Pool bath. Guest suite bath. Laundry room with the tankless water heater and a temporary laundry sink.
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We showed you how we installed the terrazzo tiles in the master and hall bath. Now, we will show you how the installation went in the pool bath, guest bath and the laundry room. Here is what the Level Quick looks like before setting the tile. You can see the pops of red from the Red Guard in the center left of the photo. Then, lay out tiles to find out how many you need, and to see where you need to grind down some of the Level Quick. Lay lines if you need to, then put down adhesive, and start laying tile. Lay more adhesive, lay tile, and press. No grout needed. Use a linoleum roller to make sure the corners and the tile itself adheres properly. Cut whatever else you need to fit, adhere, wait, then seal. Some of the easiest tile to work with.
One of the issues that Tucsonans have during this time of the year is the North American Monsoon. From roughly July 4 to mid-September (officially June 15 to September 30), short yet intense thunderstorms provide much of Southern Arizona's rain for the year. One can almost set a clock to the summer storms, as they hit nearly every afternoon in the Tucson area. If you have seen any desert southwest photo of a cactus with lightning, odds are that photo was taken during monsoon season. The problem is, they are extremely dangerous, and folks often get trapped in flash floods or lose power due to errant lightning strikes. Therefore, any outdoor work ends up slowing down. That's just how it is. In our previous post, we showed you the progress that we've done painting parts of the patio and guest suite. Ultimately, we needed to finish the backyard exterior doors before they were installed. With the nearly daily rains, properly priming and painting exterior doors is vital. Several of the exterior doors when we bought the house had not been properly primed or repainted, so the doors had rotted. And yes, some were mahogany. Oh well. We thought, since the pool bath door and kitchen door were both part of the patio that we could get away with painting them a different color than the guest suite and master bedroom doors. Nathan was obsessed with this lime green color. I figured it couldn't hurt, since it is just paint. I like the crazy pop of color. Surprisingly, it works.
Hello, faithful readers. It's been a while, but we have some fun stuff to show you! We painted the pool bath. I like how the shelving turned out. The pocket door (blue strip) has been installed, too. We also got the rest of the tile from B & W. So, here we are, the pool shower is finished. We are waiting on Terrazzo flooring from Fritztile for the bathrooms. Things are moving quickly, which is nice to say, for once.
More is happening to the half bath - turned - pool bath. Our contractor's drywall guys came by to finish framing in the shower and the shelving. Unfortunately, there are 2 parts of the house that are technically not part of the square footage, as there is no ventilation/air vents. The half bath - turned - pool bath is one of them. Well, we added a vent, as you can see here. What was once just an opening right into the bathroom is now a small hallway into a bath and the laundry room. This will *hopefully* be terrazzo tile. Tile time for the pool shower. Once again, we used the glazed 4 x 4 tile from B & W. Sadly, this will be the last post about the pool bath for a little bit - we ordered the wrong amount of tile, and need another five square feet to finish, which means that with the holiday we have to wait a while until B & W can send us more. Also, we are still trying to find an installer for the terrazzo flooring that we want in the bathrooms. So, until we get that settled, there are other improvements that are coming along. Stay tuned!
So, the plumbing and electrical inspections for the new pool bath have been approved. Things are moving quite quickly with that bathroom. Here is the framing for the new shower and storage shelving for the pool bath. The shower will be 40 x 36, with the green tile from B & W lining the walls. Framing for the pocket door. This bathroom had no door, and went straight into the laundry (and the guest suite). By adding a pocket door, there is some privacy. As there should have been in the first place. New wall with drywall. A proper shower light fixture - a 4 inch wet-rated LED from Nuvo. In order to have an entrance to the pool bath from the pool, we needed to add a door. Thankfully, that was not a problem. This was originally an outdoor storage unit (with some pretty sweet, albeit heavily oil-stained, blue laminate), but it was not taken care of properly and had some significant wood rot. So we removed it, and removed the window that was over the storage area. As you can see, we kept the window, in case some other window in the house needed to be replaced. The new door has keyless entry, and will be frosted for privacy.
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In October 2016, Nathan & Rachel bought a 1958 Tom Gist custom home in the Mid-Century filled Wilshire Heights neighborhood in Tucson, AZ. This is our blog documenting the restoration! Archives
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