My wife almost exclusively takes baths, and I exclusively take showers. And I don’t really love the idea of a claw foot tub with the full shower curtain.
And it’s all workable, at the end of the day the bedroom area will be pretty small (12x14) the bathroom will be 12x7, and we converted the old sleeping porch to a 15x8 closet.
I’m sure that is highly regional. I would bet here in my county they are not up to code. Romex isn’t even up to code here. Most plumbing and electrical of a DIY nature are prohibited.
Pex isn’t allowed in some areas in Illinois. I think there are towns that are 100% copper.
Chicago and NYC, probably some other areas, get really off the rails. Some places still require lead drains, or cast iron drains, no PVC.
I think some of it is driven by trade unions having pull, and some is due to historical events.
Rip out all out, paint the floor with killz, and put in a hard floor. As long as your cat is around, it will just ruin carpet.
I had a similar set up in my soaking tub. Note that usually, this tub type is not the only shower space in the bathroom. I had a separate shower stall that was 48" x 72". The hand held tub shower device was more or less only for washing & rinsing your hair after a tub soak. For me I was 99% showers and 1% baths, so that faucet got little use.
Not sure it’s ‘highly’ regional. I think code is pretty well unified in both countries, with minor variations. IIRC, the sharkbite stuff I looked up was part of a national code.
Plumbing and electrical isn’t DIY here either technically. Supposed to call a plumber here to connect the drain to the sink. Nobody does, but yeah, it’s supposed to be done by a licensed plumber.
That’s the impression i got last time I went digging into this stuff.
Well, ok, maybe highly regional is not quite the correct phrase.
Illinois uses its own plumbing and electric codes and rejects some national codes as being too lax (you can and should read that as a fact that the politicians in Illinois that approve the codes have an affinity relationship with the unions)
Some towns in Illinois can make codes even more stringent that the Illinois codes. No Pex allowed in Naperville.
As I said, Romex is not allowed here. Pex has only been accepted for a few years. I looked for sharkbites codes, and they cannot be used for unions - only valves and only accessible, which means they have very limited usefulness.
Yeah. I think she did this because the litter boxes are upstairs and the foster cats are also (locked in a room) upstairs, so it was just more convenient and less stress to do it in the room she has been hiding in lately. I was expecting her to get old and pee everywhere, but she’s not quite there yet.
Anyways, my office is the only room on the main floor that has carpet so I’m right there with you - we should probably just go straight to hardwood. Hopefully I can match the rest of the main floor(?).
A soak in a separate tub is more pleasant than one in a combo, in my opinion. And I don’t really appreciate having all that length in a shower, although it’s not really a big deal.
I especially hate hate hate hate hate hate hate a shower door on a bathtub. A shower curtain is a mild annoyance but you may as well not even have a tub if it’s got a shower door on it.
I agree. We have one downstairs. Difficult to clean. And the floors are usually quite rounded. During my quarantine, I took showers there. Risked my life more in there than The COVID.
Wall sconces painted and rewired. They aren’t perfect, but I’m really happy with how they came out overall. I have two pairs, one pair for each vanity.
The globes are 6” in diameter, for scale. The cast iron part that mounts on the wall is about 4” wide and 9” tall.
We have a leaking pipe. Rotor-rooter replaced half of the pipe, but the other half is leaking, I guess.
Instead of calling them back, I called another plumber, who told us to call our insurance, and said it could result in a free bathroom remodel??? Since insurance covers access to a burst pipe, and sometimes you can’t access a burst pipe without destroying everything???
However, insurance does not cover the pipe itself. Just everything else. Which is weird.
And now the insurance company, says that there isn’t any water damage. Just a bust pipe. So it doesn’t need to cover access after all?
The plumber kind of wants to fight it out. We’re not so into it. And will probably get the repair/remodel out of pocket.
How can there be no water damage from a leaking pipe?
The leaking water dribbles down the pipe and into a floorless corner of our basement that’s I guess exposed foundation. I’m not really even sure.
Material wear (ie leaking old pipe) is generally excluded as a covered loss in HO policies. Water damage is covered from sudden explosion/bursting however. Important for you , if a leaking pipe is known about for a significant enough amount of time but no preventative steps are taken, the water damage claim could also be denied (pretty rare from what I’ve seen…but plausible). You also should consider if the cost to fix the pipe is less than your deductible.
This makes me think…
It’d be more fun to take a bath with a SO
Returning to the thread now. Thank you
Wait…
Tick checks are also more fun with a SO
Now let’s get back to the thread
Jayyysus! White, of course! Matches windows both top and bottom.
Like, when you want to make sure the the carpet matches the drapes.
I concur with white, given the choices. The other thing I would consider would be something in the brownish red color family that matches up with the red of the brick.
Ooh, I hadn’t thought about that! Not sure it would go with the blue and the white. Those colors never seem to fit together…
