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Home Two: Bathroom Remodel

House two of the Elmwood project. Homeowners Pat and Roger Simons go over the goals of their bathroom remodel.
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Home Two: Bathroom Remodel

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" We found these mosaic tiles underneath. Asphalt on pieces of asphalt. And we think that there on marble and we want to say -- on all the things in the room this is what is most important. They've put up paneling which has to go they've put up a fake ceiling which -- ago. We know there's water damage we don't know how destructive the water damage has been and we won't know until we actually do that analysts."

" While we're doing all this we want to create better use of space and so we'll remove the washer dryer replace it with a sink with a fixture around with a table around it. New toilet will be in the same place. And the tub will be in the same place but they will be new fixtures that will blend better with the colors that we have on the floor. The window is a nice feature that we'd like to keep this part of the room. Which is where will be able to put our washer dryer part removing this fixture and the walls. We will have room for us affable washer and dryer behind there. And -- and also way utility table next to it all behind -- doors that keep it out of sight when it's not a youths."

" It's been an adequate bathroom we really look forward and making it into something very."

" Now fat. Have you really done all this demolition work just with a little tiny flat -- their own none at all now. Now what I am trying to save these tile OK now there's a wall of tiles here. That have been. Abused over the years by different remodel hours. What is it that your trying to save well."

" These are the original -- house and what I really like instant screen town which it's going to pick up."

" The colors that are down so this accident town there's two stripes of it that's -- is kind of like in all of green and you being a potter you can really appreciate. Absolutely and I think glaze is really special isn't it absolutely well. It's not easy to take it out the way this was installed."

" Because. It it's a thicker tile than the other house and so they actually pressed it into the cement and makes it almost impossible to get it out in one piece right pay."

" Agents is the only way to do it absolutely now down here though you've got some of the old asphalt tiles still on top of the mosaic and the mosaic is so beautiful it's really makes a lot of sense to try to save it absolutely and this is again -- of those things with a lot of patience. You you have to show me how you've been taking -- up where you -- weary and insulated. But it doesn't seem to have been laid down -- any really nasty glues just a little bit like. Most places everywhere it's like applying. Starr who OK well I'll give you handed him an -- in had -- Terry. And Terry you've got it's basically the rest of the demolition to do here which involves taking out all of these walls right."

" I think interior partitions that divided these three -- and I'm going to take those out and then we're gonna open this up to about sixty inches. We have two doors that we got into the basement right now we're going to clean up actually lived three doors that we're going to make two out and make a pair of opening doors here for a laundry closet. To have double doors that are original to the house here in -- on the outside. The old in the closet turns into a shallow and and then on the other side where we were removing this closet from there. Next door bedroom those get to work on it you can't keep. Us."

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