01-19-2016, 02:26 PM
Funny tongue in cheek rant: For 2+ years my wife has been waiting for me to get the time to gut and remodel our two old bathrooms that are 1986 vintage. I've been promising to do them since our main add on/remodel in 1996. I've been plucking away at making the vanities for the rooms, the medicine chests and the doors and trims. I wanted all that stacked up in the storage room ready for when I started tearing things out.
6 Months ago I said "Christmas vacation is go time! Have your lights (sconces), foo-foo accent tiles, and plumbing fixtures (faucets and showers) picked out by Thanksgiving so we can order them. She never could find what she wanted and she did not look all that hard. I reminded her that Christmas was go time and she had better be ready!
Christmas came and she was not ready but I was so downstairs bathroom #1 got gutted! Two days and it was down to bare studs and OSB subfloor. I told her "get cracking!". She has been looking, but she is not getting a sense of urgency.
Flash forward to now and I am just about to the point that without the shower trim kit picked out I can't put in a valve for it and set the shower base. I also called my drywall guy and got him warming up in the bullpen because he is often booked out 1-3 months.
I just sent a text to my wife that she is now the official holdup to her remodel. No progress will be able to be made after about another hour of work on my part because she does not have the shower faucet picked out.
Oh it feels good to be giving the ribbing back to her after all these years of hearing "when are we going to remodel those bathrooms? What's the holdup? Why can't you get going on those."
6 Months ago I said "Christmas vacation is go time! Have your lights (sconces), foo-foo accent tiles, and plumbing fixtures (faucets and showers) picked out by Thanksgiving so we can order them. She never could find what she wanted and she did not look all that hard. I reminded her that Christmas was go time and she had better be ready!
Christmas came and she was not ready but I was so downstairs bathroom #1 got gutted! Two days and it was down to bare studs and OSB subfloor. I told her "get cracking!". She has been looking, but she is not getting a sense of urgency.
Flash forward to now and I am just about to the point that without the shower trim kit picked out I can't put in a valve for it and set the shower base. I also called my drywall guy and got him warming up in the bullpen because he is often booked out 1-3 months.
I just sent a text to my wife that she is now the official holdup to her remodel. No progress will be able to be made after about another hour of work on my part because she does not have the shower faucet picked out.
Oh it feels good to be giving the ribbing back to her after all these years of hearing "when are we going to remodel those bathrooms? What's the holdup? Why can't you get going on those."
