Remodeling a Small Bathroom in a Log Home Part 14: Placing the Copper Bathtub

Having completed soldering all the seams of my custom copper bathtub, I was now faced with the most dreaded part of the project: fitting the newly made copper bathtub into place.
I had build both portions separately – independently of each other relying solely on the figures and calculations that I had scribbled across numerous sheets [...]

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Remodeling a Small Bathroom in a Log Home Part 13: Soldering the Copper Bathtub

After completing making all the tabs, bends and seams for my custom copper bathtub in the last installment, now came time to solder all the seams together making it water-tight. If all of my calculations are correct, when finished I should be able to drop the copper down snugly into the bathtub base.
I had [...]

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Remodeling a Small Bathroom in a Log Home Part 12: The Copper Bathtub Layout

I had finally worked out in my head how I was going to make the custom copper bathtub while finishing up installing the tub base in the last installment of this project.
When I first started the bathroom remodeling project I had decided that the best way to move forward was to make a [...]

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Remodeling a Small Bathroom in a Log Home Part 11: Installing the Copper Bathtub Base

After the final glaze had been applied to the plasterwork above the tub in the last installment, I had to turn my attention to placing the tub base into its final position.
The 6′x3′ tapered box would be attached to the floor and side walls and padded with vinyl underlayment to as to provide a slight [...]

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Remodeling a Small Bathroom in a Log Home Part 10: Preparing the Walls

Still procrastinating on hammering out the copper for the tub I turn my attention to preparing the finish for the flat walls. Earlier I had made quick work of laying the backer board for the tile floor as described in my previous post but wanted a bit more time before I had to contend with [...]

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Remodeling a Small Bathroom in a Log Home Part 9: Preparing the Floor

It was now time to prepare the floor not only for the tile, for which I still search, but so that I can place the superstructure for the copper tub which was built in the last installment.
Laying the floor was actually quite simple. Long ago I had removed the ugly pink tile left over from [...]

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Remodeling a Small Bathroom in a Log Home Part 8: Building the Bathtub

It is now time to turn my attention to building the first part of my copper tub: the wood support. In the last post in this series I had finished up rewiring some old antique elk antler lights.
Although I have made some small things out of copper including a counter top and sink for [...]

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Remodeling a Small Bathroom in a Log Home Part 7: Rewiring Elk Antler Lighting

In the last installment I had run new wiring for my hanging elk antler lights as well as the under-floor radiant heat. Now it was time to rewire the antique antlers.
Before I found the antlers I had looked at a number of different lights none of which I really cared for. At one point [...]

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Remodeling a Small Bathroom in a Log Home Part 6: Electrical Wiring

After finishing with the insulation as described in the last post in this series, I needed to concentrate on running new electrical wiring from under the main part of the house under the existing bathroom floor, through the foundation. The new wiring would then need to run up behind the interior log wall where [...]

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Resource for Boric Acid

In many previous posts I discuss the use of boric acid during the process of replacing chinking, repairing logs and have identified several other uses where borates should be used as well as methods of application.
Boric acid works well as a wood preservative — it kills mold, mildew as well insects and is very useful [...]

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