Small Bathroom Renovation 1905 Building | Reality Renovision Ep16

back to say hey you don't have the water off it's just where the water was getting him behind the tile [Music] this is why you need to replace the steel pipes in your hips I don't ever want to see this again nothing like the satisfaction being able to tear apart something you hate I think we're gonna increase value in this kitchen this is not acceptable and that is money in the bank this is where it gets fun oh it's not the time they're putting out the good dollars thank them here oh there's another tool you won't need the buyer perfect every time [Music] so in today's reality renovation episode we are tackling a really small bathroom in the original three-story walk-up but back in 1915 so what we have is tiny space because of course back then bathrooms were all about function just getting you in from outside and we're in about space so what we have is a real small you know conglomeration here we have a toilet shower and it's tiny little sink and it's had a couple of little modifications over the years this is not the original bathroom this is the classic we're gonna build in and build in and build in and modernize as we go along my guest looking at the date of this tile this was last done in the 70s maybe even early 80s Forest Green was huge back then but you can tell that this tile is probably installed over top of the original mosaic the tiles surround on the tub it looks like that's a newer wall most likely it's been replaced you can see that there's some mold issues going on so obviously it was just tile over drywall no waterproofing system involved here client just moved in a couple months ago and so they had to kind of Jimmy rake a few things together to make it all work function for them but we have all this unnecessary architectural feature we'll call it bulkheads everywhere this is a huge box that doesn't need to be here we went to check the mechanical going into the basement so we know we've just got some water and vent supply lines in there in the corner so we have the ability to make the space a little bit bigger we're gonna do a couple of things to make some conversions and turn the way that things are working we're gonna put in a really cool walk-in shower with no door system on it that way it'll make the space work we don't need that curtain never again it'll just be a glass curved panel and I think at the end of the day we're going to have to probably level the floor peel it all back save the brick and this is gonna be gorgeous restoration into a modern but classic style bathroom cliff favorite then matching spaceship lays on the ceiling and one above the vanity our UFO okay so first of all the biggest secret when you're doing a demolition in your bathroom his space you need more than you have so what you want to do is get rid of the toilet first off whether you're just pitching it or you gonna save it like we are getting rid of the toilet is always a first step remember before you touch anything plumbing always turn off the water so because of the condition of the house that we're in here this is a three-story walk-up we don't have individual water shutoff controls so we have them all at the source so instead of turning off the water the entire building we're just going to turn off the water here and then we're gonna flush and drain the tank luckily for me today I've got my son Matt helping out which is awesome oh what's going on yeah Matt I'm gonna need you to grab the wrench for me so I can disconnect the water supply okay this is where we find out if this valve it's actually gonna work yeah good looks like it's actually gonna work hooray [Music] now there are toilets ready we're gonna get rid of the lid set that somewhere careful or saving the toilet when you're gonna take your that oh we got this little system designed the bag is really thick three mill construction on the plastic so you can actually hold onto the bag instead of trying to hold the bowl really assist in making that job easy then straight up goes the races okay we just pack it up and then set it down so we are breaking with tradition today and I'm not putting in my Tim Hortons cups this is just a cup from a local coffee shop but you can see that fits that hole really well a little more sewer gas thank God trying to keep it level because there's a huge amount of water in this bowl right out onto the deck okay yeah over the cords exactly before you get too busy tearing everything out take off all of these extra rods that are on the wall and if there's anything else in the room that you want to keep or recycle or send off the Habitat for Humanity make sure you uninstall it before you get going with the hammers and all that sort of thing so this is a typical 16 by 24 medicine cabinet and somebody has gone through the trouble of silicone in it to the wall and then inside basically there's usually four screws two on each side into the studs a normal most interior walls don't have insulation in them people about shoving these in there for extra storage Wow very cool so here we have the original exterior wall lath and plaster look at this down here you can see that's where the all the freezing point was without any insulation those walls don't do very well in the back we have our cast stack and then next to that is a really small inch inch and a quarter I think it's inch and a quarter steel pipe which would have been probably the venting for something and that is the reason this box is here it is to cover that up which is amazing because it's really quite large but I guess they just wanted to build it all the way out to where the tub line came to