FULL Bathroom Remodel Under $2,500 - Start to Finish
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That's a heck of a prep for the sub floor. They were looking out for the next guy with that felt paper.
Yes, so I had to return the favor under the tub 😀
@@Fixthisbuildthatloved this video, I think plenty of people have a normal sized bathroom like this and this turned out awesome for a basic bathroom Reno.
Popcorn ready for the Sharkbite comments 😂 Great video! The demo was very satisfying.
I was scrolling down to see them myself. Mind sharing your popcorn?
@@dgoddard 🍿 haha
Yeeep. Came down here to look for the sharkbite comments. hahahahha
@@sarinhighwind 🍿
I had a drip-leak behind a built-in cab at my office and was busy, so hired a plumber. The leak of course was in a few inch space between 2 studs and vents. No access to sweat. Luckily I knew the copper was the end of the line, to a former sink location. He cut before the leak and put a 1/2" Sharkbite cap. Probably 5 years ago. I now keep 1/2" and 3/4" Sharkbite caps at work and home. But have never used Sharkbite myself.
As they say “projects have puppies’ 😊 I appreciate that you left in the challenges
Telling on my spouse - as a teen he made built-ins / carpeting for his sweet van … he used a nailgun through the metal, got out and the van was now a porcupine 😂
Done some bathroom remodels in my day and after 20y in our home, looking to circle back to two. This was the motivator I needed!
Get it!
I owned an old home with steel water pipes. I knew I wanted to replace them at some time and this was years ago when copper pipe was what would be used for a replacement. My wife was in a wedding and had to be dropped off at 9 in the morning and I didn't have to show up until 3 in the afternoon. There was a spigot on the side of the house with the handle broken off that I could only turn on with a Vice Grip. I decided it would be a quick and easy project to replace the spigot. I just had to put out a few nails, spin the spigot off and put the new one on. Super easy.
I turned off the water, went outside, replaced the spigot as planned, came back inside and turned the water back on. Water was spraying out at the tee where the pipe for the spigot connected. The torque I had put on the spigot had caused the pipe to crack. It was about 4 feet of pipe and I thought I could again easily replace it. Man was I dumb! Everytime I replaced a water pipe, another one cracked. I went to the hardware store, bought a bunch of fittings and copper pipe and had replaced most of the cold water pipes in the house with no leaks. I finished about 2:30, jumped in the shower and got to the church right when the ceremony started. I spent the next two days cleaning up my mess and getting everything back to normal. Some of the water pipes I ran that day looked like some sort of modern art. At the time I was just trying to get the water back on.
I don't have the skill or knowledge to do most of what you did in this video but I want you to know it was quite the experience watching it...👏👏👏👏
wow - how often do YT'ers sync their drill drivers with the music? masterpiece!
“Sorry level you gotta take one for the team” 😂 most tools have more than one use in a pinch 👍
You make me want to try things I’d never want to try! Thank you for your humor and for admissions of mistakes. Best DIY content ever!
52+ mins. of cinematic greatness. Way to pull through Brad!! I'm happy to be back to catching some videos Bud. Blessings my friend, Dirty Jersey out!!
You the man, Mike!
Brad, I just DIY installed this exact same tub and shower combo about two months ago. It wasn’t quite as straightforward as the instructions make it seem. Made many of the same mistakes you did. Setting the tub in mortar was so stressful! Unfortunately my walls weren’t nearly as square as yours, so a whole lot of shimming was required. I probably had the shower walls in and out 6 times before it was level and plumb. I did end up going with a screw in connection for the tub stub out to avoid the issue you had with sliding the wall panel in over the plumbing. I’m happy to report that it’s worked great so far though and the process was probably still way easier than a tile install would have been. Nice work!
Good to hear! They should definitely state "screw in stub outs only" on the instructions somewhere. But my little fix worked nicely
"I'm not proud of what happened here today, but it had to happen." Hahahaha. Ahh, Brad, we've all been there, friend. Glad you persevered!
