Laundry room
UncleMac
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In trying to plan out my next steps for the renovation, I decided to start with the drywall in the laundry room. I'd like to say there's a stunningly clever reason but no, not really... When the guys brought the drywall, I had them lean it against the wall in the rec room... so I figured using up some of the drywall in the laundry room would reduce the size of the pile in the rec room...
My intention is to put drywall all the way up the walls but install a dropped ceiling in the laundry room, mainly because the electrical breaker box is in the laundry room... plus when I reworked the plumbing, I put in manifolds with shut-off valves up high. Rather than having to make access doors or find some other way to leave them available behind drywall, having dropped ceiling means they're accessible by moving a panel. Easy peasy.
A pile of drywall... and the first wall completed... I completed a second wall before supper but I didn't get a pic yet.
My intention is to put drywall all the way up the walls but install a dropped ceiling in the laundry room, mainly because the electrical breaker box is in the laundry room... plus when I reworked the plumbing, I put in manifolds with shut-off valves up high. Rather than having to make access doors or find some other way to leave them available behind drywall, having dropped ceiling means they're accessible by moving a panel. Easy peasy.
A pile of drywall... and the first wall completed... I completed a second wall before supper but I didn't get a pic yet.
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Working my way around the room to the hot water tank...I bought a tool for cutting drywall against fixed things like around the window, outlets and electrical panel... It throws dust like crazy but it does a good accurate job...
The outlets around the laundry outlet is plastic and I suspect the drywall cutting tool would eat it's way thru so I'm doing those the old fashioned way with a drywall saw.
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I put the laundry room back together after finishing hanging the drywall on that back wall. I decided to delay doing the hot water tank and finishing that wall behind it until I'm ready to start doing the mud & taping for the seams.
That means I need to start working in the rec room... which means breaking out a new toy for lifting drywall to ceilings...
One 12' x 4' sheet done... only eight more... plus trimming around the edges...
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Back to the laundry room... I started mudding the drywall yesterday... It went fairly well and quickly since it's walls only and no ceiling... I will be doing dropped ceiling grid & tile once the walls are painted.
The mud was still soft in the corners when I started today so I decided to tackle the last piece of drywall behind the hot water tank... If you think working behind the tank is awkward, beside it is even tighter... and worse...
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In the corner behind & beside the tank, there is a drain which is the end point for the washing machine & sink drain... When I did the wall behind, I cut a slot to go around the drain. I'm not saying I can be a bit OCD but leaving the open gap was bothering me... so I cut a piece of drywall to fit and threw a screw into it...
If you're wondering how I'm reaching to fit the screws in this tight space, here's a picture of my driver with the 16" extension on it as I was about to screw that little patch of drywall in place... lol
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Wow. Tight spot 😳0
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DogloverTerri wrote: »Wow. Tight spot 😳
Yep... To put tiles under the hot water tank, I must drain it and move it out of the way briefly. I was going to leave that corner and do the drywall at the same time... but then I got thinking about how long that would add to having the water shut off for the house... so I decided to drywall as much as I can before moving it.0 -
I mudded up the final corners and did a second coat everywhere else.
Slowly coming together...
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The gate is to prevent the beagle from raiding the cat's kibble... or the kitty litter box... as Blue's appetite has no bounds. I was taking a pic of the doorway mud and then suddenly...
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You really do such a good job 👍1
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Thank you. I'm very self-critical so it's easy for me to focus on the flaws and places where I could improve...0
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Looks like you're doing a great job to me. I wish my husband was more of a perfectionist....LOL1
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Two coats of primer done!!
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Looks AWESOME 🤩0
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Remember the light blue accent wall in the bathroom? That's going to be the colour for the walls.DogloverTerri wrote: »Looks AWESOME 🤩0 -
Whups! Pam just told me that she's decided to use the blue as an accent wall so three of the walls will be almond butter... same colour as the rec room...
Remember the light blue accent wall in the bathroom? That's going to be the colour for the walls.DogloverTerri wrote: »Looks AWESOME 🤩0 -
Sounds like a good color scheme and looks like a job well done!0
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I like the almond butter white with blue accent wall combo... same as in the bathroom....
