While ripping out the walls and floor to prep for the shower, I was feeling a bit overwhelmed with not knowing the best way to put the shower together. There is the old fashioned way of building the mud base, using the rubber pan liners, etc.
Then there are the newer methods with preformed, tile-ready pans and water proofing membranes.
We’ve had this rock polisher sitting in the basement for years. My dad and sister used to polish rocks we found on trips 30+ years ago. I was a little scared to open it since it had been sealed up for a couple decades. Inside we found a few rocks my dad must have started and forgotten about.
Carol and V went on a week-long mission trip. Time to break some stuff…
Using a cold steel chisel and hammer, one stone at a time pops free of the grout and thinset. Several of the first stones chipped, making it not looking likely that I would be able to salvage enough for the shower floor but once I got going at it, most came up whole.
This little pantry closet gives its life so that we can have a second shower.
Several of the diagonal floor boards are, split, cracked from knots, or have dry rot. I’m hoping to use some of these aged boards for a step later in this project.
I redid this little bathroom about 7 years back after J had flooded the floor while playing in the sink…
The natural pebble stone floor was something I wanted to try at the time (and was cheap enough since it was a small space and Costco had them).
The plan is to chisel out all these stones so that I can reuse them for the floor of the new shower…
