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Sure, its pretty straightforward but still a lot of work. Just watch some videos online and check out the proper way to seal it all up before you apply the tile.

I decided to stick with fiberglass on each of mine for easy cleaning. I just did a tile surround on both to jazz things up.

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The biggest difficulty is getting all the things leveled out and reconstructed right given that what is often behind a fiberglass setup, isn't tailored to a tile surface. I had new subflooring, and some trusses put in, so I went way farther than most need to. However, once the sub floor was done, tile was a piece of cake. I chose to use a preform base, but even the styled that allow for a tile base with the shaped insert aren't too bad but have to be a little more cautious on due to moisture draining. I just sealed a base and gave an easier starting point for the wall tile. Also, don't expect to have a functioning bathroom for like 6-8 weeks of solid work haha.

Surrounds are ultimately so much smarter haha but I'm a picky bitch about it.

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wow that's nice!

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I have built Lots of showers at work, it can be done pretty easy but it's best to get a pre made shower pan with appropriate slope if u are not comftorable with mason products. If you want a custom layout or size you would need to have a sand shower pan installed with either a rubber liner or topical waterproofing. Good products make it easier and if you have any questions I would be glad to point you in the right direction speedfreak.

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^I'll have to remember that!

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Nothing major as of yet, but we need to optimize what we have so we bought a ton of storage boxes to get everything organized before we start tearing down walls and building anything.
Underestimated the cost and size of these suckers, but they are measured to use up all of the shelf space in the current storage room that will hopefully/eventually be a closet.
https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...a9&oe=5918FF37

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Thanks for the shower info guys, much appreciated. I'll pop back in with more questions if/when I jump in.

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Sure, I replaced a fiberglass shower and did all slate tiles like they have at Lifetime Fitness in their hallways. It's really not that bad, although I'd never do slate again. Any finished tile that has consistent dimensions would be much easier. I basically ripped off the sheetrock, replaced it with cement board, poured the floor pan and installed the drain, then tiled the walls up to the ceiling. It came out really nice, I miss that shower, I need to do it again in this house.

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The cheap slate tiles are very different in thickness and size, which sucks. I did slate floor and wall tile that ended up being much more uniform, turned out great. Love the slate look. Ill post some pics when I finish grouting the last little bit of shower surround.

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Because this happened last week:

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...0125171904.jpg

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...0126171648.jpg


I decided to redo the entire thing, and ended up with this:

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...0201171918.jpg


Long story short, the sink was full of water and for whatever reason the epoxy holding it up to the underside of the counter let go. The new sink now has some wood bracing to give it extra strength so it shouldn't be an issue again. Not pictured is the badass of all garbage disposals than can supposedly chew through bone while remaining quiet and vibration-free! The sink is a heavy-gauge SS304 with insulation and sound dampening on the underside of it for a nice solid sound and feel vs. the thin and tinny of the old one.

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Looks good!

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I moved back to the cities over the summer and am working on the new house. I bought a lot in Lino Lakes and can't wait to get back into my own place (living with the new wife with my parents while my dad builds us our new house).

thoughts? I like the garage :)

https://i.imgur.com/51wPiXx.jpg?1

https://i.imgur.com/IDqbVT5.jpg?1

https://i.imgur.com/IukqOM0.jpg?1

We are hopefully breaking ground in 3 weeks or so and trying to get it sealed up before snow falls. I think I fixed the scaling some.

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Nice looking house, excited to see it beyond the paper drawings :)

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Looks nice! welcome back to the cities!

What height ceiling in the garage?

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Welcome back! I am currently building in South Maplewood! Your plans look nicer than mine haha. I'll post them when I get a chance, very well styled sir!

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Nice build! Welcome back!

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Wow, floor plan looks awesome!
Congrats!
Where in Lino Lakes? I'm there a lot.
Also I'm guessing you got into the Centennial school district which is bomb.

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Thanks, me too :)

Thanks and not positive on the garage. I think the main floor is 9 feet. With part of the house over the garage I don't think the garage will get super high ceilings.

Thanks! It's in between Hodgson and Lexington off County J. It's almost circle pines but it's lino lakes there. And yes we did get into Centennial but for now Bella (who is 8) goes to school in Forest Lake at the spanish immersion school there.

Thanks man, I am excited too. Yea, post em up!

Thanks bud.

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Wow just looked at the floor plan again and its exactly what I want and the location too.
We need to have a drink soon since you are coming back to civilization!

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House plans look great! Garage layout is very similar to my old house. You'll like the extra room!

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Anybody know a good electrician? Looking to get some can lights installed and need wire run via the attic.

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We have someone we use(electrician), I'll try to remember to.add his info when I get home.

On that note, we are looking for a general contractor/company to do some updates to our house (bathrooms and moving some non structural walls).

Anyone know anyone good with reasonable rates?

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When you looking to have this done? My dad is a GC but he's a bit swamped right now. Depending on timing I am sure he would be happy to discuss this with you.

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Ended up getting a quote from a local electrician in the south metro, its about 150 per can light, and another 100 for the switch if needed. About what I expected, but I may try doing the kitchen myself and see how that goes since wiring and the switch are already there.

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Would like to get a quote and design rolling soon to get the ball rolling. We'll have some work to get rid of stuff and move stuff out of the way. Then would like to begin construction roughly February.

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I will ask him for you. If you want, shoot me a PM with some contact info and I can pass it on. He's building my house currently and has quite a few other jobs rolling right now but starting work in Feb would probably be a good timeline.