so we're gonna remove all of that and gain all that space back in our room so that'll move the box back about five inches and it'll give us all the footprint we need for our beautiful sweeping shower pan so you're just going to remove potential injuries out of our way here there we go okay this showerhead is going to be saved along with the one it's not going in the new shower but leave a little surprise inside we're just gonna stick that aside you can uninstall all this stuff mostly just a screwdriver philips drill bit and a little wrench back to suit okay you don't have the water off uh-huh I think somebody's done me a favor and silicone the hell out of this [Music] okay so while we're waiting for my son to bring my drill in because what I'm gonna do is I'm in its going to take this bit here I'm gonna drill the screw out of that handle the assembly comes apart really quite easily in most situations but for some reason this one's all threaded and stripped it's causing us pain yeah so there this is wonderful whoever put this on didn't put it on tight enough so I was able to just turn it upside down we're just gonna use the allen key here to just loosen that off a little bit more it slides right off and this is a little bit unpredictable it's going to happen here so this is a very non-conventional way to do this but when you have an unconventional problem to use an unconventional solution now I can take this off [Music] make that hole big enough there we go now this is a half inch standard thread a half inch standard thread goes back to pipes that are well over 100 years old I think it was always a half inch standard thread they've never changed that you never have to modify from one standard to another so no matter how old your steel pipe plumbing is this stuff will work all right so my system for doing a demolition to bathroom is basically fixtures furniture then the tile and the walls and then the floor so we're gonna finish removing the vanity here we go just got it holy that we have shutoff valves at the source here that is lovely so we're going to shut off the water to this one and then we'll be able to pull this apart [Music] that's good news the first thing you want to do is disconnect the faucet and then you want to disconnect that sink from the drain system and then the rest of it you can just beat the hell out of it most of the time when people put these things on you over tighten them that gasket there you know it's all flattened out it's hardly anything left your Formica top with a drop-in sink your best bet is to leave your handle and your sink and your countertop assembly altogether and just remove the countertop from the base cabinet undo the plumbing neck here okay please these countertops are usually installed with a screw or something in this case though it looks like graveling was its best friend except for the bridge lift it right out of there there's half the battle stick to the garbage women [Music] [Music] so they use cement they didn't use a lot they didn't have great coverage they didn't wet the floor before they put the cement down which is why half of it stuck to the tile and half it stuck to the plywood so at least that floor is gonna come up easy that's nice they use drywall screws to put the plywood down that's a no-no first is not long enough secondly is the wrong kind of thread so this floor is gonna be real easy to remove [Music] nothing like the satisfactions being able to tear apart something you hate we're gonna come back in and do the surgery as far as removal the rest these walls you can see down here there's just nothing behind this like it is absolutely just Rock okay and I'll tell you this much I know 95% of the old homes that are out there if you have a bathtub when you have mold that's what your wall is it's just dust okay you need to rebuilding what we're going to do is we're going to just be real careful here because we have all the water supply lines going for all three stories going fit as well what we want to do is when I cut this ball in half using my hammer break through the tile and then open this up like a big panel and just remove it one panel at a time [Music] now you can see this is fun the wallboard behind this tile was the water-resistant drywall okay he'll have a lot of good it did hmm that's water-resistant drywall this garbage right here let's take a look at the backside it's just where the water was getting him behind the tile [Music] so I just wanted to take a quick moment and talk about these old homes this has obviously been renovated out the wazoo first of all this bathroom space was not part of the original house there's no way this was done later on this wall board back here these are drywall panels these are 16 inch by 4-foot the trademark on the Lord goes back to 1940 so at some point soon after 1940 somebody added bathrooms for this entire three-story walk-up unbelievable and they originally used all the threaded pipe the steel pipe here's an original waterline still sitting in the wall somebody had cut out but they weren't able to remove from the wall at the time okay so that's what the inside of those threads of pipes looks like if you have them it's nice to get rid of them and they've obviously renovated since the 1940s modernize this a little bit putting the green drywall probably early 80s by the color and the fact that this green is that pale green added copper line which is nice they've kept the same old vents probably will work fine for a long time to come but you can just you love how everything's just been cut and stitched back together and nailed back together those boards everywhere my goodness nobody's ever