Large Walk In Tile Shower | Bathtub Conversion | Full Bathroom Remodel | Time Lapse

[Music] hey everyone zach here was in construction bringing you another remodel video in this video i'm gonna show you each and every step that I took to take this bathroom that was completely original to the house the only update I was made was the toilet and turn it into this beautiful luxurious bathroom here I'm gonna go through and pull out the bathtub all new vanity new paint trim the main piece of this project was expanding on the bathroom sighs so this closet right here runs the length of the bathroom and is a little bit awkward and wasn't used very much by the homeowners they felt that they'd rather have a large bathroom to leave enough room for a big walk-in shower than have that closet so that will be one of the main steps in the process there's another look at the closet here we are going to be pulling off all that tile I'm gonna be very strategic about what drywall we do pull off and reuse some of it but of course we will be adding whole new green board or cement board in its place so when the first steps in any good remodel project is demolition so because I wanted to reuse some of the drywall is very careful about how I pulled out this vanity as well as didn't want to cause any damage to any of the plumbing fixtures like I mentioned earlier that toilet was updated somewhat recently so we are gonna reuse that toilet when removing a nice big portion of tile I've always found it's easier just to score around the drywall and exactly where you want it to go and then you can actually pull the tile chunk off all in one piece do keep in mind is gonna be quite heavy and if you do need to break it in half or a couple smaller chunks so you can carry it that's probably a really good idea everything came out pretty easy I did decide to go with pulling out that wall first and work my way around as opposed to going the opposite way with all that tile there was a light switch that came down through this wall so I was very careful not to damage that anyway and fortunately for me it is on a separate circuit so I was able to turn off any power to that completely while still having light in the bathroom once I got that wall removed I kept on going working my way around and come to find there was actually a pretty large space on the right side right there which comes in handy a lot later so after pulling the tub out of course I found a big blob of mortar underneath the bathtub it is very common practice to do this and I ended doing that as well but we will have to chip that out later so of course when we got the jackhammer to remove all of the old floor tile I'm the jackhammer made really quick work of this I did try doing it with a hammer and a crowbar it just was taking way too long so the jackhammer was a savior in this aspect of the project getting all those chunks cleaned up and here's what I was talking about before with that big mortar bed that goes underneath the bathtub just had to go through and break up as much of it as I could give it everything it's flat and level as I could and I went through and did some a little bit of extra clean up with all the mortar one big piece of this project too in order to have enough room for a nice big walk-in shower we wanted to move the toilet to the left about six inches so all I did was uncover where that plumbing pipe was find out where it ties into the main drain line and then added a slight elbow twenty-two and a half degree elbow with a little bit of an extended three-inch ABS pipe and just by adding those two little pieces I was able to move the toilet flange over just exactly where we wanted it to go this does have a little bit less room for the vanity but we ended up choosing a single sink vanity instead of a double so the spacing actually works out great you need to do a little bit of plumbing adjustment as well over where the bathtub used to be I wanted to move the drain away from the wall as much as I could but also needed to sink it down a little bit because bathtub drain is a little bit higher than the surface so I had to make some fine tuning adjustments here and after everything was cut to size and look good where I wanted it I went back with some ABS glue permanently fixed all of those drain lines in place including the toilet flange you can see right here and after those were all set i back filled in as much as i could leaving plenty of room for a nice thick concrete patch and then went over with a concrete mix I did use a fast drying concrete mix and I wasn't too worried about the finish I did make it as flat as I possibly could but it is all gonna be covered so I wasn't too worried about what it looked like getting everything cleaned up for the next step in the process so after all the drain lines were ready to go the next step was to start building the framing for the walk-in shower so I added a dividing wall right here adding tons of support so it was very stable didn't rock or wobble at all tied into the joists and add a ton of anchors into the concrete you can also see that I used my laser to make sure everything was lined up and square and both the dividing walls on either side of the walkway were perfectly square to one another again adding a little bit more support for that wall as you can see that little room that I was talking about back there came in handy that being able to get back there for certain aspects of the job on this side the homeowner asked if we could do a shower bench I thought was a great idea there's plenty of space so putting a bench right here is gonna be a great use of that space of course when building any surface that is going to have water near it you need to make sure that it is sloped you do not want to have any perfectly flat surfaces or water can just sit and stand because that can cause issues down the road so any flat surface including on top of the walls the benches of course the shower floor and then the curb those we're all gonna be sloped a little bit the rule of thumb is a quarter inch per foot of travel anywhere that you can go and that's true across the board and plumbing drainage shower pie even the bottoms of the shampoo niches that I'm framing in right here they will all get a slight so slope so getting those shampoo niches installed I just pre-built them and then screwed them in in between the