He Soldier's On

Good Morning! I hope that you all had a great weekend! I may not have made it to the salon, as I spent the weekend taking care of our recovering babe, but a lot of progress was made in the bathroom, and that makes me just as happy. 


Have I ever told you how dedicated B is to what he does? Well he is! The man works all day, comes home at night and still motors away on the bathroom. Needless to say, since last week's post on the bathroom, he has made some serious progress. Another quick look back on where we left off...

Last Wednesday night, after dinner, B headed back upstairs to get to work. The first thing he took care of was to finish installing all of the cement board on the front of the tub and the area around it. Then, he switched his focus to the floor. 

One of the big problems we had with the bathroom before, was how cold the floor was, especially in the winter. We always vowed that when the time came to renovate, we would install in floor heating. So my friends, the time has come and last Wednesday night, the heating system went in... 

It's only on a portion of the floor, because there is no point installing it in area's we will not be standing on, like to the side of the toilet or under the vanity. Who knew a bunch of wires stapled down to sub-floor would excite me so much! I can already imagine coming out of my nice warm bath (with a glass of wine of course), and stepping onto that scrumptiously warm floor tile! Bliss! Okay, enough daydreaming and back to the work at hand. With the wires down, B's next step was to poor out a floor levelling substance, that ensured we had a nice level surface to get our floor tile down on...

Thursday evening, he was just as busy, measuring and cutting the Ditra-mat, and mudding and taping the walls. 

He had the best intentions to accomplish more on Friday, but family came first. Halle seemed to be nursing a cold all week, but when she had us up all hours of the night on Wednesday and Thursday screaming and crying, we became more concerned. Friday morning I brought her to our family doctor, who told us he thought it may be Norwalk. So Friday was completely reserved for family time cuddles... and catching up on much needed sleep.

With Halle more or less back to her normal self on Saturday, B and my Dad got back to work. They started off with some work in the ceiling. Moving the location of our main light fixture, as well as the vent fan.

With that work done, it was on to the big stuff - floor tile. I can't even begin to tell you how exciting it was to find out we were getting floor tile! They worked all afternoon, laying the Ditra-mat, measuring, figuring out the tile placement, and finally, getting that tile down on the floor...

{Putting down thin set to lay the Ditra-mat}

{Ready for the tile to go down}

{Our lovely 12x24, light grey tile! Oh how I love it}

And that just leaves us at where they left off on Saturday evening. Sunday my parents were over once again, helping out with everything. I'll be back to share more on Wednesday. This bathroom is finally all coming together!

Did you accomplish a lot this weekend? I'd love to hear what you got up too!