rebuilt this wall for running plumbing they just keep on adding on and adding on and adding on so yeah you might find yourself more problems when you open up a whole wall but it sure gives you a lot more opportunity as well like here's here's the debris from years and years and years of renovating sitting in this wall holy cow because the house is really old and we don't want to have too many vibrations around this glass I'm gonna just double check ten and a half to the glass and tile over here I am eleven and a half inches to the existing plaster so that means that they have the existing laughing plaster plus green drywall and then the tile so when you smash that you're smashing so the solid exterior wall that's plaster and laughs all right so what I would like to see you do is instead of trying to smash your way through that break the tile up with a surface hits and then use the claw to get in behind the drywall swinging down okay and then we'll hopefully be able to peel the drywall off the surface okay all right and start to the left of the glass and see if we can get a good hold of that time [Music] now use the claw on the left side yeah now take that fall apart off okay you're gonna want to get your feet out Oh silverfish hmm moisture yeah well you got to have much water damage Matt you gotta wear their gotta wear the mask [Music] I can't see with you speaking on it all pumped up like when you bring with a mask on like I can't see really safety first you can't see what you're doing it's safer than being able to see you [Music] yeah you heard me if you can't see what you're doing that must be safer to wear the glasses with the diaper on your face the pile gonna come away from glass gives me a little bit of an issue you got it that's all coming as one piece oh nice that's not gonna be drafted okay maybe how much bigger this room would have been if they just killed the old enough [Music] hey we might be able to get that steel pipe oh man after all hang on a second but I got you hang on Matt yeah I said hang on a minute hang on cute fix to the trade the others are gonna spin it yeah well and loosen they're kind of done that before or they going nowhere [Music] I was thinking more like this right up there we realize it once it's nice to go on there may not be anything holding it that's why I came to hold it it's gonna swing right down yeah [Music] [Music] all right so we're just starting now to get a handle on you know what space it is that we're dealing with and how we're going to open this up we're gonna have to keep our back wall pretty much where it was and build back out we're saving the glass block as part of our finished bathroom but this whole box here we're gonna remove we're gonna go back to the existing wall now this particular tub is installed directly on the hardwood that was originally in this area that means that they've also added plywood and tile so it's not what sunken tub so we have a complicated situation here where we either lift it up to pull it out or if we remove the box first I'm lucky in this situation because I'm removing this wall I can slide it this way and then move it out remember when you're pulling out a tub you've got the plumbing from the tub spout that's in your way the plumbing from the toilet area coming out of the wall that's in your way so you got a lot of different situations you have to deal with so I think for us if we remove this box we'll pull the tub this way then we'll have lots of space to pull it out a little bit simpler and we aren't going to have to fuss around too much these old steel tubs they have these little clips lovely boy that's really efficient the one over here was suffering a little bit of water damage so it's completely rusted away now so that was a no value to the homeowner at all oh I don't even know what this what's this oh nice some old wall paneling used as a backboard that's good for wet areas that looks like an original pedestal sink location yeah sure enough exactly what that was I love this because in the old days they'd take the plaster and while it's still wet they would draw these lines in it to make a look like tile so when the plaster was dry they could put a semi-gloss paint on it and make it look like a tile application even though it's just a plaster application now that's being creative I don't think any of this is what even screwed in anything nope all those screws missed the wall entirely everything's so built out [Music] whoo I came up with one piece lovely you know what's really cool is you see all the original threaded steel in here steel water lines right so what they do is they put a copper fitting on the copper pipe they solder it on and it has the same thread that the old still putting here so you can take brand-new copper and just thread it in and convert it but you saw the other side of that inside of that other steel paper do you really want that in your drinking water yeah to brush my teeth of that kind of crap so what I'm gonna do is just unscrew the box because they use drywall screws we gotta make it work forget the screw in nice just sitting on a couple of mounting screws that's it Oh even better let's pull some wire through [Laughter] yeah oh you know what if you take the average home before 1960 I'll tell you the majority of the stuff that's in that house looks like this Jimmy rigged Oh creative barely holding together it's no wonder we've had to change the way we do construction and actually bring any building codes wow that's scary [Music] grab my hammer all the roofing nails out of this thing and see if we can keep it someone attacked its me incredibly brittle no this is actually more of