I do alot of bathrooms and let me tell you this guy is bad ass he really knows everything there is to know ive learned so much new things from him to make me better
yea really -- so rare to see a middle age white man doing hard core old house demo w gnarly asbestos clouds floating around -- and even solo too which is just insane really. i'm used to seeing latinos fresh from the border doing this work
The amount of demo he completed on day 1 (by himself) was crazy. Everyone watches demo videos and thinks "that looks pretty easy. I could do that." Yeah right. He hauled almost 3k lbs of plaster and tile debris out of the house to the truck in one day which would have exhausted most people, not to mention the actual demo work itself. He just keeps going from task to task to task...if it wasn't on video I wouldn't have believed it
Excellent video, love the detail and length. You're one of the few YT contractors willing to admit mistakes, which is the best way to learn. Thank you for your time and sharing your experience. Fantastic work!
4 hour video? FINALLY! I love sitting down and relaxing and not having to get up every 40 minutes to put another video on when TH-cam fails me. Subbed!
we saved a lot of money going tub insert and vinyl flooring. house was from the 50's and had tons of damage to the floor from years of leaks. So having my contractor demo and reinstall took 4 days. We still had original tile in the bathroom from when the house was built in the 50's. Contractor had a hell of a time getting down the to studs and joists! Was told bathrooms sells houses.. we shall see!
I could've used this video two years ago when a slow draining bathroom sink in my 1939 turned into a full gut remodel; got to love galvanized waste pipes. My bathroom was smaller than this but the demo debris far exceeded 2500 lbs due to rock lathe + thick floors. Only the tombstone shower had floated walls while everything else was drywall + plaster over (rock lathe). The original builders notched the joists beneath the shower, laid a lead pan, and then poured quick lime mortar. The thickest the mortar bed ever got was 4 inches. All that work just for the curb to eventually leak...and not be addressed til I got the house. Good work! I envy that vents already existed.
Watched the whole thing in one sitting! 1.5x speed. I was saying "where's the blocking?" when you put the drywall up! Really great to see it start to finish... It turned out amazing. Now motivated to start my own remodel. Thanks for posting this!
I got a big project on my upstairs bathroom since the subfloor needs replacing, and I really would like to do the work myself. Watching this guy take 4 hours of his time to show us what he has done actually inspires to try to remodel it myself. Worst case scenario is I can't continue after demo then I call in the professionals. Thank you, sir! I may consider enrolling in your course!
Removing a lath based walls is definetly unique experience. One should experience at least once/twice in their career. Recently went to estimate two bathrooms, almost the same like this one. When I pointed the tile edge and explained what it means hence additional elbow grease necessary to remove and cost involved, customers looked at me (a couple) as if I am about to steel the last penny out of their pocket. Luckily I got enough experience to read people so I did not even bother with proceeding with more detailed talk about this project. Unfortunate but that is the reality of working as a contractor nowadays. Happy New Year BRT Team. 👊💪👍
You probably dodged dealing with a Karen/Darren customer. More experienced you get in remodeling you learn red flags to avoid getting wrapped up with customers that are gonna be more of a pain to deal with than the actual work. The later years of your career are picking the jobs you want to do. Rather than losing your shirt and dealing with tire kickers.
This video came at the perfect time. I just gutted my 1940's bathroom of the same shape and style and am prepping for the rebuild now. Thank you so much for the full length video :)
You make it look easy. Well done. Here in south Florida, we usually do not have access to plumbing under the bathroom. I remodeled a bathroom and the new tub drain was 3/4" off from the old drain pipe. Ugh!!
This guy is a beast and does everything proper 100 percent 👏 sp good to watch. Your a master come to australia and do my 2 bathrooms pls so many dodgy builders here in the new housing market.
In the UK we have shower wallboard, laminated in 1000's colours & patterns. No grouting, no grout line mould, perfectly flat. Adhesive mounted and you can complete a shower in one day easily. Simple to clean, grear stuff. I never see it on US channels.
That panasonic fan is the best, only problem is its so quiet people thing it isn't working so i have to demonstrate with a smoke test or paper towel lol
Great video. Having done many of these old bathroom remodels myself, I know firsthand how much work they involve and how much debris they generate. Those wire mesh walls are the worst but not to be outmatched by removing a plaster ceiling and having all of that black blown in insulation rain down on you! Then let’s not forget about removing the mud floor. The last one I took out was about 4 inches thick of concrete. You might consider putting a box fan in the window to help exhaust the air born dust/debris.
