PROgress or REgress?

Plumbing work in the mechanical room, connecting the bathroom fixtures to the main house drain.

Digging in the toilet, sink, and shower drains.

I guess sometimes things have to get worse before they can get better. Such was the case with the basement bathroom rough-in. First, holes cut in the subfloor. Then, piles of dirt on the floor and eventually piles of dirt moved to the crawl space. Then I had to rip off all the drywall on the plumbing wall so that I could fur out the wall with 2x4s to accommodate the new plumbing and even out the surface of the wall since there's a bump out that won't work with the shower. All that work created mountains of dust and debris, which I hauled out at 1am this morning in six big trash bags.

Someday it will be done. Someday.

Psst...it's finally done! Check out the finished product here. You'll never believe it's the same room!