a book that's that's a lot of paper there we go get the funnies Wow just get going there well there's the brand-new delivery truck fleet and in the company there I know that's some old stuff peaky blinders here we go see if we can find ourselves a date this is a Maclean's magazine 1931 well at least we know when we renovated Mobil Oil there's a romance novel inside the Klan's magazine probably shouldn't be reading that for married man alright so the fascinating thing here is how much mold is trapped inside this wall cavity and I think it has to do with the fact that we have so many layers of ceiling and there's really cheap fan in the side wall it's not removing the moisture out of this room time to get rid of this mess [Music] Wow oh my god there we go Wow that came out so easy I'm glad I never use this as a place to wash my face so as you can see we have now established a space that we can move our tub into we have to just disengage the drain overflow with my little tub tool and of course look at this 1931 tub and it fits unbelievable how standard plumbing is over all these years and of course back then they didn't use silicon they would have just used plumber's putty and it still isn't leaking in its 2018 so for everyone out there who says plumbers putty is not good I'm sure that this one particular tubs performance has gotten more credibility than anyone is alive today they have a different opinion we're separated we're ready to go let's take this bad boy out there's nothing holding us down it's just a steel tub weighs about 60 pounds you're gonna lift your end up about a good solid inch and a half to 2 inches there's a nail here and there it's gonna keep you from going any higher than that pull it about six inches that way so then I can pull this tub in front of the plumbing here nobody just picked it up roll it lock it [Music] okay roll it over that way it'll make the corner yeah just go end of day one it's been a long dusty dirty one but that's cool because I love this kind of stuff really happy that our mechanical situations even though it's been renovated multiple times are still intact and usable and we're going to be able to just modify everything that's going on here into our new build we've designed in advance the idea of putting the shower with a new curved pan I can't wait to show you guys this is really cool and there's no door system on this so it's just a curved glass panel it comes as two pieces and you just stick them in and you're it's gonna be beautiful as you can see structurally it looks creative but it's pretty much par for the course for the day this kind of stuff was just here to keep pipes from moving around I had a little more vertical strength everything here is in great shape we've got copper for our water supplies our drains and vents are in great condition our main stack is in great condition I'm not even going to entertain the idea of replacing that at this point because it looks so healthy and I know it's a three-story home and that's a massive investment to go through changing that over but what we are gonna do is we're gonna peel everything back down to this barn board because I know from experience that once this is all peeled back to barn board I can do a little bit of shimming here and there and get a nice flat surface wall again and that's gonna be really easy to accomplish we also have the ability to pull some of this barn board off and get some insulation in these walls and I think that's going to be a really nice plus to have you know these walls are so thick that a lot of times the freezing points somewhere in the middle but with today's energy costs it is nice to have them insulated just so that we can trap all the heat that we're bringing out of our radiant floor anyway it's enough about today tomorrow we'll finish ripping the rest of this out and then we're tackle a little bit of a rebuild on the floor and some of the mechanical issues and trying to get all that prepped up hopefully by the end of the week we'll have something that looks sort of like a bathroom and gave you able to get this back into our hands next week early it's gonna be a six days and done kind of project so stay with us [Music] [Music] all right so we're sort of mid day day two on our project here we've got our demolition to the point where we've really opened things up and it's fun cuz this is the point where we get to understand the original use for this room because that was always my big question and what we've got we figured out that where this window is now this used to be the entrance to the rear of the house off the hallway very typical in that day that the front entrance and the rear entrance both had a second interior door to stop all the drafts so this would have been a coat room so you'd come in the back door they'd have an area here like a little closet probably a coat rack and a little bench and then you could go into this door and that would lead to the hallway in the kitchen area because the originally the semi-detached that we're in would have been a three-story single-family home now sometime in the early 30s it looks like or early 40s to me at the latest they've converted this over to a three-story walk-up apartment units and on that point they filled in this whole move the door into the kitchen and turn this into a bathroom so that is why there's so much original plumbing in this wall this all was originally the chase up to the second floor and then they'd came in here and did some add-ins and tie-ins what we want to do now is we want to modernize all of this so we're at a point now we understand how this was built we know how now to finish peeling