For sure! This was probably my last one of these though. I literally took it for the content. I've done way too many of these over the decades 😃 Too hard on the body
This video is stellar but there were a few things I noted as I watched: Tub did not look like cast iron. Fitting for toilet did not look like something that would meet plumbing code. De-burr cuts before applying shark bites otherwise they'll fail prematurely.
As to toilet flange waterproofing treatment, the screws that you pinned down on the floor must damage the waterproofing membrane below, although the screws secure the flange unmoved. I suppose you cover the screws (or a whole flange with screws) with silicon (or something) to 100% waterproof the flooding toilet. The flooding water may be leak into floor inside along the screw little space. Otherwise, what about securing a flange with silicone? In Japan or Korea, the flange is fixed in non-wall invasive methods
What I did when I removed my mud bed bathroom walls was to get a 9 inch grinder with a diamond blade and cut vertical lines between each stud bay, then I could pry each section off the studs. A good respirator is required,
Have you ever used Kilz PVA.. you can find it at the big orange box store. A lot of crews in our area use PVA primer to white out ceilings. With that being said, I would use Kilz over Sherwin.. Sherwin leaves a slight grey tint. Kilz turns out bright white which is great for ceilings. But its main purpose is for sealing fresh drywall. So you can use it all over the place. But the mind blowing part of it is the price. For what it does it’s worth the few pennies. Check it out, if you haven’t already. Enjoyed the video, I’m redoing a bathroom right now and I glad you said something about bracing behind the walls.. totally slipped my mind.
31:54 Great job removing the tub. Hate to see those old CI tubs smashed and removed just to be replaced by some modern and inferior quality product. Never realized how they could be removed with relative ease nor have I ever thought about deglazing them. Great work. But my god are those things heavy! You moved it with ease!
@10 minutes. RECOMENDATION: We always use a giant pipe wrench for these types of walls. Once you get behind the wire, you just slip the pipe wrench over the wire tile and all-set, and you can just roll it down it snaps easy and is way less noisy, less flying material etc compared to the hammer and chisel.
I've been following your channel for a short window. I'm amazed at the level you're tearing out. I guess I'm at the next level. What is left behind once the bathroom is finished. How are you addressing the iminent asbestos issues? Is the assumption that wasn't an issue with this job? Maybe one of your other videos has addressed it. Are you billing separately for the removal or calling in another company to support this?
This man doesn’t seem to stop! It’s project after project! And he does it all alone!! I’d be curious to know how much profit you’re making from each job, because you must be swimming in $
They could have removed that closet and nearly doubled the bathroom size. This is exactly what I did in my house, a large closet in a hallway. Fairly useless and gave us so much more room in the bathroom. Another thing I do with my plaster and metal lathe is just cut it down the studs and rip the lathe and plaster all out at once, it comes out in big pieces and is easier to get rid of.
Where are you located? I have the same exact bathtub and tile in my bathroom. An exact match. I’ve seen many black and white tile bathroom but never the exact same.
I see you using La co flux. In the UK this is way too acid and all soldered connections need to be washed with a wet cloth or over time there can be trouble. I use electricians Fluxite. No problems, less acid.
I plan on doing a remodel of our 1931 bathroom that resembles this layout quite a bit. (My heart died a little seeing that vintage tile go bye bye haha) Is there anything against keeping the ceiling and existing lathe and plaster while removing the tub surround area as long as your use a solid system like schluter/guru and/or backer board? I am keeping the original cast iron tub and floor tile as well but updating the plumbing a bit (I'll be hiring the plumbing part out, no DIY there for me!). Is there anyway to better waterproof around the tub if removing that but keeping floor tile?
Just started the video and haven't watched or looked at how it looks when it is done. But I gotta say, damn I love how the bathroom looks from the start. I wouldn't have ever guessed that it was from the 40s or whatever year it is. Looks more of a modern design, but I guess it not.
Does this work get inspected, my house is all the same and the whole subfloor plus sills and studs was all rotten so I’m replacing now but the pipes were all cast and galvi so putting pvc just into the wall and then tying back in the crawl to the old. Do I need permits?? To fix it all?
You're SUPPOSED to get permits. So DIY folks get important things right. Steve, I doubt gets inspections for most things as they are costly and time consuming and a lot of times just a money grab for the county. For what it's worth, his use of the 3x3x2 low-heel inlet for the shower\toilet drain would NOT have passed inspection.
