before I accidentally had a laminate flooring oops we switched to this lifeproof which is vinyl vinyl which means it's waterproof like on the top and the bottom because it's not made of wood it also has the underlayment pre-attached which is nice so all I should really have to worry about in here is a floor that is flat and level unfortunately is pretty much level and it's pretty much flat - the towel came off pretty good for the most part except over here in the corner where I believe they might have used some leveling compound or something like that but before they install the last floor so I need to try to get rid of the rest of the mortar II ridges sticking up along here which I can hopefully do with my scraping tool and if I can do that and get everything flat then the floor will be ready to put in I don't think that'll take too long cuz it's just the tongue and groove stuff that snaps in the sides and measuring it won't be too difficult since this room is pretty square and not very big will mean about five and a half by five point seven feet but beyond that the place that was damp over here has gotten very dry so I'm pretty sure that it was the old floor that was causing issues with leakage there I'm gonna have the plumber double check that and make sure it's all good and then of course I need to leave this a little bit unfinished over here so he can get it what he needs to get at under there then once he finishes that I can patch the drywall not the vanity install the rest of the floor and then hopefully by the time we leave on Saturday which is our next deadline is we're going out of town for the weekend on Saturday we will have a functional bathroom let's see so here is the floor at least as far along as I got with it last nights it was pretty straightforward pretty simple to install snapping things in place using a mallet where necessary to cinch down these seams and then cutting out the piece where the toilets passed through was the most challenging part and for that I just measured it and cut it out with my jig saw and I did it twice I did it once that it was off but then I used that cut to measure how far off I was and then the second time I did a lot better so that's pretty good and pretty stable so that should be good for mounting a toilet which we're doing this morning what's the plumber gets here and then of course the final fix on the wall and the leak back there patched that up and move on with everything else the interest of keeping things waterproof we're switching from this filler wood based molding to this stuff which is synthetic so it's waterproof and it is a little bit more expensive but since we don't need a whole lot of it in the bathroom I think it's gonna be a better job this is the baseboard that got wet when I punch through that pipe in part one you'll note some slight warpage part of the reason why I went with synthetic so the warpage on that baseboard kind of freaked me out and I've got some more draw what I'm putting in as I've already been showing so given this a quick sand and then I just picked up some clear polyurethane so hopefully have time to do a couple coats of this to make sure this is moisture resistant or moisture it's a saturday now well guys we are officially at the one weak point in this project this two-day project the plumber came yesterday but he arrived kind of late because he had an earlier job that took a lot of time so unfortunately after he cut the wall away here he decided he was probably going to need to come back today so this morning let me show you what's going on in wall here so here's where I punched a hole and that's what needs to be patched in the fact that it's so low to the concrete here meant that he needed to get some extra space in order to work with the pipe in order to get it fixed when he tore the wall away though he found that there's a manifold here and split off to go up to the actual supply line over there and then there's another one that goes back down into something else under the concrete long story short though he needs to replace this entire perch in order to get that part to fix the hole that I made which sucks but what I have this done right our plumbers name is Enrique and he does a really good job he's very thorough and does things the right way I have done a little bit of soldering but I am not comfortable enough to work with something like this I don't even have a torch for it so when it comes to something that's going to be in our wall and that we're gonna be relying on for plumbing we want to make sure it's done right so and then everything else is pretty much prepped to go so we can hopefully just go bang bang bang install everything and then we get to leave for the weekend so cool new pipes installed we're gonna leak tests now oh that's how it was still I um plus say nothing's leaking there we are moving on with the toilet installation like that double whacks we have a new toilet hooray it's all still all everything's working we gotta wait a few hours to sit on it cuz okay wait for the seal at the bottom to cure the day is also installed and I wanted to point out something about this toilet if you're shopping for a toilet I made me consider the single piece one we like that because there's no joint there to get all messy and then the second thing is being able to reach under right here to get at the mounting points for the actual toilet seat because if you ever want to remove this to install the day or to remove the toilet seat to give it a full cleaning you definitely don't want one like we had before which you can only get out by like reaching through the back and so it's the toilets position of anywhere where you can't do that then you have to pull it off in order to do that and that's that's really kind of a pain in the butt let's move on though switching to drywall mode now I'll ace head was quarter sheets of drywall and this is half inch thickness which is a little bit thinner than existing drywall so I'm going to need to leave this up a little bit so I can get that flush oh yeah before I close this up I'm going to take some very important pictures and that should be invaluable in the future whether I'm trying to find exactly where the studs are or trying to avoid this stuff so looking about this piece and as mentioned I need to space it off a little bit from the stud here and I'm gonna use this getter method you're gonna need to cut these last two pieces and in order to do that I measured the wall actually first I measured and I was gonna cut them all the same length then I realize this wall is not straight or at least it's not 90-degree parallel or perpendicular ever it's it's not straight so I measured width there and I'm got it there and then I measured width here and I marked it there also marked it on this one cuz this is gonna be the last piece and then I measured the final width there marked it around there so I can cut these at a slight angle with my jigsaw and then they should fit suddenly the vanity is installed exactly we blocked it up mostly level we're just getting a height test right now so we make sure it's low enough cuz the other one was way too high but we're not gonna Center it under the lights it's only issue is that outlet right here but we're gonna put the mirror directly above that at this point we've decided if we're not happy with it we'll we'll fix it in a couple of years or something then I got a measure to cut a