Bathroom Renovations Don't Have To Be Expensive

Today I'm going to show you the simplest, fastest, most waterproof and durable durable product on the market, and it's vinyl, but it's not the vinyl you're thinking of. Today we will not be doing vinyl planks. Today I'm going to show you sheet vinyl and The reason is because we've been using it for over 100 years. It has a waterproof guarantee. You can install it with a utility knife and nowadays they make the backbone so it's called Loosely, which means you don't need adhesives under the floor. what you

have

to do is remove the accessories from the socket, put them in and that's it, so let's go through the process real quick because there are a few things you need to know to ensure success, let's jump right into this.

Let's get the toilet sink out of here. It is important to note that before starting a project like this where plumbing is involved, you want to turn off the water to the house if you are unable to do so. At least close the shutoff valves tight and be prepared for whatever most sinks are installed, they are bolted to a strange frame, it's not hard to tell the cabinet went in before the plumbing. Now, that seems to be it for the bras, what we

have

here. It's a very traditional installation where they rely on gravity and silicone, so we have to release the silicone seal.

Hopefully it will be right around the sink and not behind the sink. Yeah, there we go, that's simple guys. Well, it was easy. Wow, okay, nasty, okay, here we go, here's a great way to test and see if the water is actually turned off, if the pressure is out of your system and if this particular valve, if it can't turn off the water , it really works correctly. on a bunch of paper towels soak up the water come back and check in a couple of minutes and see if it bubbles back up as long as the valve stays empty you know we're in good shape so far very good next step to installing a new vinyl floor like this we want to remove all our casings and baseboards, we don't want to have to cut everything in the room, it's better to put everything back on top.

I have to buy a new baseboard anyway because I extended the

bathroom

to add the shower so in this case we're just going to slide the bar in here and see if we can get this out without damaging it because I wouldn't mind being stingy and reinstalling it later yeah , and you will. Notice that everywhere in this house, near the floor, there is a little mold growing, which is a consequence of this building being here since 1980 without air conditioning. I don't know if this one can be saved. There is too much attention. There we go, okay, so it's very important to make sure that you cut the caulk and the drywall paper like I'm cutting it like this because I don't want anything that's still attached to that wall panel to become a problem and the shape.

That becomes a problem if I remove it and I haven't cut it deep enough, then the paper will peel off and then I'll start repairing and patching and priming everything again and we want to avoid all that. Now I'm just looking for the nails, it's a great opportunity right now to finish cleaning the wall, pull out the nails and then spray prime all this mold, we don't have to cut it out, what we're doing here is eliminating the opportunity for this to continue to grow. knowing that now that we have air conditioning in this building it needs to stay dry and that will seal the mold growth from coming back.

I've said it before, but when you do demolitions, you're removing things. take the time to finish the prep work for the next stage when you bring it back, you don't want to get to the end of this job and then go, oh, I have to deal with all these nails now, okay, so what? What I'm doing now is putting a raised cut on the floor because we're just transitioning from the door and here we go, we want the transition right in the middle of the space between the door jamb and the edge. Okay, that's what we're going to remove and we can make it more precise later if we need to, but now it's time to remove the rest of this ugliness.

We'll start again here. The cool thing about this is that we actually have two stories that we're putting up, so we have vinyl on vinyl, isn't that pretty, huh, come on, who doesn't want that in their house in this situation? I don't know what will be easier, take them both together. Okay, or one at a time, a bunch of foreign staples. Wow, when you're doing a demolition like this, we have to choose how we're going to bring back the new floor, okay, because it's going to affect what. Now we do it traditionally, we will install a laminate vinyl floor over what we call luon or finished plywood.

This is a spot here and they nailed it so they pulled up the floor and then stapled it knowing they were going to put a baseboard on this. It is OSB and I installed it as a flush extension to the existing floor to install this vinyl. I need a nice smooth surface so I have two options: one, I can come back with another sheet of Luan and I can staple and cut it. but I understand that this

bathroom

is now a little over eight feet and a little wider than four feet, which means two sheets of quarter inch plywood on one side and where I am in the market now it's 70 per sheet plus tax, so it ends up being almost 200 dollars just for the plywood and staples, that's more money than I want to spend on the entire floor, so my solution is to rip this whole thing out and go back some more. floor leveler to create a nice, smooth, solid surface that I can lay my floor on, so since I am using a floor leveler, the problem is solved, let's move on, yes this won't be easy, but everything will work out, Alright.

That took a little bit of work, as you can see, there's a lot of area here that we can't lift. They really use a lot of adhesive in this area. What we are going to do is simply vacuum and clean. this looks great and then we're going to mix our floor leveler and first we're going to apply our multi surface adhesive primer that way everything will stick well and we're not going to have cracks in the level or over time thank you the cleaner it is the floor, the better the adhesive primer will work now this is just primer this is a multi surface adhesive primer this particular one is the same Excellent hold for my payment most tile suppliers anyone who has my payment product line will have this Good , this can be as thick as you want, it can actually become part of the leveling system, if you like what it does, it also seals a lot of the holes that the floor leveler would end up going down, so you can get it thick enough , put a fan on it for an hour and then it will be dry enough. put it with floor leveler.

