Da Tub, No More

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Well, My parents house was built in 1890 and needed some work recently. The tub was rusting away around the overflow so started leaking onto the first floor ceiling. My parents decided they didnt want a tub anymore as they only take showers...so guess who they summoned from the dead....lol
Spent from 8am til 10pm yesterday and 12pm til 9pm tonight rerouting plumbing and framing. They have a usable shower tonight, I just have a few finish touches to make and done.
They are having my sister and her kids remove the wall paper and clean the walls, then I will prime/seal and paint, also lay a new floor down later. The sink will be changed out to a pedistal sink later too.

Gives them a lot more room to move as well.
 

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That will be safer for your parents as they get older , they'll not have to worry about falling trying to get or out a tub. Will you be putting tile on the walls around the shower?
 
whatdidyousay! said:
That will be safer for your parents as they get older , they'll not have to worry about falling trying to get or out a tub. Will you be putting tile on the walls around the shower?
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I suggested it, dont know if they are, My dad doesnt want tile on the floors so?????
 
sonocativo said:
I suggested it, dont know if they are, My dad doesnt want tile on the floors so?????
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You could put vinyl on the floor , there are so many styles to pick from today and you could get some that looks like a wooden floor.
 
Sono, was that your typical 60 inch alcove where the tub was?
 
Reading your narrative and seeing the pics reminds me SO much of when my aunt (and family etc) renovated the 2nd floor of the Victorian home she had. She updated the bathroom so that it would be easier for my grandparents (they were moving in after 47 years in their own home- couldn't deal with it physically at least for grandmother). Shower was much like the one pictured- I think there was even a 'seat' so she could sit as she had severe osteoporosis of the spine.
And- the best story, or one of the best, came out of how we got rid of the claw footed tub that was in there. That one was badly rusted and nasty looking. Mine, on the third floor was in better shape.

Man I miss that house.

Oh-- Vinyl might work- that is what we used in the above remodeled bathroom as well as the third floor one.
 
DeafDucky said:
Reading your narrative and seeing the pics reminds me SO much of when my aunt (and family etc) renovated the 2nd floor of the Victorian home she had. She updated the bathroom so that it would be easier for my grandparents (they were moving in after 47 years in their own home- couldn't deal with it physically at least for grandmother). Shower was much like the one pictured- I think there was even a 'seat' so she could sit as she had severe osteoporosis of the spine.
And- the best story, or one of the best, came out of how we got rid of the claw footed tub that was in there. That one was badly rusted and nasty looking. Mine, on the third floor was in better shape.

Man I miss that house.

Oh-- Vinyl might work- that is what we used in the above remodeled bathroom as well as the third floor one.
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I had a claw footed tub in my house in California , the guys working on my house where able to get it for free b/c someone was remodeling their house and did not want it anymore. My miss my little saltbox house. It was build in the 1800 too.
 
Tousi said:
Sono, was that your typical 60 inch alcove where the tub was?
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No. Years ago my uncle remodeled the bathroom. Originally in these old homes they took the smallest room, usually a closet and made them into bathrooms (this house still had the outhouse in the garage when my parents bought it) When my uncle knocked out the wall between this bath and the next room, half was used as the bath and the other half was made into a walk in closet for one of the back bedrooms. since he didnt make it wide enough for a tub along the back wall they put it on the side wall so there was barely room to squeeze through on that offset of the wall and aclove he made to house the plumbing.


Now that I moved and installed a 4 foot shower surround on the back wall they have about 25sqft of floor space now opened up. They have a wide vanity sink there too and it restricts access and takes up a lot of room as well, that will be converted to a pedistal sink to free up another 15sqft of floor space as well. I will be installing some towel cabinets by the shower so they have a little storage as they keep their towels in a basket on the floor, this will really open up the bathroom for them. The medicine cabinet is not used do I have a large plate glass mirror I will hang in there as well to really give it an open air feel.



My plan on the shower is, I want to box/aclove the top and add the lights into it. They have 9' ceilings upstairs and 12' ceilings on the first floor. It is opened to the roof trusses above the drop ceiling panels so there is no insulation for heating/cooling. Although the bathroom is very warm in the winter ( thanks to the extreme furnace they have ) it is hard to keep cool in the summer, so I want to possibly drop the ceiling and blow in some insulation to help with that issue besides the entire second level needs blown in insulation as there is no insulation in the crawl space.
 
