DIY Transformation - Laundry Room into Bathroom Renovation

in this video we're going to be taking this existing laundry room and transforming it into a three-piece bathroom the homeowners had reached out to me asking if they could get another bathroom somewhere in their house so after going over the possible locations we determined that this would be the best spot it's on the ground floor so it's nice and accessible and as it had been there were four of them sharing one bath so they really needed a new space before even beginning demo i relocated the washer and dryer to the basement it was pretty straightforward as there was existing plumbing and electrical down there and then began working on the demolition kind of framed up this section here where they had the dryer and washer sat on covered with an old linoleum that was really tough to get off just using my sds to kind of scrape it away and then discovered the reason for the lumber shortage underneath uh this stuff was a little over engineered in my opinion but hey do your thing and taking my tile scraping bit and just popping these tiles out really came out nicely in one piece which makes my job a whole lot easier typically i'd rent a bin but because there's only the tiled floor no tiled walls could get away with using these canvas demo bags and just hauling it off to the dump myself just to save on costs a little bit and i knew that i was going to have a transition piece here eventually so just use my grinder to to cut it nice and flush and it didn't have to be perfect because it would be covered up later on and then taking off the self leveler and just ripping all that up and i recommend wearing gloves don't be an idiot like i am i moved on to the electrical uh typically this would come later on in most projects but just because of my skill set and the fact that i'm filming i wanted to get some better lighting in this for you guys and it's pretty straightforward though and i have two pot lights an exhaust fan a gfi wall sconce and some switches so you can see that there's a junction box there typically you'd want to remove that you don't want to bury those but that ceiling is accessible from above so i can keep it just makes my life a little easier to have it there and then cutting out all of my devices to reduce the amount of drywall damage and patchwork i use the exhaust van hole to fish all my wires down to the switches and i fish one wire for power and then three switch lines and those will go to the pot lights the fan and the wall sconce given that the existing room was a laundry room and not a bathroom that of course would mean we'd have to bring in all new plumbing for all of our fixtures and in order to do this of course we have to rip up the old subfloor just using a skill saw to break the plywood down into smaller pieces that it can come up with relative ease and then getting access to everything below this is always a little scary you never know what you're gonna find underneath and in this case it was just a complete disaster i knew that they'd have a three inch drain in this room but it was just wrong it was sloped completely the wrong direction and they had a 90 horizontal going on so it was just completely filled with a disgusting sludge and it was just traumatizing but we worked past it got it all out and then we were able to kind of look at how we'd run our new plumbing you can see here in the basement taking out that that main stack so that we can do it the right way when it came to the existing framing in this room it was really bad nothing was square plum or even relatively flat and because i was going to be putting in large format tile in the shower it's really important that you have a flat wall so just ripping out all of this drywall so i can get a better look and then adding in some framing we're going to be doing a niche in here and then on top of that we want to make sure that we can center our mixing valve and shower head so right now you can see me doing the niche just putting in a new stud making sure it's flat with all of the other studs and then making it as wide as we need it for our prefabricated niche as far as the height goes for the niche i'm making that larger than it needs to be because i'm not actually going to cut in my niche until the tiling has begun i'm doing it this way so that i can get the grout lines to all match up and it's just going to look really good that way also i had originally planned on putting my plumbing on the wall i'm working on now however after talking with my plumber he suggested that i keep all the water lines in the floor as opposed to that wall as this room was actually within the garage so he just recommended it be a little safer that way and i listened to that although i would like to hear uh some other people's opinions on that because i i'm not sure just how much of a difference there is actually between the floor space and the wall space here anyways in order to get my drains uh with the right sloping i'm gonna have to notch these joists and you always want to avoid that however because this is directly on the slab i took some sill gasket some pressure treated lumber and then some dimensional lumber on top of that and just screwed down my joists onto all of that getting them really rock solid then added some blocking here this will not only reinforce these joists keep them a little more still but it's also going to allow my subfloor to go down nice and straight you can see here just using the sawzall oscillating tool and hammer to create the notches that i need in order to get my three inch stack through there with the shower it was gonna be a curbless design so i had to sister up these two by fours on the existing joists in order to recess my subfloor just to uh kind of avoid building up the rest of the subfloor too much and this was relatively easy just taking my 2x4 laying a small piece of the plywood on top and just making sure it was all flush and yeah this is half inch green board in the shower if you're gonna freak out about that just send me a fax because you're clearly stuck on past technology this wire here is 18 2 lvt it's going to go to a driver that will be located in the vanity and it will power the light in the niche