I was told by a tile contractor to start in the middle ( if possible) when demoing those old tiles in thick mortar? I always do it that way ( when I demo old tiles in thick mortar, however does it matter ? He did say you hv a better chance of getting bigger chunks?
@BathroomRemodelingTeacher Had you ever considered just filling in the go board gaps with the sealant, and then going over the seams with schluter or latticrete seam tape?
On a more serious note, those sharkbites so close to the escutcheon make it very difficult to remove the valves. I like to be able to get my removal tool behind the fiting for easy removal.
Use safety glasses and face shield ; when I cut some of the metal wires , it came down towards my face due to the weight of some of the leftover plaster. I was lucky I had safety glasses on. Also noticed tha the plaster wires have memory and can curl up towards your face or body. Use caution when removing this stuff, it’s very dangerous.
wish they had a running clock or an actual time things took.. cuz that tile removal took about 45 seconds on screen but i wonder how long you really swung that hammer to break apart that wall tile?... lol
My biggest problem right now as a licensed remodeler is generating drawings. For kitchens I can just send the customer to the cabinet shop and the cabinet shop has software that renders images that look like real pictures of the proposed kitchen, and they also generate overhead plan views. I just have to indicate electrical and the county will accept it. For bathrooms I cant use this approach. I have to draw an overhead plan view on graph paper and it takes way too long. I used to use software called layout which is part of SketchUp but the cost for the subscription is infuriating. I wish customers didn't come to me until after they had a draftsman create plans but that's just not how it works.
It's actually the reason I stopped doing kitchens. When I first started out I thought I had to do kitchens too 😃 Kitchens and Baths always seemed to be offered by the same contractor. I hated spending so much time of layouts of kitchens...and not even getting the job. Bathrooms are way less work when if comes to layout and bidding. Not that many options with the space. Now tile design and fixtures...thats a whole other issue 😃
do get a deposit before you start demo. do have the customer pay for materials from the supply house. do deposits before each phase. only hold your profit payment, at least you have not lost too much money...
Just a tip, if working on an open floor like this, drop down a scap section of plywood to kneel on. Slipping off one of those exposed joist can give you a nasty injury (and a change in voice pitch)!!!😬👍 Oh and a shoutout to your wife for the camera work!👍
😂. This dude does everything to a high level. Plumbing, electrical, finish, etc. But he still gets silly pointers from DIYers who may have changed a toilet valve once and consider themselves to be in a position to critique him.
@@sparks6666 As a licensed contractor I can tell you the overwhelming majority of the cost is labor. Most contractors do not separate the cost of materials and labor, we just give a cost for the project. Materials are not that expensive so most of the cost, outside of labor, is the cost of fixtures. Fixtures might be 3 grand.
You have probably addressed this in the past, but I thought I would mention it in the comments as an fyi for those unfamiliar with this. Be careful in these older homes when converting copper to pex for any new project. Check to see if the main electrical ground is connected to the copper pipe (check near fuse panel and follow large copper bare wire). If so, the copper plumbing pipes are being used as the electrical ground rod, and that path is to go out through the water main piping. It needs an unbroken path to the main, so putting in pex can break that grounding path. There is a possible way to fix it inside, (before the pex connection), with a large copper jumper-wire and clamps; to continue the grounding path, but it would be best to have an electrician connect a new main ground to a grounding rod outside, which is not that big of a job. Also beware of this same scenario if you plan to put in a water softener yourself, the softener will break that electrical ground path, so the jumper wire and clamps are required to fix this break, as per softener instructions.
I do alot of bathrooms and let me tell you this guy is bad ass he really knows everything there is to know ive learned so much new things from him to make me better
This is one hard working dude.
Amen He is!
yea really -- so rare to see a middle age white man doing hard core old house demo w gnarly asbestos clouds floating around -- and even solo too which is just insane really. i'm used to seeing latinos fresh from the border doing this work
The amount of demo he completed on day 1 (by himself) was crazy. Everyone watches demo videos and thinks "that looks pretty easy. I could do that." Yeah right. He hauled almost 3k lbs of plaster and tile debris out of the house to the truck in one day which would have exhausted most people, not to mention the actual demo work itself. He just keeps going from task to task to task...if it wasn't on video I wouldn't have believed it
Love watching you work! The debris left in the wall triggered my OCD tho 😂. Thank you for all the helpful tips!