Alright guys, now that the primer is dry, we're going to run with my foam and the goal here is just to seal. clean the areas under the drywall where the floor leveler could go right under, find a crack and then just walk away, this will ensure that the material placed on the floor stays on the floor and doesn't end up on the ceiling below, now the Thumb is almost healed, I'm just going to trim off the excess and that will keep the floor leveler from going down the gap between the piece of plywood pie, so I'm using Nova plan plus as my floor leveler again.

It's a Mapei product, this particular product. The entire bag is mixed with five liters of water and that's just a little over a gallon of paint. I'm going to try to use about half a bag here because today, instead of using my big slow mixer, I'm going to use my regular drill and we'll just put it on the drill and attach my big mixing paddle and see how well it works by mixing half a bag at a time. just for the purpose of letting you know if I feel comfortable using this. half a bag of product could save you the trouble of spending $150 on a slow blender, so I need about half as much as normal, here we go.

I don't think I have enough product here for now, but we're going to start mixing and see where we end up here, so it's working well. I have a number one speed right now, I still have to control the power because it's probably too much fiber to mix. I'm going to pour a little more product. here that's a better representation, you can see at this point it's acting more like a thin layer, it's too thick, it should be quite runny, you'll see just a little bit of water here we go, that will be the consistency that I'm looking for now according to the instructions, we'll give you two minutes to set it up, so I'm just going to prepare a couple of tools.

My goal here is to get a flat surface, it's nice and simple that way. I will use the least amount of products I can to achieve that goal here we are. I'm going to use this V-notch trowel. We're going to start at the back corner and spill a little bit that way. I can keep control over what happens, same thing, I always work straight ahead, but facing the door and we'll just push it into the corner, okay, and then we'll pull it back, push it in, pull it back. , don't worry about getting it perfectly in the corners, remember we're going to add baseboards so I'm going to keep removing it until I reach the desired thickness where I know it's going to be smooth when I'm done, that's where the V trowel comes in handy, but you can direct it to that you can create little ramps, it will only be level if you rake it with a V notch and then let all the grooves settle back in, we'll give it a couple of hours to dry. a fan and then we can install our floor, so now that the leveler is dry, the next day, give it a good sweep and make sure the floor is as clean as possible.

It's all about prep and big spiders, now you'll notice I've removed the door frames and all the baseboards and we're ready to lay the floor. Really, all you have to do is take it out of the package and then roll it up like a parchment to get started. through a door, but since this side is so close to a wall, we just did a single roll and now we're going to demonstrate how to lay this type of floor just to give you an idea if this door opened up to three or four feet of floor on each side, you can roll it up like this and then you can open it in both directions.

Now the new Oriental vinyl sheet flooring does not require glue, let's find our place, it is also about half an inch. shy for all the space, all we are going to do is cut the vinyl and then place it into position. Yes, it's actually that easy. I'm going to use some vinyl seam sealer. Cut the corners. Cut it flush. What I'm going to do is find this corner right here. Let me put my knife on the shape and make a raised cut now because there's a wall. Actually, I'm going to cut the entire floor here all the way. medium I'm looking for this relief cut right here, let's meet the chair.

I'm going to use my finger to make a weird seam. We're going to find our toilet flange here, we're just going to rub it around with the knife make a little crease in the floor an identification mark try to cut inside that mark it's best to cut short and then continue the second time okay, okay , make sure everything is relaxed and in the correct position because now we can cut tight to the flange press it against the wall the reason this works so well is because we haven't added the baseboards yet so we have an incredible amount of Mercy available here for us we came up short nevermind now I have to trim the plumbing here it's a little tight it doesn't have a wrinkle so we want to make sure we trim it close to the edge of these fixtures so it doesn't cause wrinkles on the floor when we are all there.

All said and done, here we're going to add silicone beads to close this whole thing up, which is how it becomes waterproof, so now we're just going to reinstall the same casing again when you're nailing, guys, try your Best thing to do is put the nails in an inconspicuous place like that. Okay, if you know that across the surface of something you have a patch, The Living Daylights comes off every time you see your wrinkle and your material, it's easy to fill in, you can tell the last one that put it on. That surface is proud, right, you can see, it's very easy to see, okay, done, here we go guys, the last few steps, pulling the molding and then we're going to do it right when you nail the Screech, you can cheat and use the caulking, how are you? nail filler now the order from here is really simple baseboards hammering sand between the layers because there's only one layer of paint so we sand the layer and then we come back and we're going to paint all the trim we're going to install the vanity sink the faucet, make all those plumbing connections and then we'll take out the silicone, when we're done, we'll seal the vanity to the wall and we'll seal the shower to the floor nice and simple, let's just jump in.

