The Most DIFFICULT Bathroom Build I've Ever Done

During home renovations, we're often challenged with awkward spaces between nooks, crannies, bump-outs, and even corners. Well, in today's video, we are tackling on the most awkward challenge we've ever experienced in the history of this channel. We're on mission to build an entire bathroom in a 21/12 pitch, an incredibly steep pitch roof. No attic, nothing but slanted wall. Put on your big boy pants cuz this one's going to be a doozy. Let's get into it. The most awkward shower I've ever worked on. The slope of this roof is ridiculous. Being an A-frame, this is what you get with it. This is a false wall that's put up. That's why all of this is not slanted all the way down. So, with this system, it's going to be annoying tile. I have to go all the way to the ceiling. But, enough whining, let's start waterproofing this thing. Schluter system, Kerdi membrane, with thinset, throw it on. Let's rock and roll. All right, guys. We're getting started on this tile in this most awkward bathroom ever. I got a little strategy to make it cool. Uh we're This is not part of the strategy, but the tile we're going to use with this porcelain, it's nice and polished. It's gray, which cuz I didn't want to go with the white cuz I think it's going to clash with the tub too much. So, I just checked all my levels. This seems like a really damn good corner. I'm going to work this side up with whatever those miters are going to do, simply because when I get to this part and this part, I could just butt it up against so if there is a gap that I need to conceal, I'll be able to do that. I also got I got something special for the middle here, just to break up this weird angle. Feeling pretty good, got all my supplies, and most importantly I got my lifters. We got a positive attitude. Let's get into it. We've got our first corner piece here angle. I have a pretty good feeling about it. If you want like a quick way to do it, the way I do it is find the measurement from here to here, and then find the measurement from here to there, connect your lines, and you should be good to go. I'm demonstrating you do it. There are little tools out there you can buy to help your life more quick and easier, but that's how I kind of figured it out in my brain. Most important part with showers, back butter your tile. This is the This is the key to the sauce that's going to make this thing stay on and not fall off of you, fall off of your wall after a couple years of using That's not bad at all. Oh, that's not bad at all, folks. And this is how we butt up perfectly to where they're going to have a nice tight seam. Hell yeah. I feel like the pressure's really on right now. I'm getting to the top. It's taking a while to get up and down the ladder, and then also back down to our tile saw. So, Ben's down there, I'm able to holler at him. He's able to climb up our ladder cuz we don't have stairs yet, and bring me the pieces just because I don't want it to dry, and my legs are going to be shot if I keep running up and down all these ladders. But, we're almost done. My goal was to strictly get this section up, and then cap it off with my trim piece on top. Uh, that way tomorrow I can just butt these corners to the side and I think we'll be on schedule. I really hope so. I'm spent. I'm so exhausted. This running around and trying to chase the thin set from drying is obnoxious. Everything I got going on for today I got done. Tomorrow's a new day. Throw everything up on the sides and it should be looking real good. I need to go home and put my feet up. Okay, this is the awkward part that I have not been looking forward to, but we're going to figure this out. Strategy that I've come up with is I need to break up this weird angle cuz I have to keep it decorated. So, what I'm going to do is continue my tile up here and on the side and down the middle I picked up this really cool hexagons. Yeah, there's six of them. 2 4 6, yeah. Hexagon. And I'm going to have it running down the middle like this. I think that'll break it up, make it look somewhat cooler to a degree. Uh, however, one bummer is this is symmetrical with my both pickets and mixing valve, but this one is off by 2 in to the side. And the reason why the plumbers when they installed it, we have a rafter coming through it. So, there's nothing you can do about it. It's either going to be inside or outside and I just said, "Hey, better outside than in cuz you don't want to be taking a shower like this." It's just the cards that are dealt to me, nothing I can do about it. On we go. If you're a hot sleeper like myself, this is going to be your new best friend. Come check this out. This is the Cool Nest from Sweet Night and I have never been this excited about a mattress. Let's open it up. 