So I finish my bathroom remodel today...

I got the vanity in and plumbed, toilet set and hooked up and the shower fixture/cartridge installed. YAY!

All tested good with no leaks, however..I turn on the shower and get no hot water. Hmmm...I know we turned on both valves. I check the shut-offs on the valve body, yup both on. WTF?

As it ends up, when they plumbed the shower when the house was built in 1980, they flipped the hot and cold. I checked the old plumbing in the dumpster and sure enough, the cartridge was flipped to have the hot/cold work right.

So I flip the new cartridge and what do you know? It works as designed!

This is a small downstairs 3/4 bathroom with an ugly fiberglass insert, rusted sliding door, the WORST caulking job in the history of man and lanolium that was not glued down. When we bought this in 2015, this was on our remodel list after new windows, deck resurfacing and landscaping.

Before pictures, we had already replaced the vanity with a cheap one, and the toilet. There was no insulation or furring behind the insert and the plumbing was not attached to any blocking, making it "flexible".



Here is the result after a few weeks of work and an upgraded vanity: :

Looks very nice. I'm in the middle of our bath remodel, so I can appreciate the work you put into the project.

Speaking of remodels, what should one expect to pay for a complete gut job with new sub floors and adding a tub/shower combo what use to be a large walk in shower? I was quoted 27k + materials. Makes me want to take it on but we have a full house with 3 kids over age of 17 and I’m not sure if I could handle sharing 1 bathroom while I do it in my ‘spare time’

Well, you can see the size of mine. I spent about $2400 but my tiling labor was free (daughter's SO is a tile layer on layoff). I figure the labor for that is worth about $2000 which puts me at about $4400 all in. I caught the tile on sale, as well as many of the other supplies, and then leveraged the 11% that Menards and HD offer. I got over $200 in rebates back.

Looks really nice.