The vanity has arrived…

For those few people that might be following the progress of the never-ending master bathroom project. The vanity did arrive, well, almost all of it. The doors are not yet stained, but the cabinet is, and I think it look beautiful…

Good Bye Time Warner Cable…

don’t let the door hit you in the ass…

Meghan and I decided to pull the plug on Time Warner Cable. We’ve had too many bad experiences with them since moving into the house 10 months ago, that we decided to give satellite a try.

Many houses in our neighborhood have satellite dishes on their houses. A lot actually. So we took the plunge.

Dish installation was pretty much flawless. About 2 1/2 hours. The guy was friendly, informative, and honest about all the options and our decisions. We lost our signal once or twice a couple of hours after install, but it has been fine since. It is taking a little time to get used to, like channel numbers. Comedy Central was 67, now its 112 or 240, or something.

We went with the bundled AT&T DSL and DISH package. Of course this meant we had to have a phone line turned on at the house. We were a cell-phone only house. Actually we still are, the DISH and the DSL are the only things plugged into the phone jacks. It took about a week to get the order straightened out. But installation was about 20 minutes, and all 3 computers were surfing on the wifi network.

So after all this work (I had to install 2 new phone jacks, and run 2 new lines, and yes, I did do this myself) and having a DISH planted on our roof we are going to save about $30-40 per month (we even get 3 months of free DSL) for the first year, and about $20 a month the second year.

Good bye Time Warner and your inflated, ever rising cable costs… and so far, good riddance.

Bathroom Workday photos

Here are some photos of the bathroom as of the last work day:

This is looking at the new shower area.

This is a view of the new framed out closet, the shower fixture plumbing.

A view of the framed out closet from the other side of the room.

Bathroom Vanity Workday #3

The frame has finally come together. Next is the shelves, and the doors. Then it is time to stain. It is so exciting seeing this vanity come together. My uncle is a true genius when it comes to working with wood.

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Bathroom Workdays 12 & 13

We keep getting closer and closer to the end.

After last weekend, and last night we are moving along.

The plumbing is all done. drains are in. Hot and cold water lines are in. Shower plumbing is in place. No more plumbing work needed.

I got the new baseboard heater hooked up. Glad I got the Home Depot book on Electrical work because the instructions that came with the heater were 100% useless.

Drywall has started to go up and cement board has started to go up around the shower. I have included this diagram of how we want the new tile shower to look. Should be cool (I hope).

Tonight we should finish the drywall and start thinking about tiling the floor… to be continued