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Uh called them. They're like, "No, it was due yesterday, but you should be fine." Turns out there's a power outage cuz of the storm. But, let me show you the tile that just got finished drying. Here's what we got. I did get my tile transitions on. Got to I was able to clean it a little bit. Um really happy at how this emitter It's emitter. This is how tired I am. Middle section turned out. Um I have to lay my floor tile today, but I also have to when the floor tile is walkable, which is tomorrow. I got to come get a measurement for my glass, which has to be custom fabricated. It'll take like a month to do. That's how usually they take. But, let me show you my tile. Uh I don't have the name for it, but uh I'm sure I'll link it in my comments in the description here. But, I love that it's it's almost black, charcoal, white veins, which is super slick. It'll match those white veins. Oh, no, I think it's going to look incredible. This is going to be my favorite bathroom. Although, I was talking to Arianne, and she thought it'd be a cool idea to put the vanity to have it a completely different color. Moody, not basic like white, black, gray, but something like she's thinking vintage vogue, which if you remember at my last house, that was the color of my bonus room. It's this cool like, I don't know, really rich dark green color. Let me know what you think. If you give some good suggestions, we'll paint it. So, let me know in the comment section below. In the meantime, let me start dropping this tile. Start dropping it like it's hot. All right, it's the next day. Tile came out great. So glad I used my little leveling kit. And I also think this matches that pretty well. Now, let's talk vanity. I ended up building a vanity, and I'll link it right over here. We did an entire video on it. It was a $1,000 vanity that we built for a fraction of the price. Now, here's the problem. The vanity is down there. We don't have stairs, and we need it to get it up here. And all we got is two ladders here, and we got to figure that out. That's say that's Alex's problem. Let's not get hurt. All right, here's my opinion. I think this is freaking rad. I love that how this cabinet turned out. The color is perfect to match all of these cooter mods that we have going on here from the legs to the hardware to the vessel sink. This is going to be sick. I this is actually I'm I'm pleasantly surprised. Now, the only thing that I have to figure out now is what the freak to do with this backsplash. I have two different planes here and to be honest with you, I don't even know where to start. I'm going to take a little breather, secure this vanity to the wall, silicone this countertop, and then we'll start putting our heads together. All right, let's talk about the backsplash. This is a product that I am not that likely to use. I'm actually surprised I bought it. It's a glass completely glass all the way through backsplash. Herringbone, cute. Yeah, I know. But here's what I don't like about it. It's it's got this white filament almost like a sticker on the back that's like painted on and it creates this white illusion. I don't like that at all because when I'm cutting this on my table saw, it's blowing out that filament that's on the back. And I don't know how to not do that. I'm cutting it literally 500 times slower than I usually cut and it it's decent. Some some of the pieces blew out and let's be honest, the only reason you could tell is because of the white filament compared to that glass. We're going to give it a try. We'll throw it up and if it looks like dog crap, we can always rip it down and vow to never use this stuff again. But today, we'll find out. So, this is the conundrum that we're sitting in. This mirror is about an inch too big for this backsplash. Which I had the mirror as backup mirror for the downstairs bathroom. Not a big deal. But what it's turning out to be is that there's no possibilities to get the mirror to go higher. Unless you have a mirror option, please send it to me cuz this is I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place here. My only option is to keep the mirror up to this line, uh which is about 34 and 1/2 in. Keep it more like this antique-y kind of round bedazzle thing. It's the best thing I can come up with the with the situation that I have here, unfortunately. If you have any ideas, please let me know cuz I could really use some help here. In the meantime, while the backsplash is drying, I'm going to glue on the vessel sink so that tomorrow I can come back and start grouting all of this backsplash. Oh, nice. You know what? I was a bit nervous thinking this slope, this 30°, is going to interfere with the shower head here, but it's not. You can have it as a rainfall like this or obviously out a little bit. Uh things kind of seem to work itself out except the stupid mirror fiasco. Now, uh I got to order my glass panel here and that's going to be a tricky sucker because I have to get all these measurements, 1 2 3 4, uh all custom weird stuff angles and my glass guy is going to cut them and he's like if it's off by an eighth down below, whatever kicking out, mark that cuz we're going to cut it dead nuts and uh I'm going to have a channel all the way around so we can have room for errors. My only concern is it doesn't surpass the height of the tile on top cuz that's going to look hideous and there's nothing to go with it. While I get that going, submit those, it's going to take a few weeks. In