From personal experience, there are special tools to remove stuck drain plugs (he used one for the reinstall around 24:20). Even for 1-time use their worth it. Also, for replacements, both diameter and thread pitch can vary especially in older tubs so buying a replacement online isn't guaranteed to work.
Good call on the drain plug tools, they are a lifesaver!
Bought a house and like you I decided the walk in shower had to go. I wanted to put in a tub and shower. The surround was glued, screwed and otherwise attached to the wall. It turned into a thing and we ended up having to shower at the YMCA for 2 weeks.
Awesome 😎 remodel Brad. Enjoy watching your videos. Keep up the good work.
I like the way you cut the audio of the screw gun to match the neat of your music! 😊 very nice touch.
Great video once again! You're math "ain't" mathing at 43:56 😛
Looks really great. Great job also.
Looking to do something similar to my house, but I also am looking to expand the shower stall into part of a closet. My challenge is my house was built in 1945. The bathroom WAS remodeled by the last owner, but they were into aesthetics a lot more than clear functionality so a lot of 'cringey' situations. For one, it is a pier and beam foundation, and the previous shower floor had rotted out, so they built a funky pedestal under the shower floor that is NOT attached to the floor joists! They also left the iron drain pipe in the walls and then transitioned it to DWV PVC, and yes, 'transitioned' is an imperfect description.
AND yes, drywall is LOTS of 'fun' for me as well. PEX RULES!!! Thanks for the video, Sir!
I'm closing on a house in a couple weeks and will be undergoing this exact same process! I was thinking I'd the walls before the floor though so i can be a messy painter 😂
Yes, it would avoid the step of covering the floors (which I did cause I'm messy too)
Just found your channel and love it. Great job on the bathroom
26:57 Every DIYer in history lmao 😂
Even with all of those mishaps, that bathroom remodel turned out looking terrific Brad! Well done! 👍👍👏👏🔨🔨
I got to the same point (tub installed with no surround yet) and dropped a hammer…steel tub with porcelain coating…massive chip. Full day setback and several hundred dollars!
Oof, That hurts
I embarked on a basic bathroom update with the intention of just replacing the bath, toilet and hand basin which were old and damaged. The hand basin was mounted on a pillar as is common in the UK and the bath was a steel one that stands on metal legs. When we pulled the panel off the front of the bath we discovered a 50 amp cable for a power shower was threaded through holes in the legs. The holes were just stamped in the metal and had razor sharp burrs! Yikes!!! So then we started pulling out the hand basin. The basin was an easy disconnect, but the support pillar seemed glued to the floor. after some pushing and pulling it finally came free with about 6" of flooring attached all round. This is when we discovered the floor was rotten! Everybody OUT NOW! So my quick revamp turned into a full strip out, back to the studs and floor joists and a complete rebuild. That house was like that throughout. Everything we touched turned into a redo to get rid of all the previous bodged work.
very nice on the final look, inspires me more to finally tackle our master bath...
thanks, Keith! Good luck on your remodel
When we redid our bathroom in our old house we ran into the tile being built around the vanity too lol.
It's pretty standard to be honest. You see it anywhere there is tile really. Only in really old bathrooms that had pedestal sinks would you not see it.
Love the video! I feel your pain with drywall.
Nice drill rhythm 😂
Nice work Brad. That was a struggle with the tub though. I'm from the UK but live in Canada now. Can't believe North American tubs. Take a look at the UK version. Removable side panel, adjustable legs. Fit the tub, connect plumbing and check for leaks, then fit the side panel. Trap is accessible for cleaning. Lucky you had access under the house otherwise connecting the waste would have been even more of a nightmare.
Some brands of shark bite fittings will also cause the flow issues you mentioned. Also the tub surround should have used pan head screws. Finally use the bagged drywall mix for filling the large gaps around the tune surround, it dries harder and doesn’t shrink as much as the premix buckets
I love how the toilet paper dispenser with roll still attached came off. Anyone seeing that would chuckle, because it's not that common to see those get yeeted all in one piece. 😂
Great job!!!!!
I feel a lot more confident now, to stop stalling on my master bath challenge. Thanks!
Great Job
Diy mistake, built my house without closets!
