Afternoon everyone….
Every once in a while I like to share some of my work here with you on Hive. All of the work you see is 100% completed and handmade by me.
This was quite an extensive job to begin with, that had a couple of twist and turns during the process.
Aside from the color of the walls, everything else was picked out by me. The clients chose that, but agreed with what I designed for them. I have done several jobs for this family over the years. This job was there master bathroom.
A little over a year ago I had completely gutted and remodeled their common bathroom on the second floor. There was a ton of black mold inside the walls, ceiling and floorboards, which I abated. These two bathrooms have an adjoining wall. That wall also had black mold, which told me this master bathroom would as well.
The master bathroom has a cathedral ceiling though which the other did not. It also had a skylight. After gutting the entire room and abating the mold, I insulated and hung all new greenboard. The shower was being moved to a different wall and the floor joist had some integrity issues. After addressing these issues I shimmed and leveled the floor.
I did a final clean up getting ready to tile the floor. I noticed a damp spot where the wall meets the floor on the exterior wall. I wadded up some paper towels and pushed them in the crack. I told the homeowner to check it later that evening to see if it was wet.
Well….
We had a crazy rainstorm around 7pm that night, and my phone rings. The homeowner said the paper towels are soaked and there’s water on the floor. I said there’s a leak on something. The next day I had to open up the wall I had just finished to see what it was.
The only piping in that bay was a vent that went to the roof. The plastic vapor barrier I had put up had water on it and the insulation was soaked top to bottom. The vent on the roof was leaking.
If I had done the tile floor without checking on this damp spot it would have been a disaster for the homeowner down the road. The leak would’ve been hidden by the vanity and would’ve done extensive water damage before it showed itself.
A roofer came the next day to replace the vent on the roof. While he was up there he told the homeowner that the skylight was showing signs of cracking and either needed to be replaced or taken out. They opted for removal. Needless to say that was more work for me. I had to frame the entire inside of the skylight, insulate, drywall and finish it.
Here is the bathroom
Solid cherry cabinets with feet and a pedestal cabinet atop the countertop.
The shower area with glass tile niche.
The rest