Bath progress

Back before Christmas I posted about our Master bath redo from Katrina screw-ups. It’s still a work in progress with 3 steps forward a couple backwards.

Shower seat in the old tile, grout all cracking and full of holes caused leaking. Before:

Old tile and grout torn off and new cement board installed.

Since we didn’t have any leftover origanal tiles and not wanting to have same issue, we decided to buy new marble to match the Breccia Oniciata on the tub surround and sink vanity. I love this marble, it even has veins of turquoise green running through it. Step up that glass surround will sit on:

New seat and step up:

Close of marble Breccia Oniciata:

The day before Christmas Eve, the glass company installed the glass surround and we were instructed not to use it for 48 hours. Not fun having all that mess, workers in and out constantly, and cleaning up the days before Christmas.

The tub had plenty of issues too. For one, it was floating, not on cement. See below:

The original installers left this gaping hole in the marble and never put the silicon around the tub. New contractor sprayed about 10 tubes of foam that hardens rock solid under the tub. Cute Brazilian guy cut out a piece of Breccia Oniciata leftover from shower marble fixes.

My other 2 bathrooms desperately needed new faucets, nozzles, etc. Bath 2 looked like this:

Now looks like this: (colors are all weird and not true)

and this:

Bath 3 before:

After:

But the bad thing is, it’s difficult to find these three faucet fixtures since the new plumbing codes. I searched forever to find them online in oil rubbed bronze. And the really, really bad thing is I ended up with this:

and this:

Yes, the plumber had to cut holes behind these 2 tubs otherwise we would have to tear out the shower/tubs and start all over again. Way too much money. I hope that tomorrow the sheetrock/painter guy can finish up. I’ve had it with the mess, the crap they drop, the in and out of my house tracking in dirt and leaves.

But I love my new bathrooms!