Little Blue House: Episode IV – A New Tub

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If I could get the text on this thing to scroll and disappear into the distant space horizon I totally would. Alas, being that wordpress has not yet become as progressive as a movie from the 70’s, you will have to deal with witless commentary from someone who is entirely done with the idea of home renovation. No, we are not done with the house; just done with the idea. The upstairs is about 90% completed with flooring, doors, the works. We have not shown pictures yet because we wanted to leave the option for a full length motion picture reveal on the table.

I realize that it has been five or six months since our last blog post but I can assure you that we have a very good reason for that…

Well maybe not a very good reason, but a whole bunch of mediocre reasons.

Things have been a bit crazy for us lately. Last fall we decided to accelerate our house finishing efforts in response to a potential job change for myself as well as being completely fed up with cooking in a toaster oven and a hand-me-down electric wok. In response to that epic decision, we have been going full tilt ever since. I hope over the next week to catch everyone up on about where we are with at all but for this episode of the saga, we prepared a little time lapse video of our bathtub demo-ing efforts! We spare no expense here at LBH Studios. Cinematic gold.

Well, it would be, if there was actually an ending. Decided that moving a 350 pound cast iron tub precariously past an expensive SLR might not be the best of ideas… Maybe the next post I’ll take some photos of the en route to completed bathtub. Without further adieu…

After the demo I realized that the previous owner set all the plumbing fittings too high to set the tub directly on the floor. After a brief freak-out I decided that building a platform for the tub was the only reasonable way to fix the issue just short of demolishing the slab for about two or three feet. Once that was erected my dad and I muscled the 350 pound tub into place and awaited the drywall!

Until then,

Kellan

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