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it is the day after winter solstice we are like three days away from Christmas so that seems like a great time to engage on a complete bathroom renovation right the thermal take view 71 snow Edition shows off your building style with a frosty white paint job and four tempered glass side panels you also get two pre-installed hundred and forty millimeter ringed white LED fans a vertical GPU mount with bracket and 3-way radiator support for water cooling so click the sponsor link in the description to learn more so that's right guys this video is a bathroom remodel we're doing I'm gonna say like a 2/3 remodel on this bathroom not a complete remodel a quick disclaimer before we get started though I am by no means an expert at this so you know take everything I say with a grain of salt we're planning this as we go and I'm figuring stuff out based on other YouTube videos which by the way I will link down in the video's description we have two days to complete this project we're gonna start by pulling stuff out and doing a paint job today and then tomorrow we're gonna be replacing the vanity hopefully also the mirror up there swapping out a new toilet and lastly a quick fix for our shower door we're just gonna remove it and replace it with a curtain because this current one is very difficult to clean we're gonna leave the tile up in here and we're also not doing anything about the floor for now because we might be replacing our floors in the future current floors aren't much to look at but fortunately the vanity we're installing is a floating one so if we need to get at that in the future we can replace the floors without having to move that although we will have to pull the toilet again probably but here is what we're replacing them with for the sink top we have the rat of ikan which I'm not gonna try to oh okay here you go there you go happy ok he's happy now we've got the dull scar faucet there for hot and colds just a single post for that and then finally we've got the God DeMorgan actual vanity with two drawers in it God Morgan of course IKEA is reference to the very popular movie Bruce Almighty starring Jim Carrey and Morgan Freeman who plays God so I'm going to attempt to document this as best I can with a time-lapse and I'll interjects what I think it's necessary when things are going right or going wrong the first steps are going to be to move this existing vanity so I can get a better look at the plumbing behind there and then we're also going to pull the toilet out and then we're gonna go shopping so we can get some paint and we still need to get two replacement mirror so I've cleared stuff out and in case you're wondering the main reasons why we wanted to do this little projects one this mirror is large and bulky and it's also quite high my life is a little bit shorter so I wanna get something that we can lower down a little bit and then this vanity is really just I mean it's wood and it's kind of ornate but it's really just a lot more than we want it gets really dusty down in the bottom and it's very hard to clean underneath and it's got this copper ball in it which my wife just hates it's very very difficult to keep clean she like scoured this with a brillo pad like last week and it's already like very messy so getting rid of that this is also not level so that that would be nice to have this level and that's kind of the inspiration and then the toilets just old and I'm not even to show you guys that again the floor we are planning to replace in the future but not quite ambitious enough to do that now but I think we're at the point where we can pull this away from the wall check out what's going on behind it so I got the p-trap pulled out and I'm sparing you guys the more horrific parts of this job but I've also disconnected these two which are the feets for the hot and cold water and I'm gonna have to replace this it's still dripping very slowly this won't actually just recently replaced that's what kind of gave me the courage to do this job was that I replaced that one without too much difficulty the other day and didn't have to call plumber for it this one I noted didn't have the PTFE wrap on it so for installation job there from the get-go but it's leaking too so I'm gonna have to turn off the main water and replace that in the meantime though this drain is what I'm my main concern is as you can see they did a very thorough painting job when this was initially installed also don't look down there don't look down there it's horrible so I wasn't gonna show this because it's somewhat horrible but I wanted to show some of the ways this old vanity failed for instance this vertical piece here is supposed to be sealed on the other side like with some silicone they never did that so every time that water was pulling up again because it wasn't level it was leaking through back here and dripping down and causing all this rust and decay furthermore you can see the kind of half-assed paint job you were to think they would have painted here before they installed all this but they obviously tried to paint back behind certain areas as indicated by the paint on the back of the vanity itself the baseboard likewise was only painted up to and then back here we have a really gross area where there was obviously in the past some cockroaches going on now we don't typically have cockroach issues here in our home thankfully this is old but it's still gross so I'm not going to show you how to clean that up but they didn't even continue the baseboard all the way along here they just used some small pieces to kind of finish it out there in the corner so I'm gonna need to replace that entire baseboard although fortunately I think there isn't much in the way of water damage down there at the bottom that appears to be just