man I gotta say it feels so nice in this room now that the spray foam is done
it's negative 20 degrees outside we had wind chills as low as 60 degrees over
the last couple days and I've been checking this room in relation to the
rest of my house and using my thermal imager to see how it was doing and these
walls were staying in the mid 60 degrees consistently throughout versus the rest
of my house I found spots in the old walls that were down in the 20s the 20s
that right there tells me that this is the right decision I know spray-foam
there's a lot of negative that surrounds spray foam and people think it's bad and
blah blah blah and honestly it can be done improperly
you can use inferior product this is a really good product it's no off-gassing
and you can do six inches in one spray so you don't have to worry about making
sure you'll air it properly so you don't get that off gas so I'm really happy
with the spray foam and now I can work in here in comfort and not feel like I'm
just spending money losing energy so today's project is gonna be the toilet
I'm gonna move the toilet location my wife and kids and really me never really
liked the location sitting in front of the window it just didn't make sense the
first thing you saw when you came in the bathroom door was the toilet so we're
gonna move that I'm gonna cap off the copper the PVC for both the waterline
and the sewer and then try to find a new location for it I have an idea where I
want to put it now over the last couple weeks because it has been a while we've
decided that I think I'm going to remove this wall yeah I'm just gonna take it
out they're gonna put a header up here and that's my staircase and I think
we're gonna take this away from being a spare bedroom there probably an office
loft maybe a reading nook I don't know whatever it will become somewhat a
public space which means we're gonna take the back here the door to the
bathroom that goes into my hallway we're gonna close that off and we're going to
open up a new doorway from this room into the bathroom I'm pretty excited
about that I think it's going to be a great change
it obviously adds more work to this job that I didn't know going into that I was
going to be doing but it'll all be good in the end hopefully so let's get to
work all right during the demo process I went
ahead when I took the toilet I shoved a rag in it and honestly that probably
wasn't the best idea because I can smell a little bit of the sewer coming out of
this pipe when I get real close so definitely excited to get this taken
care of now I could cut all this up to work on this
but I'm gonna go downstairs right underneath this is a closet and I've got
a socket that I can access these pipes so I'm gonna go down there and do the
work from down there then we want to tear up all this flooring and I've
already got the soffit cut open so I just made the decision to do that all
right this is a super cramped area there's a little closet the toilet is
right up here you can see and this is a little soft fit believe it or not this
is quite embarrassing about probably 10 years ago so very shortly after we moved
into the house the remodel was done there was a leak so I cut this open I
took care of it and I just in the back of my head it's kind of like all the
window trim in my house I knew we were gonna redo this this closet was gonna
probably get redone someone pour up whatever because a lot of stuff was just
patched quickly so that we could get moved in and so I never actually fixed
this so I guess it's a good thing because now I'm here taking this toilet
out one of those things out of sight out of mind we don't really come in this
closet very often so first thing I got to do is I'm going to cut this vent
stack above the elbow that way I won't get anything coming down or coming from
the pipe so that'll help keep things nice and clean okay here we go
make sure there's nothing in the backside I'm gonna hit as I exit my
all right clean cut now clean up this edge should have gloves on just don't
wash my hands get some glue don't tell my wife I'm using one of her alright
well that wasn't too bad I feel good about having that done and I
know it's sealed off and we're all good so now what I got to do is I got to cut
the copper line I'm going to shut my water off cap that as well and then this
part of the project is done pressure the vacuum releasing and I got the valves
open throughout the house so hopefully they all drain versus it coming out
right here right there now whenever doing any copper work a little trick I
can't remember the first place I saw it I think it was this old house take some
bread ball it up shove it in your pipe you might be asking why well the bread
will dissolve over time and it will stop the water from coming out and getting in
your in your sweat joint when you start sweating it which is always a problem
a little bit of flux on that pipe I'll put some in my cap let's cap that
I was like to be safe than sorry make sure you got enough on there yeah I
think we're good to go all right that was actually fairly easy the only
problem is I knocked over my primer for my PVC and it smells horrible
I got it cleaned up the best I could so I'm just gonna leave this room closed up
for now maybe crack the window kind of is what it is but oh my god be careful
and working with the primer it smells bad and it does stain a little bit this
is the original wood floor in the house I actually pulled it up out of one of my
other rooms and laid it in here it never was even sanded or finished so
I guess I don't know what I'll be doing when I'm done because you can see and
see what it's kind of done the primers in the grooves it's got a little bit of
a purple tinge that stuff is nasty I wish I had the clear primer now but the
good news is we've got copper pipe soldered taken care of
that was the soil pipe for the toilet got that capped off I decided to do it
on the rise after this little 90 instead of here in the flat just because I
didn't want any garbage that potentially was in the pipe coming out so I don't
think it's a big deal no big deal all right that should be pretty easy there
every gross this one might require
look at that my bread is still there that's what was keeping my water from
coming out now this wall right here is the wall that separated the bedroom to
the bathroom and if you look back here there was a door that came into the
bathroom and the door that comes into this bedroom what we're gonna do is make
this place a public room which means we're actually gonna remove the door
from the hallway into the bathroom and I'm gonna frame in a new doorway here it
doesn't mean they got a little bit of electrical work to do and one of the
main reasons we're going to go ahead and switch this up and put a door here into
this bathroom is to close this door off right here so that we can put probably
the stool right here the toilet that way when you come in the door is gonna open
it's gonna close off the toilet if somebody were to be sitting there and I
think it's gonna work out a lot better over the flow all of my bed stack and
everything right here in this little wall so that's gonna give me really
close to my event and my sewer pipe is right there so it should be pretty easy
I still got to do some digging to see if it's gonna work out though all right so
it's gonna start working on this door and of course I pulled out this laser
this is a Bosch combination you know cross-line laser I figured I'll just set
it up and I'll use it to check my plumb on my door jambs
but then there's this horizontal line that it's kicking out perfectly level
and I thought well might as well check the floor I'll see how it measures
around the bathroom you know just because when you start putting in tiled
showers and everything else you want it to look obviously you want to look good
you want to be close and then now that I'm putting the doorway in between the
wall instead of using the original doorway I shouldn't have done it it's
about an inch off so now I'm gonna have to probably I'm probably gonna tear the
rest of this floor out I'm not really I'm not really looking forward to it
guys but I think it has to be done because my OCD is gonna get the best of
me or something like that I don't think I'll be able to live with it
well that escalated pretty quickly wasn't really planning I'm tearing up
that subfloor having to sister these floor joists but that's what I'm gonna
do not just because I want to create good content but because in good
conscience 12 years ago I did a lot of exactly what I'm not gonna do this time
around and that is cover things up live with an acceptable 1-inch slope in your
floor give me a break what was I thinking I don't know probably just
thought it wasn't gonna matter well it matters I can't stand it I don't like it
when my trim isn't going straight when my tile isn't going straight when I got
gaps in places because I just can't make up the difference you know I always say
a good carpenter can hide their mistakes and also a good carpenter can hide other
people's mistakes however this is just something that I think is worthy of
taking the extra day you know it took me a day of messing around at my house to
tear this all up I got to get a bunch of material because I don't have the lumber
here to sister these floor joists so I'll have to do that which is going to
delay the remodel I could have you know could have got this wall framed in for a
door today maybe close this door off and I'd be sitting pretty good to you know
get really close to start maybe closing closing the bathroom side up however
it's not gonna happen not today so it is what it is we'll just we'll come back at
it another day so demo continues thought it was over