Master Bathroom - The Pide Piper

I figured it's been ages since ive even uttered the word 'Master Bathroom' and I know you all were just itching to find out what we have been up to as far as the bathroom shenanigans we have gotten ourselves into. Well... truth is. Not much. Ya I know. It's not coming along as fast as we expected but such as life.

Mainly we have been tied up with plumbing. You see before we started ripping away at the walls of the shower we knew that the plumbing that is in the dark depths below the floor, the piping would need to be fixed/replaced [you can read a more detailed of the whys and hows in this post. Long story short, between work, being Mom and Dad and other life commitments, we have made some progress.

First up, Josh had to order some parts off the internet and make a few trips to some locally owned plumbing/hardware stores. One thing he did order was a Manabloc Water Distribution System. With our attempts to conserve water, energy and reduce our overall carbon footprint, we went ahead with buying this system which he mounted under the house. basically it has a side for cold and a side for hot and it provides with increasing water and energy savings and no more of those early mornings where I have the shower running for what seems hours, standing there cold and naked with my hand under the water waiting for it to warm up [ya... not a pretty sight]. The Manabloc delivers water up to 4 times faster than 'regular' plumbing systems. Okay, okay... may only be 4 times faster, but hey, better than nothing!

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This is what the Manabloc looks like and each PEX pipe comes in to this Manabloc. Blue being cold and red being hot [obviously]. The Manabloc itself was just shy of $100.00 but in the end totally worth it.

Next up was fixing the pipes for the sink. Even though right now we are working on the shower, Josh wanted to go ahead and get all of the pipes done for the bathroom... with the exception of the jet-tub. We are going to hold off on re-doing those pipes until we start working on the tile that is currently around the tub [the access points are almost under the tub and as of right now we are not doing any more demo... until the shower is 100% finished]. Before we had almost no water pressure for the sink. It was like a trickle... if that. Josh installed the new PEX and also some shut off valves. Easy access in case we needed to shut the water off to the sink for whatever reason.

Since my last update we have finished about 75% of what needs to be done to the floor. The first layer is thin set, than Josh put the rubber matting down to form the 'shower pan'. Next up he has to put down some moisture barrier. Than the concrete board for the walls and than one last layer of thin set on the floor before we can finally tile.

So there you have the run down of whats been going on with our forever-ongoing Master bathroom project. I long for the day when I can wake up in the morning and take the few steps it takes to get to the nice walk in shower. For the time being we have become quite acquainted with our guest bathroom. So much so I might actually miss it once our bathroom is done....... [ha... ya maybe not].