studs that seemed to work out really well so the next is adding the lights over the top of the shower again I just used the same circuit that was in the closet lighting before just fish the wire through from the switch adding two of those lights up through the top there was some joist is in the way that was actually running perpendicular to the direction of the lights so just had to get a nice long drill bit and worked my way through those joists and then get some fish tape we fished the wire through it's a little bit tedious but it ended up working out just fine [Music] the lights that I end up using for this project are great product that I'll end up using significantly more and remodel projects down the road and they actually don't use a can they actually attach to the drywall and the box that everything is wired into is a completely separate piece that can just be floating up inside the drywall in between the joists so everything is wired in and then the light actually clips onto the sides of the drywall Here I am getting everything nice stapled in but with those lights they work significantly better I think that install is way easier and the coolest part is you can actually adjust the color temperature to fit your house so both the homeowner and I were very excited about that we felt like we could make those adjustments later down the road again with the ease of install of course that does come with a little bit of a higher price tag but the the features that come along with that are well worth it in my opinion so after all the electrical is buttoned up I need to go through and make some adjustments to the plumbing so pulled off that drywall there and since there was two sinks before and we're gonna be putting in a single sink I just had to cap off some of those drain lines and water lines and then move the sink line over just a little bit make room for that single sink we also doing a whole new shower faucet handle valve so all that was gonna be updated as well of course using all PEX products sharkbite products super great for installation any plumbing in my opinion the installment very well went nice and smooth you could tie into copper PVC anything went very smooth so after all that plumbing was buttoned up I was getting ready to put the drywall back on so I went through and had it blocking in a bunch of different places so that I could have good adhesion and plenty of places to screw in the new drywall to any drywall that I replace them I used the mold resistant green board it wasn't very much that I needed so I just bought two full sheets of that and ended up having plenty of extra worked out great so you can see I'm kind of going through and scoring some of the old drywall making sure that I'm gonna have a nice solid seam everything is gonna get mudded and taped of course but the less gaps that you have early on easier that makes your life down the road so after all that drywall is put in and secured just going through and taping those joints this is very small little space so I ended up using a quick drying mud for each step in the process just to allow a little bit more efficiency when doing the mudding and taping this was a multiple room remodel or a big basement or something just the standard hall purpose mud or taping mud does work great and just of course it does take a little bit longer to dry since there's only a couple spots and I was really hopeful to get multiple coats in one day I did end up going with the fast drying mud and overall I think it worked out really well so just make sure when you are doing some tape you put plenty along the seam put your tape over the top and then squish out as much of that mud as you can but also making sure that you have plenty of coverage underneath that tape so I'm getting all of those buttoned up even where I knew that I was gonna be over I still wanted to add some mud in there just so we could have a nice flat surface for the tile to sit after the first coat was nice and thick I did go back and knock some of those edges down although I ended up doing four coats total one tape coat and three top coats and sanded lightly between each one I also went through between the coats and did some sponging with a little bit of a damp sponge just to get off any of that excess best so here I'm going through adding and yet another coat of that top coat the drywall work that was done previously was done fairly well so I wanted to ensure that everything looked cohesive and matched there's also some spots where the old shelving was and I was in the closet that left a couple holes and dings and dents and also when I scraped off some of the caulk lines a little bit of that surface came with it so I wanted to make sure to go through and patch that up also when I was sanding I was making sure to knock down any of the previous texture so that I could feather out these new pieces of wall as much as possible I am going to eventually go through and retexture the entire room so that everything does match and look really nice so on the creative parts of remodel and bathroom is dry time so while the mud was drying on the walls I felt like was a great opportunity to start working on the concrete shower band so in order to make sure that there was really good adhesion between the concrete shower pan and the concrete slab that was supporting the rest of the house I use a layer of thin-set now is with that the white thing set was there and so I trialed that in and then pack the dry pack over the top of that to make sure that there's a good bond and then after the pre slope was all slope again with that quarter inch per foot I go through and add the pan liner because I have all those blocking around the perimeter of the shower pan it makes the pan liner install go nice and quick it did use a three piece drain that was glued in to the pan liner and also the bracket underneath this makes for a great seal great bond I did use my laser to go through and Mark a level line just to make it a little bit easier when I do end up doing the final drive pack mud so when you're doing a quarter inch per foot that goes for the longest distance so I measured from the longest distance into the corner and did my quarter inch per foot and then did a nice level line all the way around matching that same distance so even the long sides do have that plenty of slope and then when