wet because of these connections I have just disconnected unfortunately I had a cap to put on that one right there so that it wouldn't keep dripping it's a very very slow drip now so at this point I'm just trying to get us field trip ready this is all the assembly for the drainage underneath the sink and this is specifically the piece that needs to go right here so the right side of this needs to join up with this drain piece right here this is PVC and I was actually kind of scared that this was going to be copper and there's different ways to join the copper to the PVC here but since it is PVC I'm gonna cut this off because I need to shorten this anyway then I can use a standard PVC adapter to get down to this width and just glue it up as I cut it out well you made it to Home Depot item number one was found this is actually really hard to find cuz they were out of them but I discovered it and we found a toilet we wanted to get a single piece toilet not one of these split piece ones and there's honestly only one right here so that's what we're going with the Glacier Bay and many different options for white well this is more cream I guess I raffia cream they both look good not as yellow as cream we're getting there almost ready to head back and start working and added a handcart we got our paints got some sponges more painting stuff things looking good I have no idea how much this is all gonna cost so we had a lovely in and out lunch and diana has actually been in here wiping the walls down which was nice fun to make sure those are free of dust and detritus so that the paint will adhere to it meanwhile I got to figure out the plumbing situation back there and if I didn't already mention it I capped this guy off because it was leaking I was gonna get a replacement for this one this is the lower one that I already replaced and then I discovered that's our new IKEA faucet does not have the same size connectors as our old faucet now my kid has very good directions for international because they ship worldwide depending on your location so if we're here in North America our connectors should be 9/16 that's a go home IKEA you're drunk because that is absolutely not 9/16 right there this is actually 3/8 so I guess we got the European version but that is fine because instead of getting one replacements quarter-turn shutoff valve I got two of them with the proper connection up on top so I got about these down there then we can move on with clearing all this stuff out of here so we can paint yes I already shut the water off in case you were wondering got both of them off I've made some progress as you can see we have removed the vanity we have removed the toilets we have cleaned up most of the stuff down there although we still need to do maybe a little bit sanding in the rough spots so everything is pretty clear in here we are definitely thinking like while we probably should replace this tile because it's not the best tile in a bathroom and big surprise this is taking longer than expected so it's dark now but we should hopefully be able to get at least one paint coat of paint on still this evening welcome to day two so here's where we left off last night I got to bed at about 1 a.m. and we did get our initial first coat of paint on we have been expecting to do two coats with this paints of areas you can see that don't have full coverage should get better coverage and I did try to remove all the panels and everything to paint behind stuff so we have no more splotchy areas the only thing I didn't remove was the events here for the air conditioner and heating and that was so I could leave the time lapse attached to that so I did that for you guys after the next coat of paint though I need to redress one of my ball valves down here which is very very very slowly leaking if they can need to take that off and reattach it so here is my plumbing problem and it's one that I'm hoping doesn't force me to call plumber this is about as far as I am comfortable going with the plumbing because I don't know how to do welding and stuff like that but I have an existing fitting on here and then there's a sleeve that goes on it right there and then that connects to your ball valve and I think it's a great compression in there to make it watertight now my problem is these are pretty much fused on here I think these are original and the cap that means the cap here I can't get off unfortunately with this top one it worked and I just used the existing cap and put it on and everything's fine they're nice and watertight with this lower one when I try to compress it there's a leak out the back so what I'm gonna try to do is push this cap back I'm gonna hack use my hack side and just chop this off right behind that ring I may need to say in the pipe down a little bit and then I got a replace a hair replacement set right here with the rake the cap and the sleeve so that's about how much I cut off and that turned out pretty clean I think so Thanks cutting tool hey RTX it just works I don't want to celebrate too soon or anything here but for the time being the water back on it looks like it's not leaking anymore that is very nice okay time to paint coat number two just finish the second coat of paint and I get to peel this stuff it is now day three of this two-day project so yes that means it's Christmas Eve now Merry Christmas everyone unfortunately we don't have too much going on for Christmas here we have some family coming over tomorrow so we're trying to get things wrapped up to a point where the bathroom is usable again let me take you through what we finished off last night we removed the old glass shower door that was really kind of janky the way it was mounted here they had actually used wooden shims along with side which is really not the best I'm talking about a damp environment so