for this project i will be using the 72 inch by 48 inch shower pan by schluter and just cutting it down with a utility knife you could use a skill saw but i found that this worked just fine also if you are still watching at this point if i could just ask you to go ahead and absolutely annihilate that like button be much appreciated i would love you forever and ever so thanks [Music] when it came to setting the depth for my mixing valve it was pretty straightforward just accounted for a half inch of drywall 3 8 for my tile and then another 8th inch for the thinset so basically i recessed it so it would be an inch of finished wall for the plumbing work i did the water myself i had a plumber come out for the drains inventing but with pex it's really straight forward just using the o-rings to crimp everything down got my hot cold lines and i had the plumber also solder on some uh copper to pex connectors so it was very straightforward just running everything where it had to what's go sign it's like we're twin flames in a different life deep connection light's a spark it's like and with all of the mechanical stuff out of the way could start insulating and closing up all the walls in the floor i put the old insulation back in the floor and then on top of that got a whole bunch of new insulation i just i wanted to make sure that because this room be seeing a lot more use now i wanted to keep it nice and toasty so typical plumbers just running their stuff right through the electrical but it's okay just bent their pipe out of the way it's fine then i began gluing and screwing down the subfloor this is just 5 8 inch plywood and for the non shower area i did an additional 3 8 plywood on top of that to get the height to match with the shower pan we're doing this we [Music] my favorite part of every job is mudding yay so just here sealing up all of my ripped paper and then pre-filling all of the larger gaps with some sheetrock 45 after that dried i went through with the box stuff and started mudding and taping everything just doing a hand of compound at the beginning of each day kind of just knocking away at it because i really don't like this part so it's much easier to just do a little bit each day i find tells me [Music] [Music] for the waterproofing sticking with shoulder just using the appropriate size trowel and correct type of thinset to apply it all dampening the drywall first with a just a damp sponge and just throwing it up stuff goes on quite easily of course some very messy but it doesn't matter because we're looking to waterproof not for aesthetic [Music] the one thing i've never light with these schluter pans is kind of the indent around the collar there so i i take my collar and apply it the correct way and then once that's down i actually take a little bit of extra thinset and just kind of trowel it out so that the level of the pan is a little more consistent all the way to the drain it just makes applying your tile a little easier i find the ditra going down in a very similar way troweling it out and you could use a grout float to fully embed this i instead go for the patent-pending shuffle method and then using the curly roll to get all of the seams as well as well without of the shower area again this is a curbless design so i want to make sure that seam between the ditra and the pan is sealed as well as the walls just a little bit outside of the shower for the shower floor i would be using a large format tile meaning i'd have to get fancy with my cuts this here is called an envelope cut and in order to make it i'm just making a template this is just ripped down pieces of 2x4 hot glued together in the shape of the pan getting the grate and then i lay out my tiles on a flat surface and pencil my cut lines you can see me mark the center that's the great and then just taking a straight edge and going from each corner to each corner and each pencil line is going to be cut out you can see here just taking a wet saw going over each line and because these edges are going to be exposed we want to make sure that we polish them and to do that i'm just going to be using a polishing pad for the grinder and this really smooths out those edges and because you're going to be on it with your bare feet we want it to be nice and safe and smooth for the application of the tile i am using a half inch trowel with a white premium thinset i find the white stuff is just a lot better it it makes the cleanup of your grout lines afterwards a lot more manageable and the half inch trowel of course for the large format tile just ensures that you're getting the proper coverage i'm using 1 16 inch grout lines with a wedge system this is just a really nice way to make sure you have no lippage at all really gives you a flat finish something else i want to mention about this is that the type of tile i'm using is honed meaning it's got a lot of grip to it so if anyone is worried about slipping in the shower because it's not like a mosaic or a smaller tile there's not enough grout lines that's not going to happen this stuff really has a great grip to it for the niche i wanted it to appear as if someone just took one of the tiles and recessed it into the wall but in order to do that i would need a niche that was the right size for whatever reason they don't make a niche that comes in 12 by 24 so i took two 12 by 12 niches cut them down and then silicone them together i clamped it let it sit and the next day it was ready to go the shower profiles that i'm using are half inch deep and in chrome i like to staple them to the wall before anything that way i can just measure out my tile and not have to worry about them the first tiles are always going to be the hardest ones because you kind of have to awkwardly cut them down to size follow whatever level or unlevel your floor might be at and you need a laser level for this it just makes it so much easier so i just flip my first couple tiles over mark the laser line and then cut it and that way your cut edge will be facing the floor where you can hide it with some silicone and of course leaving a small gap to allow for expansion and then just working my way up the wall this part's extremely uh straightforward it's it's really just the first