everything back and then it's time to define this space so we can make a plan to move forward what we're looking at here right now is a very very typical renovation all right and I know that may seem a little bit extreme but we're dealing with a house that was built in the very early 1900's renovated in the 1930s to add a bathroom into this space and so what you'll see is way up here two feet above the framing is the original ceiling okay and so what they do and you see this all the time in 60 70's 80's homes is they'll come in they'll run all the mechanical underneath the existing ceiling someone will come in and then reframe a new ceiling and if you have ten feet originally they'll drop it to eight if you had nine they'll drop it to seven or even shorter on the bathroom and they run all our mechanical and then they close it up and that's how they define a space when I'm renovating I always like to take a look back and say okay so I found my frame now a do I like it is it high enough is there anything I can do to make changes so that I can get more height because to me in a small bathroom having extra height and extra light makes the space look huge and that to me is a massive selling feature down the road so the only limitation that I have in this ceiling outside of the wiring which is easily removed is this copper wire here and I have a steel pipe here all right now when I follow this pipe back to me right away I'm saying okay that's a vent line for something is bringing air and I follow it down the wall and lo and behold this vent pipe is only supplying air to just where the sink is now since we're going to be running all brand new plumbing from the basement to the sink I have the ability to just cut this off and seal up that cap and the best part about this is they still make the ABS fittings with the proper thread that I can just take remove this pipe and fill that hole up and walk away no special tools or plumbers required we can't really peel back any more than we wanted to on a really old house when you have this barn board okay that vertical board is actually part of the structure I do not ever recommend peeling that off just to get a little extra room in the house the balloon frame construction style it's not it doesn't operate the same as point load so you don't have a stud in the wall where there's weight on top of it and it's sitting on something else solid every one of these vertical pieces here is transferring load horizontally to the rest of the wall and so it's very important to remember don't define your space by ripping out wood that is actually valuable to holding up your house okay that would be a real bad problem so part of the fun part of this project is the fact that we've got this fan installed into the wall well it's crazy because I know beyond a shadow of a doubt an electrician install this man all right she didn't just run the wire he did the whole job and the reason I know that it's cuz up in the wood here I see all these marks where he had his drill bit going through the ceiling poking holes creating a room where he could fish the wire from the box over this big space outside he probably bashed out the brick to cut all the hole installed it and and I know was an electrician because he didn't want to make a big hole in the ceiling he probably didn't have the skills to patch and repair a ceiling and do a paid job and by doing it this way he was able to just put a small hole in there in the ceiling here and do a little quick putty job and walk away and say there you go now you just got to touch up the paint and that's probably what happened here now this is such a bad idea this is not designed to go in a wall it's built to go in a ceiling and so this is actually falling apart so fast because the housing is starting to make all kinds of noise so we're gonna rip that out save the wire and we're going to introduce a new exhaust in the new ceiling much higher up in the brick and actually run an insulated duct line for that ah this is just so wrong I don't ever want to see this again there is a wall fan on the market that's designed to be installed in a wall but for God's sake buy the right fan it's only another eight dollars so here we are and this is gonna be it sound a little confusing but in the original original bathroom this framing was part of the box that came up huge box effect that was here and originally when they decided to make this a bathroom they added steel water supply lines okay here they are and they were cut off and left in here at some point but then there was another renovation and somebody got rid of the steel supply and went to copper now there's a fitting you can just put on a half inch copper and you can thread into that old old steel line and that's fine and so then that was the water supply for a little while and then someone else came along and said oh I don't like that let's cut it off let's shove it in this wall and like it literally buried it in the wall and then brought new lines in from the bottom don't understand that it doesn't make any sense to me at all except for they wanted to not be using the steel pipes anymore so what they did is they brought this up through the floor now now we have this box defined with junk in the corner that has to be removed we've got new lines coming through the floor here that I've got to cut and remove I'm just gonna say this once when you're renovating a space try to think a little bit more long-term don't be afraid to run things in near a wall bringing them up through the middle of the floor just because it might seem convenient from the basement it doesn't do any good for anybody else down the road I