re: Ever start a DIY home remodel project

Plumbing actually scares me more than electrical. I feel pretty confident selecting appropriate conduit and making connections. One bad plumbing connection can flood your house.

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How do you have electrical problems on a bathroom remodel? You really shouldn’t have plumbing problems either unless you want to relocate a shower drain or toilet. A simple remodel where all you do is update the tile, vanity/counter, faucets, shower head and a frameless shower enclosure isn’t to difficult or too expensive.

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Wife wants a different mirror so you got to move the light. Changing out the old school hot/cold shower knobs for a single handle. Got to sweat some copper pipes. Remove the old wall tile and half the wall studs are rotten from water damage. Almost every DIY project involves some kind of problem you didn't anticipate.

I am pretty handy around the house, but I find myself to underestimate the degree of difficulty of every project I’ve undertaken. I would swallow your pride and call an electrician and a plumber first thing Monday before you waste any more time or money.

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My wife and I are re-tiling one of the showers. Certainly not an easy project.

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I've done a lot of tiling over the past 20 years. I demolished an 80+yo tile shower, floor and walls recently and hauled over 3000lbs to dump. Huge project for such a small space. Anyway, I'm doing glass 3x9 subway tile in scurbless shower and it is taking WAY longer than I'd expected. I mix 1/8 of a bag of mortar at a time (have to use polymer additive bc anything over 6" on a side is large format for glass), so I'm not stressing over ending up w a bucket of cured mortar and just take my time. It's a PITA but also therapeutic and looks awesome. Glass tile is a bitch until you get used to it.

You guys are NOT STUPID. You just haven't learned all the skills you need to know.

Have you got a Reader's Digest home repair book? These books are brilliant. Not to be speed read.

My husband and I rebuilt the farm house we live in from the place we bought (with holes in the roof through four layers of old roofing. Two bathrooms in this part. Only hired heating and airconditioning from a local contractor. Addition:had a contractor do the foundation work and framing for kitchen, dining room, long circular hallway three car garage and what we call the old fart bedroom above it. We did all flooring, all insulation, all plumbing, electric (an electrician friend helped with a four switch combo), roofing, painting, flooring, window installation. etc.

It's easier to build new than to renovate. But you can do anything so long as where you live will let you.

You and your spouses can do it. But for that bathroom wall, take it down to studs, clear out a work space and then rebuild as if it were new.

You can do this number 9. I’m remodeling two bathrooms now and the only thing I’m paying someone to do is the painting because our ceilings are 18 ft at its highest point and I don’t want to rent and then build scaffolding. What’s the problem?

I have tongue and groove on the ceiling and don’t trust my self enough to not get paint in places I really don’t want paint

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I’m always nervous when I solder a pipe.

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