The Hall Bathroom

So, this resolution has been on my list for 2 years now.  I keep saying that I am going to write about what happened in this bathroom.  Today is the day.  I am going to tell the tale of the hallway bathroom.

We bought this house from my in-laws 10 years ago.  They picked up what they wanted and moved out - leaving us with a house full of trash and a promise that they would "fix" everything once they moved out.   Our friends call this place "The Money Pit".  Since the day we've moved in here, we have thrown good money after bad, and spent money we don't have trying to make the place liveable.

Anyway - onto the bathroom fiasco.  This particular disaster began several years ago - we'd been in the house a little over a year at the time.

We have a 2 bathroom house,  1 bath in the master bedroom, and 1 in the hallway, that the kids share.

We were sitting in the kitchen one evening, eating dinner, when we heard a horrific crash from the back of the house.  We rushed back to the bathroom to find that the walls in the shower had collapsed.  Thank heavens none of the kids were in there at the time!

This is what the bathroom looked like:

Tiles in the tub.

At first, we thought "all" we were going to have to do was put a new tile backer on the wall and then put the tile back up.  Wrong.

Mold - scary black mold and mildew had built up between the walls, under the tile.  This is an idea of just how bad it was.  That wall that you see is the wall to daughter's room.

 

So, we moved daughter out of her room, sealed off that end of the house, and had contractors come in to remove the affected drywall and do mold remediation.  Once it was declared safe, husband decided that he could finish everything himself & save some money.

He slowly got the drywall back up in her room.  Within 12 months, she was able to move back into her bedroom.  (During this year, she had her bedroom set up in the dining room.)

But, the bathroom was a different story.

He replaced the drywall - but he never took the yellow tile off that the contractors said did not need to come off.  We put in a new tub - but the plumbing doesn't line up, and he can't figure out how to fix the plumbing so that it works.  There's no tile backer around the tub yet.  He keeps saying he's going to put "something" up, but it hasn't happened yet.  For several years now, we've had a non-functioning bathroom.  Oh, wait - the toilet works - and the sinks - but we have 5 people sharing 1 shower right now.  (I know, first world problems, right?)

Pictures of the bathroom in its current state:

That's styrofoam between the studs.  It's to replace the fiberglass insulation.

A view from the sink area.  Don't you just love all that yellow tile?

You see the solution that failed - adding a row of white tile on top of the yellow tile to seal the raw edge.

Moral of the story: NEVER buy a house from your in-laws.  (Do you think they've helped us fix anything in here?  Seriously?  If they had, don't you think we'd have that bathroom finished by now?)

I do have affiliate links in several of my posts. From now until we fix that bathroom, any and all money raised through my affiliate links is going to go into the "remodel the hallway bathroom" fund.  So, for those of you who click on a link, or buy something from one of my links, all I can say is:  THANK YOU!!!