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Contact info sent. Thanks

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So I've gotten sick of the garage layout. Just kinda got shit done and didn't really think it thru very well. So I'm going to try and redo a lot, slowly but surely. We started by adding two windows which I'm in love with. Just lets in tons of natural light and you can open them to help get a breeze going thru the front of the garage. At some point once I clear the wall off in my back shop area, we will be adding a window back there too but not quite yet.

So next up now is the ceiling lighting. The garage came with 3 bulb sockets when it was built. So all I did originally is put in high wattage bulbs in two of them, and the one in my car shop area I put up an old shitty small ceiling fan that I painted black, and has 3 bulbs. The fan is so small and shitty that you don't feel any air movement even if you stand right under it, it's pointless. Then my father in law added some fluorescent lighting on the side walls a couple years back which is kinda nice, but I'd like to do something different I think as I just don't really like how it looks. I haven't completely decided if I'm keeping the fluorescent yet, but for now I am going to just focus on redoing the ceiling lighting.

Buddy with a Supra who lives a couple miles from me, his setup is so nice and sort of motivated me to do something. I did some researching and some shopping and went a lil overboard on the planning/layout lol. I ended up deciding I'm going to install 16 recessed cans in the ceiling. The old 3 bulb sockets will be removed and completely replaced with the can lights. Plus Menards is having a big lighting sale. 8 will go in my shop area as that's what I care most about being well lit. The other 8 will span the 3 stall garage to give it 'adequate' lighting.

So I picked up 4 packs of these:
https://www.menards.com/main/lightin...2225715&ipos=9

The plan is to put them on two switches so basically half of them turn on with one switch, and half with the other, that way if I don't want the lighting completely blasting I can have just half on.

Then, I'm going to add 3 Industrial type ceiling fans (56") to hopefully help keep some air movement going on in the garage. I plan to put all 3 on a single adjustable speed control switch. These are also on sale at Menards:
https://www.menards.com/main/lightin...0210352&ipos=2

I drew up a pretty accurate / to-scale drawing of the garage using SolidWorks. Some things may be an inch or two off here and there, but overall it's quite accurate. It shows the internal sheetrock dimensions, the 6" can placement, their overall beam width assuming 45* beam width and a roughly 11.5' ceiling height. It shows the 3 fan locations as well as stud locations, garage door openers, and garage doors at full up (wanted to make sure the last row of lights wouldn't be covered up even if garage was open).

The interesting thing is I did the math on wattage as I wanted to make sure I'm not overloading my current 15A lighting circuit. Assuming 15A @ 110VAC, I should be OK for roughly 1650W. So to be a little conservative I just said my limit is 1500W. I'll be using LED bulbs which are advertised as 9W (65W equivalent), so again conservative I just figured 10W x 16 bulbs = 160W total. Lol, not even hardly scratching the surface! Then the fans, I'm not completely sure but I believe they'll pull roughly 60W at full speed. Even if they pulled 100W, that puts me at 460W which still is only using barely 33% of the circuits rating. Comparing it to what I'm currently at, I calculate I'm currently somewhere around 700-800W. So overall I think it'll be quite the improvement, and still leaves me with plenty of room to either keep or add some extra fluorescent lighting or something.

So that's the plan, and planning to just do it slowly but surely over the course of winter.

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Very nice project, that'll be cool when its complete. Do you have any attic insulation above there? I'd love to do the same but I have a foot of cellulose type stuff on the ceiling that would make it impossible, or at least really suck. I have the standard three bulbs, and they're CFL so they take several minutes to warm up in the winter. Maybe I should just replace them with 100W equivalent LEDs.

Regarding circuits, they're rated at 80% of the amperage. So you could safely draw 12A on that circuit, or about 1300W.

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Yes it's full of blown in insulation. So I made sure to use IC (insulated ceiling) rated cans. Yes there will be a mess, haha.

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Here's a few before pictures that basically show the garage as it sits today. You can see the two single bulbs up front, and the one bulb socket in the car shop are that I hung a ceiling fan at. Anyway just a record of what it was before. I'll be starting on the new lighting soon.

I ended up buying four 4-packs ($40/ea) and thre 56" fans ($40/ea) and some house wire ($30). So in the end right around $300 worth of material.

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You inspired me to finally fix the dim cfl lighting in my garage, especially with winter coming and those things take a couple minutes to warm up. Nothing major but I bought 1600 lumen led bulbs in daylight color. Garage is twice as bright and I like the cooler color temp for the garage, no need for warm white out there.

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Also Murlo, love the garage layout, looks very familiar :)

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Friday night's after-dinner fuel for a Saturday of yard work:
http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...1013172058.jpg

Truck-mode (15 of 25 mulch bags):
http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...171050_HDR.jpg

Doesn't look like an overgrown jungle:
http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...1014171449.jpg

Reward for a job decently done:
http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...1014171536.jpg


Spread out 25 bags of mulch front & back, along with further continued the tree and bush trimming from last weekend.

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Cupcake ATM is genius!!

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It's downright dangerous being open 24/7! :D

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Looking good! TruckSTUFF! Those fries look amazing.

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Some of my favorites! http://jakesburgersandbeer.com/

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Thanks! I was looking at your picture and thought that looked familiar haha. I am excited to have enough room in my garage finally (if that is possible).

My house has had a few delays with the permitting process (i hate city workers) but I am getting a walk out basement out of it now so yay.

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You think it's big enough now. But it's just like horsepower, eventually you still wish u had more haha.