New Bathroom 4: Wall, Tile Work

by philrw
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Drywall is up, sanded, taped, sanded, mudded, sanded, primed, and painted.

Kerdi is up in the shower, Ditra is on the floor.

Shower is about half tiled.

Annie watching from hallway Annie checked in occasionally

painted wall a new wall

looking into bathroom floor to ceiling orange stuff

bathroom floor Ditra

shower walls Kerdi

shower walls, higher more Kerdi

shower, mostly tiled tile! only one “oops”

New Bathroom 3: New Shower Valve Body, Subfloor

by philrw
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Yesterday was a long day. After a trip to Home Depot at 0800, we got to work fixing the plumbing first. By 1900 the new subfloor was finally in. The sillcock was just a bonus because the floor was up. I tried to unscrew it from the outside but ended up twisting apart the copper pipe instead. That’s okay, we didn’t need that one anyway. I cut and capped its supply pipe. The new shower valve body was soldered into place (14 solder joints!) and checked for leaks. Repaired a leaky joint (twice) and now all is dry.
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New Bathroom 1: The Demo

by philrw
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Stuff that isn’t there anymore:

  • mirror

  • baseboard

  • vanity

  • toilet

  • light fixture

  • plastic shower wall coverings

  • some sort of pressboard drywall covering, multiple layers

  • tile on wall

  • unusable drywall (rips, holes, glue, paint, water damage, mold)

bathroom right wall, bottom half down to studs

bathroom left wall, down to studs

wider shot bathroom

bathroom left wall, plumbing

An Open Letter to Larry Page

by philrw
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Dear Larry, Please – stop it! You killed Google Reader. Then you killed Latitude. Then I just found out that you stopped supporting XMPP server-to-server federation back in March. No wonder I couldn’t get external friends to IM with me! I moved off of my own XMPP server to use Google because you supported federation. You complain that nobody is working towards open standards, so you pull your support for it? You’re supposed to be better than the other guy. Set an example, don’t play at their level. Microsoft will quickly pick me up where you so curtly dropped me off.
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