you're put in the dry pack mud just use a screeding screed and a level take it nice and easy plenty of time it's way more important this is flat and true and sloped properly so again going back and forth with different mud products using the dry time efficiently as possible I think I want to say that this is the final coat of mud that is feathered out to add a nice flat surface well after the shower pan was all done next steps going through and having the cement board I know there's tons of different ways to do showers this method I used might be a little bit slower than some of the newer methods out there but this is the one that I've been taught and I've been using for years now and it's tried-and-true never had any issues I am interested in learning about some of those new shower systems that everyone is talking about but in this project I just decided to stick with what I know so going through wrapping up anywhere that's gonna have tile underneath it's gonna get cement board within the shower pudding inside the shower niches and then after all the cement board was installed I go through with a mesh tape and cover all the joints and seams after all the mesh tape is in you go back with a fast drying mud compound and that mesh tape allows for the mud to hold and stick and gives it a place to stay Here I am having all that now so any joint or seam is going to get a nice thick coat of mud just to make it a solid surface waterproof plane this will be getting a waterproof painful membrane over the top of it but anytime you can make it flat and level underneath is what you want to do so I waited to the last second to pull off the light fixture come to find out that the junction box or the light box was way off so of course that added a bunch more work for me but it was not that big a deal I ended up doing it off camera real quick just added a little bit more drywall work so going through getting everything removed and mask off prepping for the first coat of texture now that all of the seams have been taped mudded and filled I also didn't feel like I wanted to get a bunch of texture all over the shower because I'm going to be applying a waterproof membrane over that and so I figured if I can might as well avoid getting an orange peel texture spray all over the shower so I have a cheap Home Depot texture sprayer that for these small types of job actually worked just fine for this application actually worked great some things I do when I am applying texture over finishes that are already done like a pre painted wall for example in this case I actually dump a little bit of an all-purpose primer into the texture mud just to give it a little bit more adhesion and let it stick a little bit better so after all of the texture was done I started the process of waterproofing so again I've mentioned this in a couple other videos there are several different ways to go about waterproofing a shower properly there are tons of videos all over YouTube that show you all those steps this process that I went with was using a paintable membrane red guard in this case with tons of other products that are very very similar I also used a fiberglass mesh to add even more protection in the seams and corners so paint on a thick layer of the Panvel membrane press in the fiberglass mask very similar to like a paper mache or something and press that in there and then go back over that again and just completely encapsulate the fiberglass with the waterproof membrane as you can see them going through all around the bench in the shampoo niches anywhere that two seams meet together in the corner and then all of the rest of the surfaces will actually get rolled on so painted all the corners and the places with a match will get three coats and the main surfaces will actually get two coats rolled on here I am applying the second coat and this all gets completely wrapped all the way around from the floor to basically as high as you want to go I mean there's no way water's gonna get up that high but just add a little bit of peace of mind so the homeowner elected to have a pebble shower floor which is very popular nowadays so I'm going through laying that out I've done pebble floors and some other videos and the goal with these is trying to make as little of cuts as possible make it look like it's just meant to be that way all the pieces are as large as possible I did go through with a thin set and raised the floor up a little bit there was some confusion on how thick the pebble floor was or the pebble tile was and it was actually a lot thinner than we had originally anticipated so I had to raise the floor up a little bit with some pen set and to make sure that the drain would drain properly so that's where you saw that white layer down there first so actually one of the things that I do is completely finish the floor before any other tile and so that I can actually rest the wall tile on top of the finished floor so that has water drains down the wall it will just hit the floor and drain into the center of the floor into the drain so as opposed to putting the floor in last where water can seep down in between that grout line I just elect to do the floor first it doesn't add an extra step and also there's some masking involved but in my mind it makes a lot more sense to have the water run from the wall to the floor first as you see I put some cardboard down to keep that safe while the rest of the tile process goes on so again I mentioned it in several of my other videos but I elected to use a laser again to keep everything nice and straight all the grout lines and I'm using a nice big 1/2 inch by 1/2 inch square notch trowel to apply these wall tiles they are 12 by 24 of course back buttering every single one I really did a lot of work to try to prepare to have these shower niches line up perfectly with the grout lines of course with a little bit of extra measuring and time to prepare for all that it worked out really well these shampoo niches and all of the half walls are actually gonna be getting an aluminum corner trim so I have a little bit of wiggle room there but they're the precision at the end is very very important so after that was all lined up and perfect I was continued on I do like to do the back wall first just to make sure that that's where your starting point is that's obviously where your high gathers and