couple cuts as well as any special cuts like that shower valve there that are going to be tricky but everything else just goes up really nice and easy i find [Music] as discussed earlier here is the cut out for the niche so you can see that once i have that one wall down i know exactly where my grout line is going to end up there's no wiggle room it's established that is where it is so i can mark out my niche and just use an oscillating tool to cut it out now i didn't have my niche available when i framed this out so i made my gap a little too narrow had to use a combination of the sawzall and the oscillating tool to make it wider but then i just insert my niche poke a little hole for the low voltage wire there and then just waterproof it all so that the next day i can continue on a new tiling a new home for a while let me feel the light nothing to hold me back take my time just enjoy the pride can't is myself oh i feel i feel i feel i feel so alive as i was in the dark against bad times i know i'll be okay cause i find my way cause my way for wiring up the light i just take a simple little connector put the two wires from the lvt in and then slide the ip65 rated 4000k led tape light onto that use the sticky tape it comes with to apply it into the schluter deco and then a diffuser over top of that then turn it on a few times to test it and it looked really good then i prime everything with just your basic primer use a flat ceiling paint for the ceiling a glossy trim paint for the trim and white by bear for the walls in an eggshell finish pretty typical things for the grout just working it in with a float wiping off the excess waiting a bit going back with a damp sponge to get rid of any more excess letting that dry and then hitting it all again with a clean microfiber towel to get rid of any potential haze for the walls i made the mistake of using custom building products bright white and for the floor the same brand but with the platinum color the reason why i say it was a mistake is because i've used their products in the past and the walls were fine but the platinum for the floor had a lot of disc coloring going on and i found that to be true with their products in the past so there's anything you take away from this stick to another brand uh in the future i will be going to laticrete permacolor as i've used in the past and had absolutely no problems with it this is a very standard four inch wafer style pot light it's got the gasket so it can be applied in a wet area and it is in 4000k as i like that color in white spaces like this one this is the tileable gray i had mentioned earlier to get the depth correct i just piled on thin set underneath and then pressed it down until the tile was flush with the rest of the floor this is just your standard shower rated white silicone just taking a bead over all of my changes in plane and then spraying it down with some soapy water taking a popsicle stick and rounding it all out in the past i have used the tape method however that is much more time consuming while this way requires a little more skill it is much more efficient once you get it down when it comes to electricity guys don't play around seriously don't be an idiot turn off your power anyways uh here putting in a timer switch for the fan if you're not going to do this i would recommend then using a humidistat anything's better than a regular switch to be honest and then the other two is just your standard single pull switches they all get tied to the same power source and then each one gets a switch line and you can see here uh i abandon a couple of these 632 screws because they are complete garbage and replace them with just a drywall screw it's a little tip for you guys if you ever find that your screws are stripped [Music] this is a 30 inch pre-built vanity nice and cheerful fits the space quite nicely and to get it in it was a little bit of a pain because i had to drill in a couple holes in the bottom there to get my water lines in but once that was done applied a generous amount of silicone and then place the countertop on top i let that sit for a little bit and then installed my faucet [Music] there is a lot going on with this door so let's talk about that uh when it comes time to renovations everyone has a budget right this isn't hdtv not everyone just has millions to throw around we have to be conscious of our clients budgets and what we can do to stay within them so this opening here was only 75 inches high in your typical pre-hung door is 80 meaning we had a couple of options one we reframed this door which wasn't going to happen as the interior side of it was load bearing two we get a custom door which again we're getting into a large amount of money to spend on that or three we just ripped down our prefab door which is what we went with here um yeah your handle ends up being a few inches lower but ultimately with the money you save it comes down to how you value things and i think this turned out relatively nicely then with all of the trim done we can get into setting our caulk which is always a little bit messy we get all that done and then we can move in to the final finishings punching out the middle of the toilet flange here just taking a knife some sandpaper getting rid of all those little burrs and then just setting our bolts into place putting our wax ring on the toilet and then getting that nice and set they didn't have any stock on the typical toilet that i like that hides the side there so this one had to do that's it for this one there'll be a full cost breakdown as well as how many days this project took at the end of the video and check the description for any more information and yeah if you enjoyed this please like comment subscribe it ensures that i can continue making this type of content and have a beautiful day [Music] you

Channel: Workin' with Wolkon

Views: 466,826

Keywords: Bathroom, Remodel, Renovation, Transformation, Diy, Curbless shower, Large format tile, How to, Laundry room, Bathroom renovation, Bathroom remodel, How to renovation a bathroom, How to install a curbless shower, Bathroom design, Bathroom makeover

Id: WOI7yCNEVz8

Length: 27min 29sec (1649 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 18 2022