the meantime, I'm going to start doing little details here. I think we're going to need some add some shelving here. This looks like an awkward space. Get ourselves a toilet, do the baseboards, get our grout figured out. I'm I'm kind of optimistic about this bathroom, to be honest with you. I was a little nervous, but I'm back on track for it. I'm hopeful. Great news, shower glass is done. Look at this awkward monstrosity. I think it's like 9 ft tall. Uh we have about uh 100 miles to cover. Oh, no, 60 miles to cover to get this thing there. Uh it's strapped okay, but uh we're going to see if at the end of this trip if you're going to see footage of me crying cuz this thing hit a bump and shattered. Only one way to find out. Wish me luck. Okay, first examination, just got to place lots of potholes in the dirt here. It's just what comes with the territory living up here. But, the good thing is it looks all in perfect condition. Usually with tempered glass, once it shatters, it just throws veins all the way through it and it just collapses down. But, it hasn't happened here yet so far. We still have to get it up that hill. Ben's with me here to make sure that no casualties are occurring, and we'll bring it in. And, hopefully, we got all my measurements right cuz I'm not too convinced with that angle. Great news, the first hard part is done. The glass is here, it's safe. Nobody slipped, that was the biggest concern. Next, we got to get it up there. Here's what I'm thinking. Uh we have two options. Option A, we have two ladders, both people come up and bring it up. But, now that I'm thinking about loud, I don't think that's going to work cuz we can't just set it down from the ladder. So, what we're going to need to do is one person on the ladder hoisting it up, the other person on top grabbing it and dragging it up. That seems terrifying, but that's my only option right now. So, let's cowboy up. We got two channels. Um I thought it's going to be three, but the glass company just said we only need two for this. One bottom, they're the adhesive backing. For the tub, they said just to use the sticker, the double-sided tape. For the wall. They said you can just use the double-sided tape, but some people choose to go with pre-drilled their own holes, which we're going to do that. It's a big piece of glass. They already came mitered for this wall angle, which I believe was what, like 150°? No, 30. 30° angle, which matches perfectly. Um so, we'll put a couple of holes there, and then over here, per glass company's recommendation, they said you don't have to. That's basically an aesthetic thing unless somebody decides to swing on it, which this being screwed in shouldn't be a problem. Wish us luck. Let's go. And for the tub, you don't need to put in screw holes cuz this is fiberglass, and no matter what kind of anchor you use, it's not going to do anything. So, I'm fully trust the sticker here, and I've done that before. It was not a problem. The rest shall get screwed, and the idea here is to make sure our gap is nice and tight. We're going to pre-drill our hole, and then we'll create a pilot hole around it with just a slightly rounder bit so that we could have a higher chance of countersinking those screws. I am flying high right now. I really am. I've been so anxious about this for so long. Number one with making sure I measured everything correctly, even with the 8-in pivot, but also my biggest concern is getting this piece long enough that it's not protruding past the tile piece, and you could say all my wildest dreams came true right now. I still have a lot to do right now. I still have to silicone the top part so make sure nothing protrudes through, the inside border so nothing goes around, uh do some finishing touches around here, get some faucet installed, hardware, and then I'll show you guys the final reveal, and the budget breakdown. We'll don't what I spent on this. See you in a minute. All right, guys. Got everything touched up, dialed in, and cleaned up. There's a few things that still need the finishing touches like the electrical outlets need to be put in, the light fixtures need to be put in, and the tub overflow thing. But, that is for the HVAC, electrician, and plumbers to come and finish that off cuz they included that in their bid. I don't have to go and waste my money on it. But, let me show you what we came up with. Check this out. All right, guys. I hope you guys like this transformation. If you're curious about the budget, what did it cost to build out this entire bathroom? Again, not including plumbing or electrical or drywall, we're looking at $2,894. Our total work days was between 6 and 7 days. That's of course with finishing touches. I hope this video is helpful, maybe even inspiring based off the projects you're tackling at home. And if you have any other ideas that we should tackle on on this channel, I'd love to hear them in the comment section down below. Thanks so much for watching. If you're brand new channel, don't forget to subscribe. We put out weekly videos, and I don't want you to miss a single one. In the meantime, here's a video I think you might enjoy. See you. Bye.