there was some Christmas going on there so we've just replaced it with a simple shower curtain just to keep things easy for now that's all in there we're doing a rough set up for the vanity and trying to figure out where my studs are my studs are like here here and here and the vanities a little bit wider than that so what I'm gonna be doing is moving these mounts a little bit out then I'm gonna put an extra piece of wood back in here to reinforce it then I'm gonna mount that wood straight back to the studs and that should get things nice and stable and sturdy before any of that that we're gonna put our trim in but we're just gonna put it in temporarily because one of the things we haven't done in this project is replace the floor we've decided we do want to do that relatively soon so in the interest of keeping things simple for that project in another month or two we're going to just sort of lay in the trim around the edges I'll try to cut it to size and then beyond that we're not gonna paint it or anything so that would make it easier get the toilet in get this mounted and then hopefully we'll be done with this project for the time being we're still not 100% set on our mirror or the cupboard we're gonna put over here yet so that stuff still remains to be seen but functionally we need a toilet and a sink and a shower and hopefully we can get that all set today these are just roughed in for now but given that I have never done molding before in my life I'd say this turned out okay sad news friends we have run into a major problem it was my fault I'll that didn't see it coming I was nailing in the baseboard down there at the bottom with some finishing screws in perfectly innocuous and safe locations somehow I found one of the copper supply lines I believe and I punched a hole right through it there's the offending nail there was immediate water pressure release and spray behind the wall that I could hear so I went and shut off my water again and now we are breaking down and having our plumber come by hopefully it doesn't cost too much extra on Christmas Eve but he can at least help me out with like the very very very very slow leak still happening with this and maybe mounting the toilet to that be convenient while we wait for the plumber some Mexican food and on the way back from lunch we get some drywall tape we got some grout and we got a quarter sheet of drywall Tonio worked in while we wait for the plumber and mounting this vanity is still gonna be a challenge I'm going to mount an extra piece of wood to the back so I can mount the wood to the wall and then bolts the vanity to the wood but the wood piece I have is a little too thick so it was actually sticking out here at the back so rather than get a thinner piece of wood because I do want some thickness this is just a piece of pine I decided to use my router and just sort of mill out the ends here so I'm trying to get the depth right on this and then I can go ahead and do the other side there as well and now here we are this this is the end of the video where I reveal that I have failed and everything everything went wrong technically not everything but I did have major point of failure when I put a finishing nail through the baseboard right into a copper pipe and immediately had a bunch of water spring behind the drywall and I knew that I had caused a major major problem so it's pre up the comments yes I am an idiot and I should have known better I know that you're not supposed to just nail or screw things into wall without checking what's behind there but I've never actually had a major fail like this before so I'm gonna be much more careful in the future and for the time being right now there is a space cut out on the wall right there so let me show you where we're at so as you can see we've got a drain right there and then we've got two copper pipes and these are these supply lines and that pipe there is the one that I punched through and that is the temporary patch that the plumber put on there because I managed to do it at such a low point here in the wall that it's really challenging to get enough copper pipe to work with to actually patch it properly so he did a temporary fix on Christmas Eve and then he's gonna come back on Friday so if you can cut further up the wall and try to bend that pipe out a little bit to get a little bit more play a little bit more room to work with and then hopefully he can patch that properly and professionally and won't have to jackhammer into the concrete but we will see how that goes if you're wondering this is about a $500 mistake that I made yeah in the means I know since we didn't hit our deadline of getting this project done before Christmas we now have more time since it's after Christmas and the deadline isn't as much of a big deal anymore so now that we have more time available I'm thinking like maybe I should tear up the floor since obviously the floor is not the best in here and it would be good to do that before we get the toilet mounted and stuff so I now may be adding to this project so hopefully the part 2 video where I come back and show you guys everything finished and clean and done will be interesting as well thank you guys so much for watching this video though and by the way I have more home renovation projects planned in the future for 2019 so let me know in the comments below if you want to see more like this and then lastly there have been several and YouTube channels that have been insanely helpful for me in this so I'm gonna take links to the videos that I thought were most helpful and put those in the description too so check them out down there if you're interested in people who know more about what they're doing than me doing projects like this thanks again guys hit the thumbs up button on your way out we'll see you in the next video