If it was my place, I would have just plumbed a shower head through the closet wall and be done with it. That's a TON of work! :D
Excellent video, love the detail and length. You're one of the few YT contractors willing to admit mistakes, which is the best way to learn. Thank you for your time and sharing your experience. Fantastic work!
Only way to learn 😆 fail many many times 👍
4 hour video? FINALLY! I love sitting down and relaxing and not having to get up every 40 minutes to put another video on when TH-cam fails me. Subbed!
wow that bathroom lasted probably just over 80 years!! so increadible and just doing =demo itself is so so so much work!!!!
Love these long format videos. Very nice to see major projects the whole way through
we saved a lot of money going tub insert and vinyl flooring. house was from the 50's and had tons of damage to the floor from years of leaks. So having my contractor demo and reinstall took 4 days. We still had original tile in the bathroom from when the house was built in the 50's. Contractor had a hell of a time getting down the to studs and joists! Was told bathrooms sells houses.. we shall see!
When do you clean the rubbish in the walls
I could've used this video two years ago when a slow draining bathroom sink in my 1939 turned into a full gut remodel; got to love galvanized waste pipes. My bathroom was smaller than this but the demo debris far exceeded 2500 lbs due to rock lathe + thick floors. Only the tombstone shower had floated walls while everything else was drywall + plaster over (rock lathe). The original builders notched the joists beneath the shower, laid a lead pan, and then poured quick lime mortar. The thickest the mortar bed ever got was 4 inches. All that work just for the curb to eventually leak...and not be addressed til I got the house.
Good work! I envy that vents already existed.
i know its probably a pain in the ass to edit but i do love that you add an image of all parts and tools you're using in the moment.
Watched the whole thing in one sitting! 1.5x speed. I was saying "where's the blocking?" when you put the drywall up!
Really great to see it start to finish... It turned out amazing.
Now motivated to start my own remodel. Thanks for posting this!
I got a big project on my upstairs bathroom since the subfloor needs replacing, and I really would like to do the work myself. Watching this guy take 4 hours of his time to show us what he has done actually inspires to try to remodel it myself. Worst case scenario is I can't continue after demo then I call in the professionals. Thank you, sir! I may consider enrolling in your course!
Removing a lath based walls is definetly unique experience. One should experience at least once/twice in their career. Recently went to estimate two bathrooms, almost the same like this one. When I pointed the tile edge and explained what it means hence additional elbow grease necessary to remove and cost involved, customers looked at me (a couple) as if I am about to steel the last penny out of their pocket. Luckily I got enough experience to read people so I did not even bother with proceeding with more detailed talk about this project. Unfortunate but that is the reality of working as a contractor nowadays. Happy New Year BRT Team. 👊💪👍
Very true 😆 happy new year!
You probably dodged dealing with a Karen/Darren customer.
More experienced you get in remodeling you learn red flags to avoid getting wrapped up with customers that are gonna be more of a pain to deal with than the actual work.
The later years of your career are picking the jobs you want to do. Rather than losing your shirt and dealing with tire kickers.
This video came at the perfect time. I just gutted my 1940's bathroom of the same shape and style and am prepping for the rebuild now. Thank you so much for the full length video :)
You make it look easy. Well done. Here in south Florida, we usually do not have access to plumbing under the bathroom. I remodeled a bathroom and the new tub drain was 3/4" off from the old drain pipe. Ugh!!
Excellent. Watched the whole thing. Steve is the best! And Mrs. White also great camera work!
Nice job! I appreciate you sharing the trade. I watched the whole thing and enjoyed it.
Very informative and pleasant to watch, thank you for taking the time to document it all !
absolutely incredible skill with consistent attention to detail! thanks for sharing!
This guy is a beast and does everything proper 100 percent 👏 sp good to watch. Your a master come to australia and do my 2 bathrooms pls so many dodgy builders here in the new housing market.
Fantastic tutorials. Keep them coming. Great craftsmanship as always. Regards from Ireland
In the UK we have shower wallboard, laminated in 1000's colours & patterns. No grouting, no grout line mould, perfectly flat. Adhesive mounted and you can complete a shower in one day easily. Simple to clean, grear stuff. I never see it on US channels.
