It seemed like we were in the master bathroom deconstruction phase forever, but we have finally started putting things back together. It is amazing how much work goes into this kind of thing and it always takes longer than expected. Luckily, Jared is a really good general contractor that does excellent work. And so it is very rewarding to see things come back together.
Here's a shot of the master bedroom closet; we ended up taking a little bit of the closet to enlarge our shower. Now that the closet was ripped out, Kristina can't wait to make it a HIGHLY efficient closet. If it is organization, Kristina is the person for the job.
The insulation we are using is made out of actual blue jeans -- hence the blue color. It is supposed to have super acoustic absorption and it is much easier to work with than the standard insulation. Since that wall has the hallway on the other side of it, we wanted to minimize any noise as much as possible.
This is an up close shot of it. Jared said that it was super easy to work with as well.
Now on top of the insulation, we added mass loaded vinyl. Mass loaded vinyl is supposed to add sound absorption as well which is why we put it in there. The drywall goes on top of this, and of course we used 5/8" thick dry wall too. Hopefully we will keep everything nice and quiet.
This is one of the outer walls (hence the window). There is an added electrical box to the right of the window. This box is going to house the switch for our heated towel rack. We didn't use any of the "blue jean" insulation here since it was an outer wall. Plus, the insulation that was there was in great shape, so we just put it back in place.
More added electrical, this first picture is just an extra outlet. For some reason the bathroom previously only had 1 outlet in the entire thing. Jared had an opportunity to add one, so he did.
This is where the heated towel rack is going to be located/installed/ It will plug into this electrical box. Luckily, we didn't have to add any circuit breakers, we reused the one that had been allotted for the overhead fan.
This was the previous overhead fan and it was the LOUDEST FAN on the face of the earth. It also had heat in it, so we could add as much as we wanted to the circuit we re-used. That sucker was plumbed for some current!
This blue electrical box is destined to be the light switch for the water closet. It is tough to tell in this picture, but we removed two inner walls in the bathroom and shifted them a bit.
Since the fan was removed and walls were removed, we removed a good portion of the ceiling drywall for a few weeks. It made things cold, but it allowed Jared easier access to run electrical lines and get everything laid out just like he wanted. The newly installed drywall shows you just how much new drywall was installed.
This is the shower drain before it was installed; it eventually goes on that black drain pipe.
Insulation was added here as well. Again, we used the "blue jean" insulation to keep the sound from travelling to the bottom floor. And there are a few more shots of all of the new insulation in the floor.
Finally new subfloor was installed and we were ready for the plumber to arrive for his second visit.
