Bathroom update

So the bathroom is *almost* done. My hands are dry and white from grout. Part of the ceiling is in, amazing! Stay tuned for a guide to working with slate because I have learned a lot putting this together.

So we have been working on the bathroom for over 6 months now. What started as a remodel quickly spun out of control as is becoming the standard with each room we look at. We decided in the beginning that we wanted to have a wet room, but then we added on a (non-load bearing) rock climbing wall. Then rock shelves for soap and shampoo, then a massive shelf for the petrified wood sink. The bathroom is quickly evolving into a true cave, and conforming to our epic standards that have been applied to the office (penny floor, distressed textured paint and stain, see the posts about it.)

So we got a very custom sink, and PaGyver managed to pick up some rocking shut off valves for the sink from a company called CA Faucets. Basically they are 3/4" quarter turn valves with very long stems that can be cut to length. The idea behind these is that I will tap the stems into a rock, and have the rock be the shutoff handle. The same concept is used in the on/off valves for the shower and the dual shower heads.

I have "refurbished" the toilet. It will still have the "water closet" top down style but a trip to home depot has updated all of the guts. No longer is the crazy rusted upside down U joint necessary. We have replaced it with a slightly modified flapper valve. The problem with my modifications is that the overflow tube isn't present in this old a toilet so if the intake malfunctions, it will overflow and test out wetroom! I may in the future build a new U pipe but for now this will work fine. The only other modification was that I needed a counter weight to keep the chain from lifting the flapper. This was done with a rock epoxied to the other side of the lever arm. Fits the style and works well in testing.

The other cool twist I put on put on the bathroom was to slice 90 degree slabs off of rocks and cement them into the top corners. I had to cut the slate custom around them but it looks very cool. Still need to grout it in.

Whats left until we have the coolest bathroom on the planet:

• Sink faucet arrives and is installed.
• Ceiling green board installed.
• Toilet mounted on floor with "WC" mounted on wall.
• Tiling on west wall finished
• Grout finished.
• Electrical connected and lighting installed.
• False rafters installed with mushroom plugs pre-drilled (will be a post about this)
•  Window fixed and re-installed.
• Slate slab cut and door jam installed (this will keep water from flowing into the bedroom should it splash by the door.