I know of only one company that sells it in the US. I have no idea why, those acrylic boards are a breeze to work with but quite expensive here
I really enjoy these long remodel vids please keep them coming!
Most informative plumbing videos on the TH-cam platform!!!!
This video is perfect for my winter project, I had to remove exactly the same kind of floor and it was a pin.. Thank you for sharing
That panasonic fan is the best, only problem is its so quiet people thing it isn't working so i have to demonstrate with a smoke test or paper towel lol
Great video. Having done many of these old bathroom remodels myself, I know firsthand how much work they involve and how much debris they generate. Those wire mesh walls are the worst but not to be outmatched by removing a plaster ceiling and having all of that black blown in insulation rain down on you! Then let’s not forget about removing the mud floor. The last one I took out was about 4 inches thick of concrete. You might consider putting a box fan in the window to help exhaust the air born dust/debris.
For sure! This was probably my last one of these though. I literally took it for the content. I've done way too many of these over the decades 😃 Too hard on the body
starting a project soon, your video is my BOOK!!! Thanks
You can keep the drain 1 1/2” in a pinch. Use a bushing. Especially since the shower heads flow about half what that tub valve did!
This video is stellar but there were a few things I noted as I watched:
Tub did not look like cast iron.
Fitting for toilet did not look like something that would meet plumbing code.
De-burr cuts before applying shark bites otherwise they'll fail prematurely.
Did you not see the better version of configuration of fittings? Nor the deburring depth gauge used??
As to toilet flange waterproofing treatment, the screws that you pinned down on the floor must damage the waterproofing membrane below, although the screws secure the flange unmoved.
I suppose you cover the screws (or a whole flange with screws) with silicon (or something) to 100% waterproof the flooding toilet. The flooding water may be leak into floor inside along the screw little space. Otherwise, what about securing a flange with silicone? In Japan or Korea, the flange is fixed in non-wall invasive methods
What I did when I removed my mud bed bathroom walls was to get a 9 inch grinder with a diamond blade and cut vertical lines between each stud bay, then I could pry each section off the studs. A good respirator is required,
Wow you are amazing. Thank you for all the tips and tricks keep them coming.
What model nail gun is that?
In another life I would love to work with you as an apprentice! The work is phenomenal. Great channel!
Thanks 😊
would a corded hammer drill work good on demoing that old stuff?
On the shower drain a small dab of silicone grease on the gasket and threads works well .
Have you ever used Kilz PVA.. you can find it at the big orange box store. A lot of crews in our area use PVA primer to white out ceilings. With that being said, I would use Kilz over Sherwin.. Sherwin leaves a slight grey tint. Kilz turns out bright white which is great for ceilings. But its main purpose is for sealing fresh drywall. So you can use it all over the place. But the mind blowing part of it is the price. For what it does it’s worth the few pennies.
Check it out, if you haven’t already. Enjoyed the video, I’m redoing a bathroom right now and I glad you said something about bracing behind the walls.. totally slipped my mind.
put a fan in the window. or get an air scrubber. you literally have the door open for dust to get into the entire house.
By putting the mud directly on the wood for the shower pan….would it not absorb the water and weaken the wood and indirectly, the mud as well?
31:54 Great job removing the tub. Hate to see those old CI tubs smashed and removed just to be replaced by some modern and inferior quality product. Never realized how they could be removed with relative ease nor have I ever thought about deglazing them. Great work. But my god are those things heavy! You moved it with ease!
@10 minutes.
RECOMENDATION:
We always use a giant pipe wrench for these types of walls.
Once you get behind the wire, you just slip the pipe wrench over the wire tile and all-set, and you can just roll it down it snaps easy and is way less noisy, less flying material etc compared to the hammer and chisel.
I've been following your channel for a short window. I'm amazed at the level you're tearing out. I guess I'm at the next level. What is left behind once the bathroom is finished. How are you addressing the iminent asbestos issues? Is the assumption that wasn't an issue with this job? Maybe one of your other videos has addressed it. Are you billing separately for the removal or calling in another company to support this?
Mind if I ask what filter and Respirator you're using? Looks interesting
Awesome work. Where is this tile from? I like it!
This man doesn’t seem to stop! It’s project after project! And he does it all alone!! I’d be curious to know how much profit you’re making from each job, because you must be swimming in $
They could have removed that closet and nearly doubled the bathroom size. This is exactly what I did in my house, a large closet in a hallway. Fairly useless and gave us so much more room in the bathroom.
