Month: October 2010

The dam is in place, framing for the corner shelf is in and the walls are going up. The pan will be floated tomorrow. We’re not quite ready for shower gel and a loofa, but we’re getting closer.

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Paul is rebuilding the front shower wall framing and preparing the floor for constructing the shower pan. The wall looks about 1000% more sturdy.

The framing for the dam will be completed tomorrow.

We decided to go with a 16″ wide corner shelf, 40″ AFF. Laurel’s out hunting for curtain options.

Live camera, such as it is, is up. It can be accessed via the main menu bar.

Keep in mind, images are only updated during working hours and it’s a really crappy cam, so the pictures won’t be wonderful. I will say, that old cam did survive the mayhem of that was the kitchen remod.

35 mm shots will be posted as I get time.

Water’s back on, plumber is packing up, nothing seems to be dripping. Time for lunch.

Today, there was tension in places other than the cables running through the pre-stressed concrete floors of Hale Kihei. It’s important to point out that this had nothing to do with the quality of work or the job the plumber was doing; it’s just that I’m a serious worry-wort when it comes to this kind of stuff in the condo. First there was the noise. To remove the tub, it had to be cut into pieces with a Sawz-all and edge grinder and making cuts it a porcelain-coated steel tub was, I think, the noisiest thing I’ve ever heard at Kamaole Sands. Once the tub was gone there was a good half hour of impact racket. The plaster of Paris around the old drain had to be chipped out and some of the concrete at the edge of the opening needed a little “dressing” with a jack hammer.

If the racket wasn’t enough, at one point in time there was considerable doubt about being able to fit a shower P trap in the hole that had been occupied by the old bath drain. In poured concrete structures laced with steel cables, you frequently wind up in situations where you don’t have a lot of options and if we couldn’t make room for the trap, our choices were pretty much limited to installing a new tub or filling the old tub space with a pinball machine and doing away with all bathing facilities in that WC. Neither of those choices seemed appealing.

My third trip around the worry beads came from a five gallon bucket the plumber had used to drain the pipes. At one point in time, it was suspended from the old valve set and I could just see it falling off, tipping over and dumping 3+ gallons of water through the newly-opened hole in the floor that leads to the ceiling of the shower of our neighbors below. Plumber completed his tasks without spilling a drop, the new fixtures are water tight and I need a beer.

Today’s pictures:

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New piping and valve assembly are being put in place. I’ll be happier when this is all done and nothing is leaking.

It was quite a strugle, but the drain in. It took a bit of ‘adjustment’ to the opening in the floor, but it’s done. I find this stuff to be VERY nerve-wracking. Cocktail hour may come early tonight. 😉

Plumber was here shortly after 9:00 and quickly went to the truck for his Saws-all and edge grinder. Lots of noise and sparks! Tub is out and now he’s working on the drain. This is probably more noise than with the spalling repair.

Good news! Plumber will be here at 10:30 tomorrow to take out the tub and do the rough-in plumbing.

Here are some pictures from today.

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As of abut 11:30, the taker-outing was done. Now we wait for the plumber. Seems he’s not calling the tile guy back. Imagine that! Anyway, right now, it’s on the schedule for tomorrow morning.

Time to cover up the boards and tarps the Paul put down so my sleeping space will be a bit more welcoming.

Off to town for some pine, papaya, etc.

p.s. I like the new MSNBC bumpers.