I bet you were not married at the time. A woman would never forget closets. Lol
I need my bathroom remodeled. I believe I can do everything except setting and hooking up the tub. Did I miss the part where you connected the tub drain to the plumbing in the crawl space? Great video! Thank you for sharing!
6:45 YOU LUCKY DOG, YOU!
I love it..
"... he's still mathing to this day..." 🤣😅😂🤣😅
Repeated vid, but still good!
was that a sharkbite you installed for tub filler ? not to be used in concealed locations.
Looks great. I just use my orbital sander with a vacuum attachment and some Gator PowerNet or 3M Cubitron mesh sanding discs.
Great, now the shower valve is 35 1/4” off the new subfloor. Gotta redo everything from scratch. Stay tuned for the next video!
Brad is the first person to properly install the walls of a tub surround.
Most of Americans homes have broken, crooked, cracked tan surrounds.
You can sand the dry wall compound the next day, with a damp sponge.
Are those the Malecki shop shades?!
Start to Finish, what timeframe did the demo take, and through the final re-install?
Well we had a 2 month break during the remodel as we worked on.....the new shop! So very hard for me to judge total time honestly. But if I did it straight through probably a week to 10 days.
There is no bad decisions, just subtle choices
I love the pocket hole screws for the first piece of blocking... And the 2nd piece of blocking was just drilled and screwed the old school way. The pocket screws look amazing but might be a bit of over engineering 😂
The first mistake people make is trying to do things halfway. Just rip it down to the studs and subfloor and start fresh. Sounds harder but it's much easier and gets much better results in the long run. You won't ever be doing it again if you do it right the first time. And there won't be any regrets about "I should have done this or replaced that while I was in there".
You're absolutely right. It's a ton of work, but so worth it
Buen trabajo me encanto ! Creí q ibas a cambiar las tuberías de debajo aquí en españa y creo q otros países está prohibida esa clase de tubería hay q poner PVC ! Que miedo vi esa cáscara de culebra y eso q ibas a cojer en las trampas q eran no vi bien ? Un saludo todo muy bonito haces un gran trabajo limpio ! ❤
This exactly what needs to happen at my dad’s house.
Dude, instead try wet sanding - just a wet rag is all you need and it's dust free.
drywall before flooring... and a wet sponge works substantially better than a sanding block on mud
At the 6:02 mark in the video: NO! Rip it all out to the studs. I don't know what you're going to try to save because I haven't yet finished the video, but as a remodeler of many houses, always rip it all out to the bare bones. Fix bows, use green board around water sources such as toilet, shower, vanity. Put it back into a style that you (or your Boss, the wife, wants Happy wife, happy life) Trust me. I hope you've done this... Now back to the video.
Is the wall that you have the plumbing against an exterior wall? Just asking cause of the insulation that is in the wall. Also if it is an exterior wall based on code the lines should have a foam sleeve around them. Just saying cause thats how we have to do it here in Texas.
nope, just the back wall is exterior. That's why it's the only one with vapor barrier
you can get a crimping tool which is much smaller than yours, a professional plumber would have one, I have also rented one from Home Depot when working under a kitchen sink with tight clearances.
have had nothing but trouble with the shark bite stuff. person who owned house before us used them and we have had multiple leaks from them..
As I plumber I run into that joist problem a lot during remodeling. Especially when they want to move their toilets.
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Did the floor crack because of that mesh underneath?
No, the floor cracked because of the deflection in the subfloor. The mesh is the old school way of trying to isolate that movement. These days you use a membrane sheet instead of
@ Thanks for the clarification
Mortar is not an ideal substrate under the tub. Over time, the tub will flex and loosen the mortar so that you get a crunchy sound when stepping on the tub. Expanding spray foam works better; although, a tub with an apron can make it difficult to install. The tub needs to be full of water; otherwise the foam will lift the tub off of the floor.
After seeing your bathtub mishap, isn’t it funny how quickly we can figure out resolutions to issues when we have no time to spare, but planning takes forever.
How much additional are all the tools required? Would you think it doubles the cost?
