Advice On Bathroom Remodeling
While you are remodeling your bathroom, there are several things that you need to keep your eyes open for. Before you start remodeling your bathroom, you should walk around and inspect the bathroom practically inch by inch. I don’t really mean that literally, but by giving an area that you are inspecting a quick glance as you are checking around the pipes and other things. This article is more for the do-it-yourselfers out there who like to do things for yourself in order to save money and to also give you the self respect for doing it yourself.
Water lines run up through the floor and sometimes exit out of the walls and different heights. These areas should be checked after you take down the tile or the drywall, to ensure you do not have to do any extra work while you are remodeling. Be sure to also check the drain pipes around the sink and bathtub, but particularly around the toilet base, sometimes the screws on the base of the toilet rust and should be replaced periodically. You should check around the shower to make sure the shower pipe has not done any damage to the wood behind the drywall. Next, after you get the knobs of the shower wall, put the knobs back on and see how easy or how hard it is to turn the water on and off. If you have had a constant drip that has been annoying and now would be a perfect time to install a new shower faucet.
The electrical outlets should also be inspected, sometime the wood around the outlets to make sure that the wood around them do not need to be replaced. If the electrical outlets are below the tile line, you will want to replace any thing that may be damage, unless you are going to replace the entire tile area including the walls, you should use extreme caution.
Check the widow sill for any type of aging or water damage, water does somehow get into these surfaces without being noticed, and can only be seen once you start remodeling your bathroom.
Around the bathtub, many times the walls will be nice and strong, but in the areas where the water runs down the sides and into the bathtub the chalking may have come loose due to the hot water. Also the steam from the shower can cause old chalking to crack. Putting new chalking down is no big job. Just remember after the old chalking has been pulled up, you want to make sure that the corners are as clean as possible before putting the new down. Take a small piece of thin flexible wood and with a utility knife cut off the point just a small bit, and after the chalking has been laid use the wood to run down the corner to take off any excess chalking. The rest will easily clean up.
When you take down the ceiling tile, or drywall be sure to check the wires from the lighting, and make sure all the caps that are screwed onto the light fixture are still secure, you may also want to unscrew them and make sure that all the wires are not burnt, if they are ok, then put the caps back on and make sure they are tight. Then check the studs for any damage of any kind.
Remodeling your bathroom can be a very rewarding job, and give you the prestige of doing it yourself, just do not forget to use these few tips and do a good job.
