Basement Bathroom...

Derek and Xena

Derek and Xena

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Well, I finally finished with the basement bathroom. The rest of the basement is framed and drywalled. Now it's time to start mudding and taping, texturing, painting the bedrooms and rec room. I'm a landscaper and have the winter off so I have some time now to get the basement done. I bought my first house in August and got the $8,000 tax credit, otherwise the basement would still be empty!

Here's some photos, the room is only 5' by 6' floor space plus the shower so it's hard to get good pics.

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It's SO nice to have another bathroom! Now I can go downstairs to do my "reading" and not be bothered or have to wait for the bathroom for hours!!!
 
Nice Job!!! It sure is nice to have your own private library:) I like the accent tile above the tub surround.......good thinking!!!
 
Looks great Derek. Now you will be all set when the babies start coming, especially if they turn out to be girls. :>)
 
Looks great!! Is that a one pc tub unit? We ended up having to use a 4 pc unit for lack of a way to get ours in..
 
Thanks Dave! Actually, we have a boy coming around April first! Thank God I found this site so I can at least see other people's hunts and decoys, and boat projects!!! I'm afraid I won't be doing too much of that stuff for a while, so I'll just let you take care of it for me! I did take the first step and purchased some Devlin Mallard plans....so...it should be completed by, oh say, about 2020?!!!
 
Yep, it's a one piece tub/shower. Found it for $50 on craigslist and had to cut out a basement window to get it in. Had to frame all but one wall, slide the unit in, and then frame up a 2"x2" wall where all the drain/vent pipes come down from upstairs. It was well worth it! I just cut the flange around the window and then screwed it back into place and sealed it with spray foam once the tub was in. Definitely easier to do with an "unfinished" area.
 
I think you might have screwed up. I didn't see a rack for the Ducks Unlimited magazines....

Dave
 
That front page article about Stuttgart is all wrong this year. Hunted Bayou Meto over the holidays and saw few birds and lots o' water. Didn't hear any good reports around the area either. Steve, where are they????????
 
Nice job.!!!

While on the basement bathroom subject. I really owe my wife a powder room in the basement.

My situation is a little different and could use some advise. I’m on a septic system with the basement below grade.
I’m on the understanding I will need a special waste pump. Anybody have an understanding how these systems work. Don’t really want to be jack hammering the basement floor out if I don’t have to.
Thanks in advance
Tom
 
That is one huge roll of toilet paper sitting on the top of the toilet. Doudle ply it even looks to be. Must be the industrial stuff.

Mark W
 
What you will need is a grinder pump, you run your waste lines to this in a self contained unit and it pumps it up and out or over to the septic.. The one we put in our basement in Michigan was around $300.00.... We looked at Lowes and Home Depot but ended up buying at our local plumbing supply store.
 
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That is one huge roll of toilet paper sitting on the top of the toilet. Doudle ply it even looks to be. Must be the industrial stuff.
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Mark,

I think that roll is made for wise a$$es.
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Tom, it's actually not that bad to cut the floor and it may be cheaper than buying one of those fancy pumps that suck up your poo and chop it up. It all depends on how the drains run under your floor. They almost always pour over the drain for the shower in unfinished basements, don't know why, but they do. I asked a plumber where it should be and marked it on the concrete. I then brought home a 14" cut-off saw with a diamond blade and cut a square in my floor. I found the drain with a cap and some duct tape on it under the concrete I cut out. Unfortunately, the $50 shower I found on craigslist had the drain on the wrong side but it was still well worth it. I just cut another square on the other side and tunneled underneath and extended the drain. My floor had pea gravel under it so it was real easy to do. You have to dig out under the shower to fit the trap under the drain anyways. As long as you have positive drainage to the septic tank you're good, as we all know that sh*t runs downhill! Once I extended my drain over I poured the concrete back. It all gets covered by the shower so it doesn't have to be perfect. I actually mixed a bag of concrete and put a big pile (mix it THICK so it doesn't run all over) where the tub would be and set it in place and walked around in the floor to spread the concrete evenly under the floor. Then I made sure everything was level and screwed it to the walls. Long story short, make sure you don't have a drain under your floor before you purchase an expensive pump system!

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Oh, one more important thing I forgot to mention. Make sure you close of the area real good and cover all the cold air returns before you cut the concrete so you don't fill the upstairs with concrete dust like I did!!!
 
Use a light spray of water out of a garden sprayer to help keep the dust down. It help to have it damp to a tiny bit of standing water along the cut and to mist the blade a bit as you cut.

If you are using a gas powered saw.....don't CO yourself to a grave.


Matt
 
Matt,

it was a gas powered saw that I brought home from work! At least I opened all the windows and wore a mask! I cut pavers and retaining wall blocks dry at work everyday so I never even thought about water! A little late now!
 
After spending 20 yrs. as a Journeyman Plumber,and 11 yrs. as a Certified Plumbing/Building Inspector,I always love reading threads like this.
 
Curt, is that a good or bad thing?! Do they pour over drains in your area too? Why do they stub up the 4" for the toilet and not the 2" for the shower or tub?
 
Curt, is that a good or bad thing?! Do they pour over drains in your area too? Why do they stub up the 4" for the toilet and not the 2" for the shower or tub?
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We always build a 16" square box out of 2"x4"s and put it around the stubbed in drain at finished floor height, and fill it to about 1" from the top so that it can be located and easily broken out later,and,so you have enough room to get the tub waste and P trap on. The riser rough in for the WC has to be pretty close to finished floor height to get a flange on it, and they make a plastic cap set at FF height that can be cut out from the top when you are ready to set a stool. Sounds like your plumber was cheap and/or lazy.
 
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