This is good enough to quote as an Osophy:
When most people say they want to be a millionaire, what they really mean is “I want to spend a million dollars,” which is literally the opposite of being a millionaire.
Morgan Housel, Motley Fool
Saving and investing intelligently make you wealthy, not spending. I know—seems obvious—but that’s not how most people act.
The bathroom is essentially complete. Only a few small finishing touches and touch-ups remain.
The floor is now grouted.
All done with setting tiles! Also test fitted the new vanity and installed the faucet.
No edging bullnose yet and lots of high-up-on-the-wall work to do, but some progress…
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 checked in occasionally
a new wall
floor to ceiling orange stuff
Ditra
Kerdi
more Kerdi
tile! only one “oops”
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. Still have to pressure-test the tub spout and shower head joints before putting up the Kerdi board. The tub/shower faucet (and matching sink faucet) hardware is Kohler Mistos in polished chrome.