Another thing I do with my plaster and metal lathe is just cut it down the studs and rip the lathe and plaster all out at once, it comes out in big pieces and is easier to get rid of.
Where are you located? I have the same exact bathtub and tile in my bathroom. An exact match. I’ve seen many black and white tile bathroom but never the exact same.
I’ve found a large Bosch hammer drill with a chisel bit makes short work of those mud bed walls.
What sealent do you use to cover nails on board?
I see you using La co flux. In the UK this is way too acid and all soldered connections need to be washed with a wet cloth or over time there can be trouble. I use electricians Fluxite. No problems, less acid.
I plan on doing a remodel of our 1931 bathroom that resembles this layout quite a bit. (My heart died a little seeing that vintage tile go bye bye haha) Is there anything against keeping the ceiling and existing lathe and plaster while removing the tub surround area as long as your use a solid system like schluter/guru and/or backer board? I am keeping the original cast iron tub and floor tile as well but updating the plumbing a bit (I'll be hiring the plumbing part out, no DIY there for me!). Is there anyway to better waterproof around the tub if removing that but keeping floor tile?
Just started the video and haven't watched or looked at how it looks when it is done. But I gotta say, damn I love how the bathroom looks from the start. I wouldn't have ever guessed that it was from the 40s or whatever year it is. Looks more of a modern design, but I guess it not.
You sir, are a beast!
On that tub/ shower valve could have used a brass end cap on the tub side.. instead of the pex adapter, pex pipe and then a pex plug.🤔
Why did you fur out the walls?
Does this work get inspected, my house is all the same and the whole subfloor plus sills and studs was all rotten so I’m replacing now but the pipes were all cast and galvi so putting pvc just into the wall and then tying back in the crawl to the old. Do I need permits?? To fix it all?
You're SUPPOSED to get permits. So DIY folks get important things right.
Steve, I doubt gets inspections for most things as they are costly and time consuming and a lot of times just a money grab for the county.
For what it's worth, his use of the 3x3x2 low-heel inlet for the shower\toilet drain would NOT have passed inspection.
I was told by a tile contractor to start in the middle ( if possible) when demoing those old tiles in thick mortar? I always do it that way ( when I demo old tiles in thick mortar, however does it matter ? He did say you hv a better chance of getting bigger chunks?
did you put clear silicone around the toilet?
Great work. Do you vacuum out all of the residual plaster debris from the sill plates and fire breaks before installing the drywall/concrete board?
Sure 😝
I like the shower head. Do you have the link to it? thx.
www.homedepot.com/p/KOHLER-Windet-Showering-Rail-Combo-in-Polished-Chrome-K-R27971-G-CP/316451246?
Ive read that some people have problems with thinset adhering to the go board sealant. Any experience with this?
Never had a problem with it. Always work thinset into substrate before troweling
@BathroomRemodelingTeacher Had you ever considered just filling in the go board gaps with the sealant, and then going over the seams with schluter or latticrete seam tape?
Do you need to use any gobard sealer between the top goboard piece and the ceiling drywall joint? Great video!
I don’t think so. Especially it not being a steam shower. Go board has no specs on that either
@BathroomRemodelingTeacher thanks!
What tile cutter do you use?
Montolit 👍
On a more serious note, those sharkbites so close to the escutcheon make it very difficult to remove the valves. I like to be able to get my removal tool behind the fiting for easy removal.
Thats why I buy the tongs remover tool amzn.to/4iXlhY0
How many a leaking or blocked pipe project has ended..... total gut.😢
Compact Angle Head Crimp Tool is handy
Your sill has like a 1 1/2 inch reveal while the top and sides have probly 1/2 inch... you said try to get them all to be close. 😂😂
the way you are using the 2 into 3 fitting isnt allowed by code in PA
Use safety glasses and face shield ; when I cut some of the metal wires , it came down towards my face due to the weight of some of the leftover plaster.
I was lucky I had safety glasses on.
Also noticed tha the plaster wires have memory and can curl up towards your face or body. Use caution when removing this stuff, it’s very dangerous.
Level is desired flat is required is what I say when it comes to a tile floor
Any concerns about asbestos when remodeling these old bathrooms?