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Laundry set back in place... both my wife and I ran a couple of loads. Fresh laundry... hurray!!
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Laundry sink installed... Initially I was going to mount it sideways (since there was space to do so... but Pam thought it looked crowded that way. The roll of paper towels is holding pressure against the wall until the caulking sets.
This did mean, however, my supply and drains weren't ideally situated. I made it work but it was tight!!
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The anode is an odd size, just over an inch... 1-1/16" to be precise... so I had to buy a specialized socket. I have a long socket handle (called a breaker bar for a reason) so I knew either the anode would wind out or the head would strip. Replacing the anode would extend the life of the hot water tank but since I couldn't get it out, no such luck. The hot water tank continues to work so I'll leave it in place until either it fails or I sell the place.
After stripping the head of the anode (grrrrr), I moved the tank out of the way and testfit the membrane around the drain etc. Draining the tank and everything meant shutting off the water supply to the house so I had to keep going until I could put the tank back in place and replumbed it before I could turn the water back on so we had toilets etc.
Then I redid the plumbing with the new flex lines, mixed up mortar and stuck down the membrane, then put the hot water tank onto two bricks with a piece of plywood to spread/balance the load. This way, I'm hoping to tile under the tank.
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Dry fitting done... Basically dry fitting involves placing the tiles where they're going to end up being mortared... including cutting around corners, drains etc... For example, that floor drain below the laundry sink ended up being on the corner of three separate tiles. While that might sound like a nuisance (and it is a bit), that's better than having it in the centre of a tile since cutting out the middle is trickier than cutting corners, so to speak...
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So far, so good... I should be able to finish up the tiling tomorrow. Then I'll cut tiles to make edging.
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I emptied the hot water tank again and slid it aside so I could tile underneath and behind it...
And as the luck of such things goes, I ran out of mortar with only a few tiles left...
Done!! I'll leave it overnight to set. Tomorrow morning, I will slide the hot water tank back into place and refill it. Then I can start cutting tiles to make the edging around the room... same way as I did in the bathroom...
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Well, that was an adventure I'd prefer to never ever repeat... I started my morning off early, thinking it would only take a moment to set the hot water tank back into place and start it refilling etc... Yeah, not so much...
When I took it off the little stand I'd created, the tank shifted hard enough dislodge one of the pipe fittings... naturally, it was the pressurized side so water started spraying everywhere. I had to move the tank to a stable position (so it didn't do more damage) then run to shut off the water main.
I checked the fitting and it seemed intact so I guessed (wrong) it wasn't broken... just slipped... So I put the tank into place, cleaned up most of the water, then pushed the fitting back into place. I turned the water main back on for a second... long enough to hear spraying... then shut it off again.
Such a messy nuisance!! I cleaned up the water... dried myself off... then went to the hardware store and bought a new fitting... two, actually, as I figured the second fitting might also be damaged. I came home, removed the damaged fitting, put the new fitting in and then turned the water main back on... no leaks...
Needless to say, I've been walking around all day, waiting for the sound of water gushing from the second fitting but it seems to be holding. So the next thing to do is install tiles as baseboards around the perimeter of the laundry room and then grout the newly installed tiles.
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Baseboard tiles... Once the install is done, I'll grout the last bunch of tiles, then a seal of silicon along the bottom of the baseboards so any water on the floor stays out of the walls... and ends up going to the floor drain (by the sink).
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Great job 👏👏👏👏0
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I deliberately moved the hot water tank a bit farther off the wall so such tasks would be easier.DogloverTerri wrote: »Great job 👏👏👏👏0 -
Baseboard tiles done... Next up... grout...
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Getting this squared up, leveled etc etc... I think it would be easier with two people; hard to hold pieces up and measure at the same time. Ah well... I got it done...
I figured out a way to mount the laser level up high enough so setting the support wires was easier and precise!
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I'm not happy with how my homemade tiles.. they're a bit too flimsy. I'd hoped that would allow them to settle into the grid but no such luck. So I'm going to have to buy some ceiling tiles. Le sigh...
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