always try to cut out when you're not gonna use something too more cut it out and get rid of it this whole box was totally unnecessary because they just ran a new drain into the basement which is right underneath this they wouldn't have needed the whole steel line in the whole box either they could have basically just put the piece across the corner to cover the cast and they would have had a ton more space in this room which is what we're gonna do and you're gonna see how that changes the whole width bathroom works so we're gonna just talk floor here real quick what I did is during the demolition I just stopped and vacuumed this up to give you an idea of how many layers are in this house now we have an original 1 by 10 it's on a 45 degree angle this is the structural this is doing all the work okay this is carrying all the way to the floor this one stretched across the floor joist is downstairs and then they finished it off with a nice hardwood you know it's a two and a quarter inch three-quarter inch thick tongue and groove real standard for the time these trees grew down the street they cut them down mil and put them in their house you expect to see this but what they did is when they decide to turn this into a bathroom they wanted to have a surface they could tile on so what they did is they added three cores of plywood on top of 3/4 hardwood I'm not sure what the thinking is there but the secret to putting down a 3/4 inch plywood is using a long enough screw to attach the plywood to the subfloor which is this one not the hardwood this hardwood was put in with pin nails I call them pin nails they're like large iron triangles okay there's not a screw so this is not screwed to this so if you attach this to the hardwood and you don't test this to the subfloor you still have movement and tile is gonna have bad performance with movement well these monkeys went ahead and they put this down with one and a quarter inch fine thread drywall screws because that probably was all they had on them at the time and they were too lazy to go to the store and buy a box of screws unbelievable made my job easy picking it up but just stupid folks if you're gonna build something take the time to use you know dude do it right to a certain degree I mean there's there's a lot of different ways to do something right but there's really some ways do things dead wrong this is one of them we're gonna peel all this crap back get back to our subfloor put on a thin layer of plywood because we're looking for the inch and a half of total thickness and wood all right we're gonna add some tow by fours underneath for structured for load transfer just to stiffen up the old have us a little bit but we're gonna put on a little bit of plywood throw in our electric heat pour in some leveler and we're gonna have not just a strong and a floor that's not bouncing around but we're gonna have it level again for the first time since this bathroom was built finally it's gonna get done right so by far the best feature in this bathroom this fire wall behind me this is the separation wall between this semi and the other one love the old red clay brick no we're not in an old Manhattan apartment this is just downtown hold the Ottawa and we're gonna leave this exposed and clean it up a little bit it's gonna be a great feature we don't want to make the rim smaller by putting a wall and drywall here we're gonna keep this where it is and that'll work out great now listen when you're dealing with your defining your space you obviously have budget concerns right demolition is free it's just your time obviously we're building this channel for homeowners do-it-yourselfers and that's you so when you're doing your demolition that's you the more you take out the more opportunity you have but you have to be a little bit patient because if you took out the framework in the ceiling and then you later decided that you weren't going to change the height of the ceiling now you've got to go out and buy a brand new framework and install it again so take everything one step at a time go back to the existing shell figure out what it is that you want to change you should change and what you could change but maybe don't want to have to pay to get done find out are you gonna do the electrical yourself are you gonna do the plumbing yourself you're gonna change your mechanical yourself and if so do you have the ability and the tools and then take a little bit of a cost-benefit analysis okay take a deep breath you can get excited and emotional real quick about a project like this and just say if I get another six inches in the ceiling is it work all worth all that extra work is it worth all the extra expense ripping things out is free but putting them back isn't fittings are expensive okay all your new mechanical stuff it can cost a fair amount of money so just by changing some plumbing around and doing a couple new electrical things before you know it even doing it yourself you could throw another $500 into a room that already has everything functioning so just think twice about it and enjoy your renovation I know a lot of people you might not think so but your plumbing has an expiration date if you have a home that was built at the turn of the century up to the early 30s you're gonna have steel plumbing in your house and we're gonna show you a little demonstration during part of the demolition of this bathroom in this video that would show you exactly what you couldn't see in that line and it's gonna shock you now in this particular project we're on here we're raising the ceiling and we're making modifications to the locations of other plumbing so we've opened it right