DeafDucky said:
Reading your narrative and seeing the pics reminds me SO much of when my aunt (and family etc) renovated the 2nd floor of the Victorian home she had. She updated the bathroom so that it would be easier for my grandparents (they were moving in after 47 years in their own home- couldn't deal with it physically at least for grandmother). Shower was much like the one pictured- I think there was even a 'seat' so she could sit as she had severe osteoporosis of the spine.
And- the best story, or one of the best, came out of how we got rid of the claw footed tub that was in there. That one was badly rusted and nasty looking. Mine, on the third floor was in better shape.

Man I miss that house.

Oh-- Vinyl might work- that is what we used in the above remodeled bathroom as well as the third floor one.
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Yes, originally there was a clawfoot tub in there, the floorspace of the original bathroom was 3x5...lol you basically walked in sat, turned wash your hands or hopped in the tub....that was it.
 
LOL that sounds about right for the size of the 2 bathrooms on the 2nd and 3rd floors- long narrow room- toilet, sink and tub all lined up against one wall.
1st floor was a little odd...when she bought the house there was a really odd room attached to the kitchen with a very old toilet in there and the floor was ridiculously slanted. In the room that she eventually made into her bedroom (used to be the 'library' I think) there was a full sized bathroom crammed into what should have been a half bath lol- whoever lived there before here was able to shoehorn a standup shower next to the toilet- talk about cramped!

This house was built in...I've forgotten the exact year now but the mid to late 1800s and is on the historic register in that town.
 
sonocativo said:
No. Years ago my uncle remodeled the bathroom. Originally in these old homes they took the smallest room, usually a closet and made them into bathrooms (this house still had the outhouse in the garage when my parents bought it) When my uncle knocked out the wall between this bath and the next room, half was used as the bath and the other half was made into a walk in closet for one of the back bedrooms. since he didnt make it wide enough for a tub along the back wall they put it on the side wall so there was barely room to squeeze through on that offset of the wall and aclove he made to house the plumbing.


Now that I moved and installed a 4 foot shower surround on the back wall they have about 25sqft of floor space now opened up. They have a wide vanity sink there too and it restricts access and takes up a lot of room as well, that will be converted to a pedistal sink to free up another 15sqft of floor space as well. I will be installing some towel cabinets by the shower so they have a little storage as they keep their towels in a basket on the floor, this will really open up the bathroom for them. The medicine cabinet is not used do I have a large plate glass mirror I will hang in there as well to really give it an open air feel.



My plan on the shower is, I want to box/aclove the top and add the lights into it. They have 9' ceilings upstairs and 12' ceilings on the first floor. It is opened to the roof trusses above the drop ceiling panels so there is no insulation for heating/cooling. Although the bathroom is very warm in the winter ( thanks to the extreme furnace they have ) it is hard to keep cool in the summer, so I want to possibly drop the ceiling and blow in some insulation to help with that issue besides the entire second level needs blown in insulation as there is no insulation in the crawl space.
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My dad did that with the bathroom downstairs, there was small closets in the hallway right next to the bathroom. He had closest wall taken out and had shower put in for our kids to use when we came home from the beach.
 
whatdidyousay! said:
My dad did that with the bathroom downstairs, there was small closets in the hallway right next to the bathroom. He had closest wall taken out and had shower put in for our kids to use when we came home from the beach.
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You talk about reusing a room for shower. My church did something different in the mid-1950's. The old parsonage was torn down and the pastor and his family lived on the second floor of the church educational building while a new parsonage was built where the old one had been. Classrooms got turned into what you usually have in a house. There was already a kitchenette along the hallway and their range and refrigerator were installed on the other side of the hallway. The men's room, with one stall, that was next to the kitchenette became their bathroom with a "kit" type shower installed in the belltower (and removed once the parsonage was completed). A free standing folding screen was used to divide their living quarters for a Sunday School Worship Center and another couple of classrooms. They also had the use of the ladies room which also had just one toilet and lavatory like the men's room on that floor but it was just the other side of the screen.
 
My grandparents moved a three room house from one location to another in town in 1896. It grew as they had 7 kids into two bedrooms, dinning room, kitchen and storage/floor entrance into cellar on the first floor and three semi finished bedrooms upstairs with an entry into an attic area that is high enough to stand up in part of it.

