Renovation continues

We have had quite a bit of difficulty with the floor plan for the bathroom.
We want a shower stall with a

new bathroom wall construction

existing bathroom and toilet location

original all and stud

seating bench in it. It seemed an easy proposition to install a fiberglass shower unit with a seat in it, but the floor plan is preventing us from doing that. The toilet needs to be turned to make enough passage past it to reach the shower. Once the toilet is turned, it must back up a knee wall or it will be floating out  by itself, and when in the shower you would see the raw unfinished back of the toilet. If the toilet is left in place, as seen in the photo below right, the passage past the front of the toilet would be only 18". We feel that that is insufficient for smooth traffic movement in the room. Our feeling is that nothing less than 24" would be acceptable and 30" would be much more desirable. In response to this decision the toilet was turned 90 degrees to the right and the waste line was moved about six inches to the right of its original location. Making these changes creates a passage of approximately 30" in front of the toilet. Moving the toilet makes it impossible to use a premade fiberglass shower unit, so now the shower will have to be built stick by stick, tile by tile. This will make the time frame needed to create the bathroom, much longer. We are not happy about this but sometimes you have no choice but to do the right thing.


As seen in the photo top right, the room construction on the bathroom has progressed. Taking out existing walls exposed original construction techniques and walls. Exposing that old construction alone, is a crap shoot.  You never know what could turn up,and what changes will have to be made before current construction can continue. Fortunately, the demo did not expose any dangerous situations that had to be fixed.

New fiberglass insulation has been installed keeping pace with intended building schedules. The new insulation can be seen as the white wall portion of the photo at right.  The room also had wallboard installed, to separate it from the sleeping chamber.  It looks great, see the photo below. This is the same wall portion seen in the photo at the top of the posting.  Spackle can be seen on the wall, it is to seal the wall board seams.

new bedroom walls that enclose the bathroom.