Bathroom build

Now that the bathroom demo is out of the way, the rebuild can start.

Here are my high-tech drawings that were taped to the wall.

Because of the way the cottage was constructed (floor joist framing, then subfloor, then cottage walls), the end boards of the floor joists are actually tucked away under the wall of the cottage. To be able to tack down new 4x8' sheets of plywood for the subfloor, some adjustments needed to be made to have something to nail into.

The floor joists weren't on 16" centres either, so the spacing needed to be correctly slightly...

So.. really, the joist situation was a mess. Working over an uncapped poo hole made it extra fun.

With the joists corrected, the subfloor could go in and the toilet put back in place.

I was very happy when the toilet returned. Very, Very happy. The new subfloor is 3/4" plywood (rather than 1/2" chip board) which will be strong enough to support the shower. It's mold free and it's nice and level.

Once the toilet was in they worked at upgrading and resizing the trapdoor down to the poo hole. It's a composting toilet, and you need to aerate it every so often to keep things working well. That means the captain gets to climb down the poo hole and pull a bar on the holding tank every couple of weekends, hence the need for the trapdoor.

Upon the nice level subfloor a wall was built.

And another wall was attached to this wall to start the framing for the closet.

Because the bathroom now had neither door nor walls, we hung some spiffy vinyl sheets we found in the garden shed to act as a privacy wall.

We (O.K. I actually had exactly nothing to do with this, apart from dreaming up the plans) moved the bathroom doorway closer to the back door of the cottage, and hung a spanky new door in that spot.
Next to that (filling the original door opening and them some) dad build a new linen closet and broom closet. It's plenty wide, is nice and deep and will have doors that are painted to match the pantry cupboard in the hallway. Before we bought the cottage they didn't need a broom closet because they didn't believe in brooms.

Storage = good.

That was as far as the build got before our week at the cottage ran out.

Next steps include framing in the shower enclosure and building a little half wall that will act as one end of the vanity. Once those are in place we can work at installing the counter and sink and preparing the shower for tiling.

Oh, and there will be lots and lots of plumbing.