piece out of the lower piece of wood to make room for the wet works down there we'll pull it off start mounting stuff a rough sketch of the notch I need to cut out will test fit here and I think we barely barely have enough clearance with the drawer pretty much all the way in ooh look at that I think we can move on just discovered my lovely wife discovered fortunately early this well relatively early this horrible conflict which is at the back the sink has these pieces right here which stick down unfortunately conflict with this back piece so I have outlined where I can cut this let the sink will still go there and here's a solution I've cut this wood backer piece one more time I made some notches along the side cut a bit off the top and have resealed it once again with three more layers of polyurethane there it is my unique mounting method for the IKEA God Morgon Benny I can put the top I and get the plumbing so everything is plumbed up down here I have connected water lines and everything pretty much straight up here and your grass no leaks no media leaks time to install this mirror so this mirror is almost square it's a little bit of a rectangle they want you to mount it at six points they do not give you screws they do give you these mounting things - this one is for the top this one's for the bottom Aamir's 39 inches wide they want you to put these in about two to four inches and fortunately you have a 16 inch separation between our stud there you can put one two three four five six and mount directly to the studs to do that I'm going to be using some two and a half inch construction screws again this is wave overkill I put my first hole in the center stud and then they use my long level here to get some lines down for the left one and the right one so now that we got our bottom row we just need to measure up the wall 36 and 8 sixteenths of an inch or a top row by the way just a tip here IKEA 8/16 is a half 36 and a half inches it's a tape on my long level of 36 and a half inches but I was trusting the IKEA instructions that this would work once they're all installed it was only after getting these tough ones in that I actually figured it out but stop in first and then these fish up a little bit they're spring-loaded so then we can pop the bottom edge into the bottom ones all right guys this is getting really really close as you can see we got the mirror installed and then I was a pretty late last night doing some caulking around the baseboards after those were all nailed in fortunately they were nailed in without any further burst pipes I am so happy about that my wife has been doing some shopping for some accessories to match things up and really really make the color scheme pop I suppose and then I also did a bead of silicone along the base of the shower tile here and just in case anything flows out of there make sure you want to keep that water tight so I'll throw that for today it's a paint in the baseboards they're white since the conk should be dry now and I'm gonna mount a couple towel racks on the wall right here and lastly toilet paper holder it's gonna go right there alright guys it is now Saturday January 5th so officially two weeks since we started working on this project I am now ready to show you the after shots there is the finished bathroom and I'm gonna start out by pointing out some details like for instance I put this stripped down transition and stripped down and I didn't film when I was installing this but I did use a masonry bit to drill them to the concrete and secure that nice and solid so that it's not going anywhere I also did some precision edge trimming here to make sure it would but up nicely against the existing doorframe we've been using various elements of the bathroom for the past few days and I can confirm that everything is functional we have no leaks last night I finished painting the baseboards as well as adding a little bit more silicone caulking around the outer area of the shower here to make sure everything is nice and waterproof also added the towel racks you can see back here and then just this morning we also added a how an hand towel rack if there's anything missing that we're still planning to add it's probably gonna be a medicine cabinet on that wall right there we do have one we're not a hundred percent sure we're gonna go with it so we decided to leave that out for now we can live without it though especially since we have plenty of storage now via these drawers also last night just edit the handles onto these speaking of drawers here is one of the jurors from our old vanity so first off just like size difference that's pretty awesome we have so much more storage down here now also kind of a sad thing but this old vanity is actually pretty well made this is solid wood it's built out of these are dovetail joints which are like oh my gosh dovetail joints so I think at least the frame of this whole thing I am going to keep and it'll it'll move into my workbench area or something like that I did need to make an adjustment or two to the plumbing back here after we started right on the water through it but fortunately everything is all set now I wanted to point out that I added a bead of silicone between this rubber gasket here and the top of the porcelain this is kind of unfinished porcelain at that edge so that helped this from a very slow leak that it was happened happening with the drain then I also added a bead of silicone around the drain right there as well as around the faucet finally over in this corner the new toilets not too much to say about it other than its clean functional new we got a to flush option now depending on how serious things are I've got the bidet installed of course and it's a much better seated on the very flat floor now and that the plumber did it silicone beat around that as well also pro tip if your wife has an aversion to changing the toilet paper roll get to one of these slides right I've gotten all the construction implements cleaned up out of our bedroom now too so things are looking pretty good and one last thing I wanted to do before I let you guys go is take a look at my receipts to get an assessment of how much this project actually cost so going by store we took two trips to Ikea as well as an online order and we spent about seven hundred and forty dollars we had four trips to Home Depot and spent about nine hundred and fifty dollars we had four trips to my local Ace Hardware here and spent another close to $200 and then of course there was the plumber who charged six hundred and fifty seven so the total was about two thousand five hundred dollars for this project out of pocket however that does include some extra stuff like a handcart tools that I will be able to use in the future and in going over those receipts we found that Home Depot charges twice for the toilet so I guess - about a hundred and seventy dollars from that grand total look guys that's gonna wrap it up for this video thank you all so much for the feedback on the part one of this and of course leave me more feedback and let me know what you think of the finished project in the comments section down below I'm definitely going to be doing some videos on further home improvement projects I have in the future of course those will be here in there I'm still going to be doing tech content as well thank you guys again so much hit the thumbs up button on your way out we'll see you guys next time