everything the shower niches were super important so I wanted to make sure I got those done first and then when the grout lines we'll make sure to wrap all the way around the shower but I knew that and have any freedom of movement as far as moving up and down because of those shower niches so I likely to do as much as I could on the back first before starting on the sides of the shower of course using a tile leveling system actually since this video actually found a new system that I liked significantly more action I'd be sure to leave that and several other tools and things that I like to use down in the description so once the back wall was up to where there was about one row left on the top I started doing the side again utilizing the laser to make sure that the grout lines are wrapped all the way around nice and straight [Music] having a good level shower floor does make a huge difference in this process there are several different ways to do it in other videos I actually used blocking before to do the second row first and then come back and then do apply the first row afterwards so that I can have custom heights but if at all possible I like to make the shower floor as level as possible to then be able to have my first row actually sit on that floor of course with some eighth inch spacers so one of the things that the homeowner really got creative about was their tile selection so that's several different colors and finishes and they're very excited about the different shades and transitions that they're gonna have and of course I wanted to do my best to make those look as good as possible they went with a a little bit of a beveled subway tile on the outsides of the walls with the same mosaic that goes in the back of the shampoo niches along the bottom [Music] again like I mentioned earlier all of these corners are gonna have aluminum corner trim to have a good transition between different tile pieces and of course I think it turned out great with subway tile like this I find it's a lot easier to pre-cut as many of the tiles as you can of course there's going to be situations we had a custom cut some of them but if they're precise and ready to go it does make the installation go a lot faster and grout lines do line up significantly more with a little bit of preparation and the top row is almost perfect a full piece of tile as far as the 12 inch distance there was a couple spots that I had to make some adjustments oh it was so minimal that you could barely even tell so I was pretty pretty excited about that from the shower floor using a full piece of tile all the way up to the ceiling is full full sheets so there's no thin pieces or weird grout lines or anything like that so now I'm working on the half wall as long as the curb that's all one continuous plane getting the aluminum corner trim pieces prepped getting those off then set in there and there several transitions bring these wrap from the top of the wall up to the side of the wall down there's three way corners going through the tops and coming down and then of course through the shower curb and again I mentioned this several times and I'll probably mention it again a little bit prep work in certain situations like making sure your wall is straight making sure the cement board is laying flat all of those types of things do make the next step in the process significantly easier again doing my best to line up grout lines where I can but also not having excess grout lines in places where I don't really need them here for example the the wall was just a little bit taller than that 24 inch tile so I had to go with a smaller piece right here and working out great the transition as far as those corners looks seamless once it's all finished up of course using tile leveling system anywhere that I now I'm doing the top of the wall of course this section right here that I'm working on as well as the curb and the other little section of the half wall and the bench itself now and even the shower niches all of those do have a slight slope so that water can run off back in towards the shower towards the drain the Hohmann are elected not to have a glass shower at this point I felt it was big enough that they could just have a nice open-concept walk-in shower so there is no nothing keeping the water in so of course wanted to make sure that everything was sloped going through and getting some of the last sections wrapped up one of the thing you know the tiling leveling system doesn't work great but in some situations using a little bit of blue painters tape it's really really helpful now I'm going through and I'm actually priming that trim they wanted to paint white and so going through and painting some of those areas [Music] and after the first coat of primer was on started laying out the floor I wanted to do the floor first in this case that I could put the baseboard trim on top and have like a nice seamless gap all the way around or lack thereof a gap this situation was kind of interesting if you look closely there's only like three or four different patterns of this tile or the homeowner was actually quite disappointed showed up and there's so many duplicates and so they work really hard for the night before I was going to put the flooring in and actually arranged the entire floor out in their garage exactly how I wanted it so I was very careful to carry in the pieces in the same order that they had laid them out you know things were turned slightly and I think it actually turned out great they did a great job at making it look in pure random no repeating patterns so after all the tile was in I wanted to go through and start preparing for grout so putting the grout on we did use a light gray grout that does work with some of the other furniture that's going to go in here as well as work with all the different colors of the Tong I really encourage them to try to pick a ground color that we could just so we just have one that is used throughout the entire bathroom I feel like especially when we start getting several different colors of tile incorporated in the bathroom if you could have one aspect of that color be cohesive it does help a lot with the overall look and so picking a light gray grout with all of these different colors of tile ended up working out great going through and getting all that pressed in there grounding can go pretty