up so that we can rip all of the old plumbing out and put in new stuff and so we're not gonna take too much time we're gonna go to the footage that we shot of us cutting these pipes in half and you can decide for yourself if you're comfortable staying with the water lines that you have in your home just a quick note when you're working in this kind of environment we're going to be cutting something that's got a lot of weight attached to it so in order to keep the blade from binding you just want to cut in a little angle away from yourself so that all the way to that pipe is connected to the last point of contact and just when you're about ready to cut through you might really grab that pipe and just twist it off I'll show you what I mean otherwise if it of binds on the blade again throw yeah that's not a pleasant experience not quite enough room in here to maneuver this but there we go okay that is called working smart control the environment something like that's not going to land on your head one day let's keep it on this one to as low as we can I'll make it easier to pull it up from downstairs [Music] now this is interesting because this is how you can confirm whether or not it was wet or dry you know that's only air look how clean that pipe is are you ready for this now check out the drain it's almost plugged completely solid there's just a little bit of a hole left for the water to go down this is why you want to rip this stuff out when it starts to corrode inside the pipe it grabs all the debris and hair that goes down the drain and before you know it it's just plug solid this is why you need to replace the steel pipes in your house okay so during our exploration here we've come across some steel plumbing that's still being used in this home both in the drain the vent and in the water supply system so what we're gonna do now is we're just gonna cut the water supply line open real quick have it take a look at the integrity of this because there are a couple locations in the ceiling and one in the wall here that I might want to take a look at replacing out now traditionally water supply lines they last a really really long time but if you're gonna do a bathroom renovation and you expect to last for 40 years and you tack that on to the age of the existing plumbing you'd hate to run into a problem with the plumbing before the bathroom runs its life cycle because you may not be able to fix that without destroying your new work so let's have a quick look here together and we'll see what the steel piping looks like now inside the line now right away this hasn't been in use for a while so let's use a grain of salt when we digest this but you can see all that crap you have a really small it looks like a fridge supply line at this point now if you have that sort of supply line in your shower and you're wondering why you have no water pressure that would be why okay so there you go folks lesson to be learned the old steel lines they have a life expectancy they will not last forever so if you're renovating and you run into them I would suggest do everything you can to update those lines all right what a mess remember whether its water supply or drain lines you might be surprised what's going on with your pipes that's the vent line it looks nice and clean and you cut something like that you think my plumbing is in great shape and then you cut the drain side and you go oh my god take a look and if you have this old junk please get rid of it besides your house we'll love you it weighs a lot I can't get that off the old floor joists there we go okay surprise they didn't do that the first time for whatever reason at some point these guys put in ABS system they chained off the old cast-iron pipe and put in this and then they connected this to the existing steel probably with this joint because they didn't want to open up the walls with is the last renovation but now that we've gotten rid of the steel I'm just gonna take my handy dandy little pipe cutting tool here and there the back side as well and we'll get rid of the rest of this ya know that's all garbage I remember whenever you cut explodes your pipes take the two seconds it takes to put on a test cap and tell you I'm gonna go do your plumbing that'll keep the sewer gases from coming in the room we have a absolute network of copper lines down here like I said this is a three-story walk-up three different units each one of them has their own hot water tank and water supply lines and these are hot and cold for what we're doing so since we're redefining how our space works what we're gonna do is we're gonna cut these lines here today and I'm gonna install these sharkbite ball valve handles here and that just slides onto the pipe on each side and then I can convert to pecs this way when I get the final resting place from my vanity which has got drawers and some other accessories in it and my plumbing has to be pretty precise I can get all that sorted out get the location approved by the client and then I can run my plumbing up through the floor from here at a later date just using PEX tubing it'll only take me about five minutes I have the ability now for my client to come running down the stairs run through this door and just go and turn these two valves right off right here with nope straw should don't have to reach around or move things out of the way in the case of emergency and that kind of peace of mind is worth its weight in gold it also gives me a couple of feet extra here in case they ever want to add any water lines in the future down here there's no laundry sink so that's the thought and that way if they ever wanted to add something in the