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Finishing a Basement Bathroom – Part 9

The sewage ejector pump and sewer plumbing connections are made in this exciting episode of the project! Actually, I wasn’t looking forward to cutting open the sewer line to install the Tee-fitting for basement bathroom sewer hookup. As it were, it turned out to be a pleasant “dirty job”. Liberty Sewage Pump I bought a [...]

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Finishing a Basement Bathroom – Part 8

The plumbing connections to the main water lines are made in this part of the basement bathroom project. If I make a mistake and have a leak or a connection bursts, I could have a flooding problem and water damage. The T-fittings to the house mains for hot and cold water are indicated by the [...]

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Finishing a Basement Bathroom – Part 7

The shower valve, shower and hot / cold water supply lines are installed. Part 6 of the series is here. Shower Valve Installation To make the holes in the tile wall for the shower valve and shower head, I used a 3 inch and 1.5 inch diamond hole saws on a heavy duty drill. Cutting [...]

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Finishing a Basement Bathroom – Part 6

I’m almost ready to hookup the hot and cold water supply lines, but first I need to install the water shutoff valves for the toilet and vanity. BTW – you can read about Part 5 of the project here. The soldering kit is pictured below: Propane torch 4-in-1 wire brush Solder paste Solder wire Pliers [...]

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Finishing a Basement Bathroom – Part 5

This is Part 5 of the series. You can find Part 4 here. I set the tile in the shower stall first, beginning with the walls so there was no worry about dropping thinset mortar on the floor. The white dots are plastic tile spacers. The Latitcrete 255 Multimax thinset does an incredible job of [...]

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Finishing a Basement Bathroom – Part 4

The measurements and layout for the floor and wall tile are covered today.  You can read the posts here for parts 1, 2 and 3. I visited several tile stores and picked the Pietra Fiora porcelain tile collection by Casa dolce casa. I liked this tile because it was available in several sizes that I [...]

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