I finished my bathroom! It works! Note the hand made sink which is an old basket that I smoothed concrete into. Cut and paste....Kirk

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-- Anonymous, August 13, 2004

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very nice.

-- Anonymous, August 14, 2004

Wow! That's waaaay more than "very nice"....it's very excellent!!!! I love it, Kirk. The green looks great on the tub. I painted our downstairs clawfoot tub sky blue with white feet and the upstairs clawfoot will be rose with white feet. I'm still sanding on the dang thing though!! Harry and I both love bathrooms that don't look like bathooms. Yours looks very "comfy" :-)!!

-- Anonymous, August 14, 2004

Hey wow! Is that the same terlet that was sitting on the slab the last time you showed us a photo? Nice work!

Marcia - I got disgusted and took a wire brush on a grinder to take the kazillion layers of paint off of my claw foot tub. Took 3 brushes, but it sure as heck was a lot easier that the alternatives I had tried - paint remover, hand sanding, chipping with a putty knife. I wore long sleeves, googles and a mask - it was almost worse than grinding the old mortar out from between bricks so you can tuck point. Almost. Not quite!

-- Anonymous, August 14, 2004

The bathroom is beauteous,Kirk! Are you sayin the sink is painted concrete then? I love the red! And the green tub!

We just discovered that our new old house in the city is made entirely of concrete! At closing the sellers told us it was built by a stonemason, which kind of confused us at the time since it's just stucco, but upond digging around in Ali's room fixing some broken plaster on the wall, we found there was no lath back there, but concrete block! It's not like modern concrete block,all uniform and such, but it is blocks of concrete. No wonder the old thing has held up so well and stayed so straight and the basement is totally dry. I'm going to tell my insurance agent;hopefully we can get a discount since the structure is so fireproof. Our business building is made of concrete block too; we are bullet-proof!

Good to hear from ya, Kirk......wish you'd stop by more often!

-- Anonymous, August 14, 2004

Thank you.....thankyou

I exploded that other toilet dropping a rafter on it! Oops! Barb got a new one so she gave me the one in the picture.

The claw foot was used as a water trough so it was it terrible shape! The good news was the paint was about gone so it was a matter of sanding off the rust to paint. the inside really needs re-finished but I have other things to spend the money on. One claw is missing on the back side. Did you know a replacement costs 50 bucks? Proping it up is good huh?

Yea that sink is just a 25 cent basket that I patted concrete into. Sand, smooth, red paint, varathane, more red paint more varathane. I figured if it looked crappy I would use it for a bird bath?

The faucets are really old throw aways. They have to be 75 years old! I just love that old stuff!

Em someone must have hand made those concrete bricks doncha think? How thick is the wall? How old is the building do you know? You should get a sizable discount for a fireproof building.

......Kirk

-- Anonymous, August 14, 2004

That's amazing how you built that sink,Kirk! I am always envious of people who can make something beautiful out of seemingly nothing.

Our house was built in 1908, and yes, it is possible the blocks were handmade, although I haven't had a big enough view of them to be sure, and don't want to take apart more plaster to find out, curious as I am.

I'm going to call in a floor expert this week for the third floor. The yucky carpeting is topping ancient linoleum, not very pretty linoleum unfortunately, and underneath that is of course hardwood. Since old linoleums and/or the adhesives often contained asbestos, it may be prudent to leave it as is and cover with new wood floors, but I need expert advice on this one. Meantime,we are still working on plastering broken parts of Ali's walls.We have never done this before, so it is going slow.

-- Anonymous, August 16, 2004

Way cool Kirk!

I wanted an old tub when we built this house but had trouble with the modular company and general contractor so I just gave up. Now I'm jealous because I really wanted one.

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2004

Kirk, you are too much! Where did you get this idea for the sink?!!! Verrrry nice!

-- Anonymous, August 18, 2004

Dee those old tubs are really comphy! I was really surprised to find how few are left in California anyway. And expensive! 600 to 1000 for a decent old one! Almost all need re-finished which can add another 400 or so. Is it just California or are they getting scarce everywhere?

Sheepish...I started forming the idea when I looked at my checkbook!! Ha!.......Kirk

-- Anonymous, August 18, 2004