future it's in a convenient location and it's just a quick Peck scrimp and we can add lines to runoff I always try to think what ifs because I can cut the copper over here that's awkward for me now I can do it here and that makes it convenient and it gives me flexibility down the road you know it's something to consider for every homeowner actually is to take a look at your main copper lines and put these ball valves on because they don't have any washers they'll always be working for you and then in case some emergency if you have your water supply tucked in in your storage room buried behind a bunch of stuff you can't get to it fast enough to stop a major problem but having an access door or something like this at the bottom of your stairs in your basement where you can just throw the lid and take toot Andals and do a quarter turn and shuts the water off for the whole house an emergency that is worth the investment of $20 a ball valve and a few minutes of doing it yourself plumbing just turn and tighten and we're there whoo-hoo all right now now the best thing about sharkbite is you can install wet you don't have to wait till this is done draining and dry you don't have to go to the cupboard and get a loaf of bread you don't have to do any silliness like that you don't have to leave the plumbing off for two hours and come back until it's all done draining he does roll it on there push and turn all right there we go now we're in place this is just a quick five minute job that gives me a ton of flexibility this way I only have to do plumbing once and every time I need to do make any adjustments for the rest of this project I can just come down here and turn off the water supply now if you want to check if it's installed properly trying to pull it off yeah if you can't pull off its installed properly no even after all the plumbing is finished I can change the position of these handles okay so I'm probably are gonna want to have them flat like this closer to the ceiling where I can give them a turn nice and easy so if I come down in a minute mercy I can just turn these like this I'm done beautiful twenty bucks a piece about ten minutes or the work piece of mind all right well that's pretty much it for all of our demolition defining our space fixing up our mechanical modernizing so that we have the capability to put in brand new fixtures and get years and years of enjoyment I guess the next time we see you we're gonna be done and we'll get to reveal this project to you [Music] really really proud of the job we did in this house of course you know I have a leaning towards century homes and this one's definitely over nine years old you can see by the fire brick here this is a separation wall we have a number of challenges in this room that are very unique to this particular you know this dimension itself in this bathroom is a typical five by seven and so traditionally if you have the doorway into a five by seven space on a short wall you have all the space you need for a tub shower toilet vanity but in this particular unique configuration because the doors coming off of a long wall we are very limited in our space we have a stack of supplying three stories of bathrooms hidden in this box we've got a window that wasn't going anywhere due to budget constraints and it is right in the middle of this wall so there's nowhere to begin and any shower coming from either these other corners what we've got is we've got the wedge from Maryland and this is a problem-solving solution 66 inches long it comes with a piece of glass it's made contoured for this particular pan allows you to have access and separation all in one little container and it has made it possible for us to get all three of these features in here so we have a much larger sink than we had originally we have a nice clean space it's very modern we raise the ceiling to give you that illusion of space and added lots of lighting of course the the shower system is a little bit on the simple side it's a to function so we've got a three jet here so you've got massage feature as well as the overhead rain shower and because the rebelled pro system does a lot has a mixed function on it you can pick either or or you can mix them together so you can sit here we're getting the rain shower and a good back massage it's an awesome experience and of course with the built-in mirror here that has the the a Wi-Fi signal you can have your sound system playing at the same time awesome experience and we of course but couldn't finish something like this sexy off without puttin an in-floor heating system now this system is set up so it's not just a floor warming but it is a room heater so we got the thermostat set for the kind of heat we want here in the wintertime and we can adjust it to the floor temperature for year-round comfort all in all amazing look right exposed brick great design elements it actually functions you're not claustrophobic and it's in a tiny tiny space really really pleased I love it when a client comes to me with a problem and says go fix it and tell me when you're done 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Channel: REALITY RENOVISION

Views: 154,091

Keywords: jeff thorman, home renovision, home renovision diy, renovation reality show, remodel reality show, renovation show, home reno, home remodel, tiny bathroom, tiny house, bathroom renovation, bathroom remodel, century home renovation, century home remodel, heritage home renovation, heritage house bathroom, old bathroom renovation, bathroom demolition, steel water lines

Id: fpehvapChCs

Length: 53min 39sec (3219 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 28 2020