Insane Bathroom remodel- How to Build an indoor cave

Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] All right, if you guys have been following along, we added a 10x10 addition onto the back of my cabin and then we turned that into a cave. But it's a cave with a purpose. We added two showerheads inside of that room and then on the outside we added a third shower head. And so today we're going to be wrapping up the cave project by installing the flooring and doing some inwall lighting which is a little bit tricky. You're going to see that today. So without wasting any more time, let's get into it. All right, the bathroom is under construction. Our shower was just where that wood floor is. So we knocked out that whole wall, took the shower out, and then added a 10x 10 shower room. It uses molded rock. It's actually made out of dural liner, but it's impregnated with stone to make it actually look and feel like real rock work. Now, this room is 10x10. It has a vated ceiling with a skylight, two inside showerheads and one outside shower heads. We also mounted lights in the walls which was really difficult but these lights are from in light and they're designed to be outside so it's completely watertight. This flooring is by moisture shield. This flooring can actually stay submerged indefinitely without ever rotting or deteriorating. The idea to this room was to make you feel like you are walking into nature instead of walking into a bathroom. Okay, so we're putting the flooring in and it's not easy because we're picture framing around the outside of the cave. And the picture framing around the outside of the cave is especially challenging because the cave walls aren't straight. They're crooked and angled. And so to get this picture framing in, we have to do detail work. What you see Frankie doing right here is he's marking exactly what parts of the wall have to be cut. He's using an angle grinder to make the cut and then we can slide the flooring underneath. We're grinding out the actual stone work so that we can slide the floor in place. Can you slide that in? I want to show them how we've got this scribed. So, we're scribing the wall, not the floor. And you can see that we're able to slide the the whole board underneath. And then we'll silicone the wall to the floor to create a watertight space. So, another part of this build is how we're laying this floor in is gravity. It's based on securing the picture framing, but then the field, which is the inside stuff. There's no attachment to the floor cuz when you got it so tight, you don't need to. All right. So, here comes the test. You trimmed them up. That'll be our first one. Then we'll put one over here. That's about as tight as you can get it. So, I still want to probably tap on the that the that picture frame down. Screw it right to the concrete. Just the picture frame part. Just the picture frame. Yeah. So, that way all the corners will stay nice cuz this center part will have the drain beneath it. So, we want access to it and Yep. So, eventually if that ever plugs up, we can pull these boards out, get into the drain, and then cover them back up. Cuz this is meant to free drain. You're not supposed to see the drain. It's going to be hidden underneath the flooring, but these boards are not watertight, but they're waterproof. You can submerge these underwater indefinitely and it'll never hurt them. And they're comfortable on the feet. So, for a project like this, this would be exactly what I'm looking for. For me, I would consider this better than tile. We've been working on this project for 2 years. Yeah, we have. We poured this concrete 2 years ago. Yeah. Then we framed it and then we did little stuff here and there and it wasn't until 2 weeks ago that we hit it again hardcore. But we were thinking tile and the more I thought tile, the less I wanted tile. The problem is as soon as you get any moisture underneath that tile, this room's going to be freezing. And that tile, if it has any moisture underneath it, when it goes through that freeze thaw cycle, it bust loose. Bust loose. So tile, forget it. This stuff perfect for it. Another thing too is this whole floor is angled down to the center of that drain. But you can actually see that this board will flex as you stand on it, which is nothing wrong with it. Nothing wrong with that. That's that's the that's the other reason why we went with this stuff. Fanboy alert. I've used this. I would never go back to a wood deck ever again. Never. after actually experiencing it, living with it, building with it, this is the stuff for an outside deck, whatever you're doing, this is the stuff. So, if you guys are thinking about using it, it's moisture shield and uh highly highly recommend it. So, just to give you guys an idea, I'll show you a corner. It's been driving Frankie nuts. This corner right here, that's not up to Frankie standards. He's been working on that corner for at least 45 minutes. This one he's okay with, but that one he's not okay with it. I I'm okay with it. He's not okay with it. And he says he does not want to be seeing that. So, get it right. Right now, what he's doing is he's scribing to go around this Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] All right, guys. Well, it's one of those dirt to dirt moments. I bought an entire box of deck lighting to install in this project. And the reason I'm installing deck lighting, this is by Inlight, is because it's waterproof. You know, it's designed to be outdoors where it can be rained on. Well, this is a shower room, so what better to use, especially in the splash zone. Except I forgot I had it. And we put all the floor down. So, now we're yanking out the floor. And what I'm doing is I've drill I'm drilling holes in the rock so that we get the down lighting in. And now I've got take my arm up into this wall and grab the tail and pull it out. Hook up the splice. And now once I get this left out, I've got to run a wire underneath the flooring so that I can get all the lights to connect on the same circuit. Much easier if I have thought of this earlier. Okay, let me show you closeup of what I'm doing. You see these lights? They just disappear right into the rock. And so that'll be down like you'll never see it from up above. In fact, there's a light in that rock right there. But I'm going to show you. [Music] See these things by Inlight? They're nice. They just disappear. Here's another light. They get down and under. Well, the idea is it's going to light up the entire walkway coming in. And then I've got this center light that sends off 360° light. I'm thinking about putting that right there. See, that actually matches the deck material and that'll cast light around this entire corner. The only problem is I like lights. I like them a lot. Sometimes I go a little overboard. Be the first to admit that. In fact, I don't remember a time when I've gone underboard on lights. But we'll see. Maybe I'll be wrong and get it just right for once. All right. Well, I'm going to get one a light in the corner over here. Try to match it up on this wall across from it. [Music] Kind of the angle of the drill is the way the light's going to go. Pull the light out. All right. Where you at? How's that working? Um, getting all the pigtails ran right now. Oh, good. You got fish tape. Frankie bought over fish tape so we can fish the wire. So, do you guys remember when I said I'm usually go crazy and put too many lights in a room? Well, on this interior lighting to light up the pathway, I don't think I put enough in here. I'm going to turn this light off. Okay, so this is the deck lighting. supposed to just shine light on your foot path, but I don't think I put enough in here. I just I'm not feeling it, guys. It's too dark. I didn't put enough uh deck lights in, that's for sure. So, I kind of screwed up there. And um I'm going to tell you straight up, I'm not putting any more in cuz they're easy to install, hard to do when you already have all the walls up. So, we had to peel all them walls off. Then we had to run the wire in the floor. We pulled the whole floor upming deck deck flooring ever. Here's what we did at the beginning. This was the existing shower. The existing shower is now just the cave entrance. And there it is, the shower room with the moisture shield flooring in place. All the walls are up. Everything is done finally except for a few touch-up things, but other than that, she's done. All right, guys. Well, we covered a lot of ground, but we're actually not quite done yet because the next video in this series, we're going outside and we're going to be building a ground level deck and showing you guys how to do the same thing. Because in the next video in this series, remember when I hinted at, I didn't hint, I directly said we built a shower outside of this room. Well, we needed a place to stand. So, we're going to build a deck for that and teach you guys how to build a deck at ground level. And so make sure you stick around for that one. I hope this video series has helped you out. Let me know in the comments down below or give me a big thumbs up.