Let's go ahead and install the band because there are some tricks in here that I think you'll want to see and we'll make your life easier here the last time I was in the store I was looking for my sink shark bite accessories because we installed new plumbing and they didn't have them. what I wanted, which was here where it enters and then goes up, they would only have the line, yes,They would work, blah, blah, blah, but the point is that they aren't. They will work well and will take up the entire room with the flexible hose.

I decided to fix that today foreign water is not supposed to be available hmm Matt, why is my water line fully pressurized. Can you open the sink line? Please yes, is there water there? Yes, is it slowing down? I'm in some rubble, get this bucket outside quickly. I can only hold this line, so let's enjoy this. moment because this is funny oh I'm trying to figure out why so much water keeps coming out. Can you turn off the hot water tank please, that must be the supply line as it is gravity fed and higher than this.

It's going to drain through this line even though it's a cold water line, it's going to back up into the system, here we go, it's still running, but that doesn't mean I can't install my shark bite, here we go, so come on. something to hold on to here has been pushed too hard and that's it, we'll probably have a very similar scenario here, won't we? Yeah, no, okay, it has to have something here because there's nothing on the wall to hold this line. By pushing all the way in, you won't have good contact. Well, as you can see, I made a little mistake when I was doing the plumbing.

Lucky for me, this floor is 100% waterproof. 100% of the time you will never have to worry. your setup because there are no joints okay we're doing good we've been having power issues today so I turned this on just in case because it's really dark outside we're having thunderstorms you can see the wall isn't level there's a manner. To overcome that, yes, they have these little plastic ones, we'll get rid of the ones on the back. The reason they have little plastic feet is because it is a cabinet made of particle board, which is not the strongest substance in the world, but it is a great value, so now I am playing against the wall, a word of warning because now the back corner is on the floor, when it comes time to put all the silicone and everything you want, you want to take some clear silicone and just throw a bead. there right next to it and then on the baseboard in case there is water on the floor that you don't want to absorb into the cabinet.

Oh, I bought this faucet for no other reason than the fact that it was the cheapest. the shelf of course, that means it doesn't come with the extensions. I also had to measure the vanity, it comes with its own top and believe it or not, there are three standard sizes for the holes, this is what we call the four inch offset. You see how it works, it's a faucet with a four-inch offset. You can also get a faucet with a single hole, but then you have to have that ugly decorative plate because it's pre-drilled. Another option is a faucet with two eight-inch holes and two individual handles with an eight-inch offset.

Hoses, like a connecting piece on the back, are typically two to three times more

expensive

and are really only found on very old sinks, so the four-inch ones are the most popular if you're buying a solid surface countertop. new. You can always get the option for a single hole, but when you buy cabinets with pre-made counters, they almost always come with a four-inch offset, not always, so be sure to pay attention that you will want to know exactly the finish from the beginning right before you Go buy your faucet or you buy the wrong one, here we go, okay, now to make life easier, grab the hose lifters now, when you go to the store, there are two types of raspberries, there are faucet lifters and hose lifters. lavatory.

They both have the same 3 8 connection on one end, but they have a different connection on this end, so the faucet risers are designed with a gasket for this toilet. Toilet risers have a much larger end and are designed to go on the underside of the toilet. and they just screw on, they come with gaskets already installed so you can finger tighten them once you've tightened them, you know the gasket made contact, give it a couple of quarter turns, nothing too big, you're not slowing this down with all. your strength this is not a brass on brass arm you're letting the gasket do all the work and then what we're going to do is leave this in place you see everything's a little jiggly I'm going to put some clear silicone on that wall and put this counter right there, here we go, this doesn't have to be perfect, it won't be visible it doesn't even have to be clear, I like it clear in case it is.

The squeeze on this particular counter is designed to be flush plus maybe an eighth of an inch on each side. Alright guys, we're using the same fan and the same grille, but they get old and start to turn yellow, so here's a great bench shellac product. It's a white shellac base paint, not oil, it's next level, it's a max sealed stain, so I don't care why it changed color, it's okay, we're just going to give it one coat of this that we're going to use. a leftover cardboard box from the dresser that we tried to take out from a couple different angles, boom, okay, let it dry, we'll glue it up tomorrow, perfect every time, so we installed all the decorations, everything is put together and now we're ready.

Simply hit the walls once more for a second coat of sanding between coats of paint. Remember that there is no point in painting the room until you have your vanity ready. Here we go and then you guessed it, the last coat of paint, but here it is. coming now you know I always have people asking me what color paint you're using Jeff, this one in particular is spot on, it's a C2 color, my favorite paint, don't forget that if you want, you can order it online in the United States. United States and they will ship it directly to your home and you will get a 20% discount that we organize for you.

Well greetings. One thing I might mention is to never be scared if you put paint on the wall. not the color you expect look how different it is wet vs dry some colors get darker or lighter when you apply them so if you are not sure if the color is right let it sit for about an hour wait until dry and then you'll know here we go, so we'll give everything a second coat. Now we love to paint from within the brush.