I believe the cost assumes you have the tools (or most of them) as a DIYer.
I did a dedicated video on the plumbing which shows tool costs for that. But yes, I'd say a "well stocked" toolkit would out you close to 2k. But you could get by with probably half that
But what were the hidden costs? I noticed several tools that I would have to buy to tackle this myself. But the big thing is how many working hours and the total duration? And the silly one, how many trips to the hardware store? I mean, small projects demand at least 3. :)
You should have prefilled under the shower drywall bead. It will flex and crack over time. Otherwise, great job! 👏
I inherited my parents house in 2021. My dad redid the bathroom, adding a walk-in shower surround in 2012. I love the shower, its big and easy to get in and clean... its the walls that have got to go. He used that fake tile board on the walls, floor to ceiling. It is not a "bad" color or design, but it is outdated. To make matters worse our dog over the years of jumping up into the window has scratched the face off the boards under the window exposing the Masonite core. I know it is glued on with construction adhesive and I so badly want to rip it all out, but the question becomes do I really want to fix the drywall underneath? For me this would be a couple month ordeal to fix as I just don't have the time to do it all in a weekend. I was quoted $4,000 to remove the panels and fix the drywall. I don't have the money, so for now, I will live with it.
only used those sanders when it was a wall that had a skim coat over the entire wall...
yes, it would be better in that situation for sure
Brilliant how an american builds a caravan shower cubicle in their house🤣
Never stand drywall up in residential no matter how good you finish it your eye will always see the joint
great tip, wish I'd done that
Honest question...why didnt you use a vapor barrier on the ceiling and other walls?
that back wall is the only exterior wall
Bi-Master 😂
buy or rent a rotary hammer drill and a chisel bit. These tiles would have been off the wall in 5 minutes
Plumber here...the mortar bed tubs are the worst....there are some types that dont require mortar...i like those types way easier to install...
yeah, never doing that again.
That critter is more than likely a ground hog. Switch the bait to cantaloupe rinds and they will not be able to resist!
Sharkbite behind a wall is a hard no for me.
How did this go from here is the painting of the bathroom an 2 sec later he is a completed bathroom
should get a TDAP every 10 years although remember tetanus is found in dirt not rust. Its just that rust is associated with nails that have been in the ground.
Although I do like what your doing. I wouldn’t use shark bites in a wall without easy access to it later
Did you get a permit for the remodel first? Asking for a friend "Mike Holmes"
i've never understood the concept of crawl space in American homes..
seems like a painful, torturous way of doing things
You've seen the bills for slab style homes with plumbing in the ground where they have to dig tunnels under the homes right? And the massive safety issues involved in that. People die from cave in's on those every year.
Crawl space allows us to keep moisture out of the floor and service the stuff under the houses.
Next video will have ghost rat's to go with the ghost dear.
That is one inconvenient water shut-off.
The snake will take care of the rodents.
OMG that wallpaper behind the upper cabinet was hideous!! 😛
Trying to cut costs, but using Shark Bites?
you should consider the snake too, for pest control, and look for it's nest too. snake are far more dangerous than any rat.
Snake is probably there for the rats. No rats and often they move along. Also many snakes are helpful for pets control
@@EthFor3295 that is helping my snake phobia. and also rats see humans has a threat, snakes don't.
Plastic floors are plastic floors no matter the name.
Brad…there is NO SUCH THING as a small or easy project. At the end did you think “I should have paid the estimated $10k for a contractor! 😂
My mind definitely thought that, but my wallet was happy I didn't
DIY mistake, bought paint without the approval of the city and rejected.
A beige bathtub never looks good
Sorry to say. That tub spout is all kinds of wrong. Sharkbite makes a sharkbite to drop ear which would have allowed you to get that surround panel in place and also to properly secure the spout to the blocking. That plastic pipe hanger is not how to secure that.
That is how it's sold from Sharkbite. The pipe hanger comes in the bag with the stubout
Don't bary a shark bite in the wall
A lot of things went wrong, due to the lack of tinking like a pro. A good bodgejob and a medium result. You can build a bathroom on a budget, but use the right materials in the right way.