quick again like I said many times a little bit of preparation before doing the ground process so getting all the thinset cleaned out making sure there's no excess thinset squeezing between the cracks or even on the surfaces of the tile does make this process go significantly quicker and just like the old expression paint yourself in the corner don't grab yourself into a corner either so plan ahead a little bit make sure that your last section of grout is behind the door especially when you're planning on doing all in one step so now that the grout is all dried and cleaned up and start getting the furniture moved in told the vanity that they had actually purchased was the way that it was set up originally the drawer could not open because it was too close to the wall and they would have hit the trim and so I called the homeowner and said ok this is the situation and they elected just to move it away from the wall slightly so they were not worried about that at all they had kind of anticipated that anyways so there is gonna be a little gap on the left side of the vanity again like I said they were not worried about that at all so now that all the baseboard is laid and caulked I'm gonna go through and start painting now so of course I wanted to mask off I'll be tile so I didn't get any paint on that hit run out of plastic so I got creative and used some garbage bags and different things like that I did go with using an airless sprayer wherever I can I do elect to spray if possible I just think it is so much more of a consistent finish it does lay I lays a lot of paint on there if necessary you can go through a back roll but the overall look is so much better this especially with trim and even doors and things like that if possible I will try to paint the and spray the trim indoors with the semi-gloss white in most cases also to save some time I did go with cutting in by hand the gray so that I could paint all of it on the same day I did allow a couple hours for the white ceiling in the trim to set up a little bit before I went back through and and cut everything in by hand not everything was all painted I could start getting rid of all the masking really gumming in the homestretch now getting really excited we with this project there's tons of issues with ordering materials and and things like that but it ended up working out great the homeowner was very understanding very flexible about different situations so I was very happy to get this one finished up did take a little bit longer than expected but sometimes that is the case with with renovation projects going through now and just getting everything installed got that new light fixture installed even the vanity hooked up countertop in plumbing drain all of that hooked up you can see there there's the little gap that I was mentioning before now going through and putting the actual original toilet that I had taken out back in I had mentioned this toilet was new they had recently purchased it so of course there was nothing wrong with it so we put it back in of course getting new wax rings and new fittings and new valves those things so going through and getting the countertop all caulk tin and sealed around the edges and the handles and everything put on and then in certain situations like that mirror Brax we brought the homeowner in and that you know we could have had it sideways horizontal or vertical so I actually brought her in said okay you know exactly which way do you want this so there's no confusion and I didn't mess it up so we decided which the best way was to go so now that all the grout was all dry and I made sure to buff all the haze and everything off I'm starting to go through and get the plumbing the shower fixtures on going through and wiping everything down the key and it looks like [Music] so now after the grout and everything is dry I do like to go through in silicone caulk all of the scenes one last time of course I get a sanded silicone caulk that matches the same color as the grout so anywhere where there's a transition or a seam I could go through and once everything dries you can't really differentiate between the grout and the caulk but it does add a little bit of more waterproof water direction now I'm going in and hanging up the towel bars you can see there's a nice big storage cabinet that we had brought in also course getting the fish and touches the fan cover there what's actually worth a old light switch came down so of course had to make sure that that was it became the junction box that was accessible and put a access panel over the top of that so now I'm going through now that everything has been cooked I'm going through with a grout sealer so it's an impregnator I like to do it over the top of the silicone I figure extra layer of protection over everything cannot hurt so I was going through and wiping all of that on over all of the grout seams and so here are some final pictures it's exactly what the homeowner was looking for of course everything looks straight and seamless and all the grout lines match up all of the different colors of tile and how great homeowner was very excited and has been several months now since had to finish this up and I've actually heard that they elected to shower in this bathroom and use this one more often than the one that is actually attached to their to their bedroom which makes me feel great that they're so excited about it that they actually go to a different section of the house and harder to shower and use the restroom so but I have to give it to the homeowner of picking all these colors and tiles I was a little apprehensive to be honest with all of the different things they had going on but once it all came together especially with the cohesiveness of the ground I think it turned out awesome so thank you so much for watching this video I really appreciate it if it is your first time watching these videos I really appreciate if you smash that subscribe button I post often as I can all of these videos of course with all the craziness that's happening in the world right now there was a little bit of a lull there but we're back in the swing of things thankfully so again really appreciate you watching and we'll see you next time

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Length: 35min 37sec (2137 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 07 2020