Does it self drain? But yeah I'd keep the pipe on the warm side of the insulation.
The rain head looks fun but I'd end up using the wall mount anyway.
My wife said the same thing, thought the big ceiling mounted rain head thing was just a fad.
Until the first time she used it. Now, she loves it.
It's my favourite thing about the new shower honestly. Well, that, and watching soap bubbles "disappear" into the tiny slot of the nearly invisible hidden tiled linear drain on the floor. For the bloody $600 it cost for that stupid feature, it better be cool LOL, but it did add a nice touch to the shower instead of the traditional cheap grill drain.
Anyhow, the bathroom is about 95% complete now. It's been a long path - the contractor we went with worked with me on a part-him part-me job - we had him do the shower conversion and all the tile work, as well as the new lighting and installation of a new fan. Then we bought everything else and I have been slowly working on finishing all the drywall, paint, and the toilet/vanity install and plumbing.
Full reno will end up at around just under $15K by the time it's all said and done, between what the contractor charged for his side of things, plus all the purchases for my side of the job. Sweat equity is free of course. But **** adds up fast, $600 drain here, $1000 bidet tankless toilet there, etc etc etc. But I'm still pretty happy with the final tab.
I'm pretty happy with how it's all coming together. Still a few finishing touches and furnishings left to put up (shelf above the toilet , window finishes, etc..and I think I'm going to do a tile in the gap between the sink and wall cabinet, the gap just doesn't look right), but I'm digging it.
Way better than the original builders special 1987 bathroom it replaced.
(Don't mind the painters tape on the ceiling, still working on the ceiling paint. And the rain shower head piping is still just temporary-like as well until the ceiling paint is done.
Yep, this drain option cost us an extra $600 LOL.
But, we liked it, and much like the front door story below..**** it, we gotta look at it for 15-20 more years before we sell, so do it.
Barely 2yr old 70” Samsung tv died yesterday.
I don't buy Samsung anything. If you want to read horror stories about the quality of some of their stuff, read up about their appliances.
It's to the point that a lot of reputable appliance dealers simply won't even sell them anymore.
Anyhow, on the TV front, We bought a LG 87" coming up on a year ago. Love the bejesus out of the thing every time I turn it on. The previous LG 54" Plasma we replaced was still working great, but I wanted 4K, so we upgraded.
I had to laugh when installing it however - I thought when I got rid of my old monstrosity 35" Tube TV long ago that the days of TV's that almost needed a forklift to move were behind us - all the new flatscreen stuff was so incredibly light. Well, from experience, I can tell you that when you get to the 80" class now, well, that no longer holds true LOL.
Shopping for a front entrance system , 54x100” , two side lights and arched transom window . So far a fiberglass door and nice glass , 1 st quote is $9100 bucks . Yikes .
Replaced our front door about 3 years ago. Smaller than yours, but we opted for one of the much more premium modern, well built, and very energy efficient ones. I think we ended up at about $7K by the time it was said and done. The door it replaced had no window and our front hall was like a dungeon. This made a massive difference in both appearance, and front hall natural light.
Yeah, we could have had something much cheaper installed, but like a lot of renos we're doing to the house, we figure it'll be another 15-20 years before we sell, so might as well spend the extra cash and install something we like instead of something that saved the budget but was just "meh".