When an inside bathroom was added it was put in that storage area at the far end of the house. Arrangement of the tub, lavatory and toilet was not a problem. But . . . someone not familiar with the house could get lost between the front bedroom and the bathroom. There were the following doors in each room (I talked to a fellow that bought the house from the people that I sold it to and my understanding is that he closed off some of the doors):
Front bedroom doors to:
front porch
living room
back bedroom
Living room doors to:
front porch
front bedroom
stairwell to upstairs followed by dinning room
Back bedroom doors to:
front bedroom
dinning room
Dinning room doors to:
stairwell to upstairs - living room
door to back bedroom
door to back porch
door to kitchen
Kitchen doors to:
dinning room
back porch
storage/ lift up floor to cellar stairs
door to outside (no porch - just steps
Storage room doors:
kitchen
lift up door in floor to cellar
bathroom
Bathroom door to:
storage area (that later got washer & dryer put in
but not right next to each other because of
where bathroom had been divided off)

The two downstairs bedrooms, living room and dinning room you could go in a circle around but needed to keep track of the other doors. A doctor that made a house call to see my mother while her sister, my aunt, was taking care of her during an illness did get back to the dinning room from the bathroom and was puzzled which way to go from there to get back to the front bedroom!
 
Jane B. said:
My grandparents moved a three room house from one location to another in town in 1896. It grew as they had 7 kids into two bedrooms, dinning room, kitchen and storage/floor entrance into cellar on the first floor and three semi finished bedrooms upstairs with an entry into an attic area that is high enough to stand up in part of it.

When an inside bathroom was added it was put in that storage area at the far end of the house. Arrangement of the tub, lavatory and toilet was not a problem. But . . . someone not familiar with the house could get lost between the front bedroom and the bathroom. There were the following doors in each room (I talked to a fellow that bought the house from the people that I sold it to and my understanding is that he closed off some of the doors):
Front bedroom doors to:
front porch
living room
back bedroom
Living room doors to:
front porch
front bedroom
stairwell to upstairs followed by dinning room
Back bedroom doors to:
front bedroom
dinning room
Dinning room doors to:
stairwell to upstairs - living room
door to back bedroom
door to back porch
door to kitchen
Kitchen doors to:
dinning room
back porch
storage/ lift up floor to cellar stairs
door to outside (no porch - just steps
Storage room doors:
kitchen
lift up door in floor to cellar
bathroom
Bathroom door to:
storage area (that later got washer & dryer put in
but not right next to each other because of
where bathroom had been divided off)

The two downstairs bedrooms, living room and dinning room you could go in a circle around but needed to keep track of the other doors. A doctor that made a house call to see my mother while her sister, my aunt, was taking care of her during an illness did get back to the dinning room from the bathroom and was puzzled which way to go from there to get back to the front bedroom!
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That mind me of Winchester house in California , I saw it and it was a trip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dy0TnZ_vpk
 
originally there were 7 rooms on the second floor. My dad and I converted them into 3 beds and a bath, anyways, I went to finish the upper part of the shower with tile board. My dad decided he wants to use tile look paneling on the walls and linolien on the floor. Told my dad Im gonna put a lid on the shower and install a waterproof light in the shower, drop the entire ceiling as well.
 

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sonocativo said:
originally there were 7 rooms on the second floor. My dad and I converted them into 3 beds and a bath, anyways, I went to finish the upper part of the shower with tile board. My dad decided he wants to use tile look paneling on the walls and linolien on the floor. Told my dad Im gonna put a lid on the shower and install a waterproof light in the shower, drop the entire ceiling as well.
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That is good idea about putting a lid on the shower , it help keep the steam
from peeling the paint of the ceiling . My dad had to put panels on the bathroom ceiling b/c he took very hot showers and the paint kept peeling off the ceiling .
 
sonocativo said:
originally there were 7 rooms on the second floor. My dad and I converted them into 3 beds and a bath, anyways, I went to finish the upper part of the shower with tile board. My dad decided he wants to use tile look paneling on the walls and linolien on the floor. Told my dad Im gonna put a lid on the shower and install a waterproof light in the shower, drop the entire ceiling as well.
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It may go up faster but I have yet to see "tile look paneling" that actually looks like a real tile job. A good deal of it seems to be how the "fake" grout lines are handled.
 
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