Bathroom Remodel Day 8 and 9

Making Progress... slowly...





















Terry got the new exhaust fan in... again this took much longer than expected... the old fan was difficult to remove... the new fan was too thick for the wall (it was designed for ceilings)... so we went and bought a new fan... it fit, but the cover plate was too small for the hole... so we left it as is...for now.















I tried my hand at taping sheetrock... it's an old house, so it's okay if it looks a little rustic...
















We finally got our new cast iron tub (Kohler Villager) and it's not turquoise! We found the tub at Home Depot. The local store only had a scratched up one, so they sent us to the south Tacoma store. The one on the floor was missing a large chunk of enamel, so the clerk got one down from the top rack. After passing our inspection we told the clerk (Scott) that we wanted to pay for it and pick it up on Sunday. He had it on the forklift so he said we could go pay for it and he'd put it in the back storeroom. So we paid for it and left. Cast iron is very heavy (330 lbs.), so we arranged for my Dad and my cousin come help us pick it up and load it into the house. We met at the Depot and went to customer service with our receipt. Apparently we were supposed to have "will call" paperwork. The clerk didn't set us up with any paperwork, but we had paid for it. We told the service gal that the guy put it in the back. She called back there and sent someone to hunt for it. Ken found it, but it had a "Paid" slip with someone else's name on it. But it was the tub we had picked out- the one with no scratches. Ken offered to get another one off the top shelf for us. We told him Scott f-ed up and we were going home with that tub and he could put that "paid" slip on the other tub on the top shelf. He was nice and helped us load our tub.

Getting the tub into the house was a bit of a challenge, but with the extra help we got it in and set into the space. After going out to lunch, we proceeded to spent 6 hours trying to figure out how to level the tub when the floor was very uneven and all the walls were uneven. Our floor was so sloped that with the tub level there was an 1 1/4" gap between one corner and the floor. We had to make a call to Terry's Dad in Alabama for help. He suggested we cut down into the hardwood floor to make slots for the feet and the side. Terry and I wrestled with the tub to get it up not just one time to make these slots, but three times because our cuts were slightly off and we had to not only widen slots, but add shims to a couple feet.

Who knew it was so difficult to set in a bath tub? (This is only the start...)
















Rub-a-Dub-Dub-Three guys in the tub