Always!!
wish they had a running clock or an actual time things took.. cuz that tile removal took about 45 seconds on screen but i wonder how long you really swung that hammer to break apart that wall tile?... lol
And I gotta know how you convinced your wife to stand there holding a camera for so long…
Wow finally going off set
Way harder to do 😂
My biggest problem right now as a licensed remodeler is generating drawings. For kitchens I can just send the customer to the cabinet shop and the cabinet shop has software that renders images that look like real pictures of the proposed kitchen, and they also generate overhead plan views. I just have to indicate electrical and the county will accept it. For bathrooms I cant use this approach. I have to draw an overhead plan view on graph paper and it takes way too long. I used to use software called layout which is part of SketchUp but the cost for the subscription is infuriating. I wish customers didn't come to me until after they had a draftsman create plans but that's just not how it works.
It's actually the reason I stopped doing kitchens. When I first started out I thought I had to do kitchens too 😃 Kitchens and Baths always seemed to be offered by the same contractor. I hated spending so much time of layouts of kitchens...and not even getting the job. Bathrooms are way less work when if comes to layout and bidding. Not that many options with the space. Now tile design and fixtures...thats a whole other issue 😃
i’m a big fan of copper piping systems i’m not a big fan of pax piping and i seen you doing mostly pax piping
Won’t you clean out the debris from wall and remodel?
do get a deposit before you start demo. do have the customer pay for materials from the supply house. do deposits before each phase. only hold your profit payment, at least you have not lost too much money...
1:35:58......why the shark bite?😮
Why not?
I had to pause the video and get some more beer! 😂
😂 on the word “okay” you have to drink
Just a tip, if working on an open floor like this, drop down a scap section of plywood to kneel on. Slipping off one of those exposed joist can give you a nasty injury (and a change in voice pitch)!!!😬👍
Oh and a shoutout to your wife for the camera work!👍
😂. This dude does everything to a high level. Plumbing, electrical, finish, etc. But he still gets silly pointers from DIYers who may have changed a toilet valve once and consider themselves to be in a position to critique him.
@ 😘
So what was the cost of this one?
@@vids595 $18,250 in 2022. So about $23k now 👍
@BathroomRemodelingTeacher that's a deal.
@@BathroomRemodelingTeacher How much of this would you say is in labor cost?
@@sparks6666 As a licensed contractor I can tell you the overwhelming majority of the cost is labor. Most contractors do not separate the cost of materials and labor, we just give a cost for the project. Materials are not that expensive so most of the cost, outside of labor, is the cost of fixtures. Fixtures might be 3 grand.
I’ve seen your last 2 videos and you never show how you installed your pot lights in the shower area
does a home have to have a bath tub for value purposes
Call a real estate agent 👍
Does the camera guy ever give you a hand lol
I’ve got two bathrooms exactly like this in my 1941 colonial that I’ve been avoiding for years…😂
Just like my bathroom no insulation in the walls great cold walls
What do you charge a customer for a job like this? just curious. Look like a lot of work/labor.
$18,250 back in 2022. I’d be closer to $23-24 now
@@BathroomRemodelingTeacher Thanks! and good work!
You are a beast
This being a Budget renovation..wouldn’t it make more sense to leave wall plaster in place?
It lasted 50 yrs would last another 50
Maybe 🤔 doesn’t save that much time. Hope you watched enough to get an idea what’s involved
Could you have vented out through the wall instead?
would you consider using a power tool for the tile demo in the future? or is a framing hammer the only way to go?
Could work, I personally haven’t found anything to that speeds this up
looks nice ...layout just bad big job there for you to fix
Asbestos?
You have probably addressed this in the past, but I thought I would mention it in the comments as an fyi for those unfamiliar with this.
Be careful in these older homes when converting copper to pex for any new project. Check to see if the main electrical ground is connected to the copper pipe (check near fuse panel and follow large copper bare wire). If so, the copper plumbing pipes are being used as the electrical ground rod, and that path is to go out through the water main piping. It needs an unbroken path to the main, so putting in pex can break that grounding path. There is a possible way to fix it inside, (before the pex connection), with a large copper jumper-wire and clamps; to continue the grounding path, but it would be best to have an electrician connect a new main ground to a grounding rod outside, which is not that big of a job.
Also beware of this same scenario if you plan to put in a water softener yourself, the softener will break that electrical ground path, so the jumper wire and clamps are required to fix this break, as per softener instructions.
how would that be an issue here? these are end-of-run's to the fixture.
You did all of that and the room looks smaller then before. Waste of money!
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