Bathroom Remodeling
2008-11
We bought this house in Nov 2008. I am Japanese and taking bath has been just my part of my life. However, we fall in love with this house so much that we accepted fact that the house only had Shower in Master. We were thinking… well, bathtub can be easily installed! We can knock down the closet and place shower there and place bathtub where current shower stall is.
2010-01
So yeah… about one year has passed. We got estimate from a few contractors and I was like wow… placing bathtub is not so cheap especially in our case, major pluming work was involving. First we got estimate from homeDepot. They told me it will be like $30K. Then we met a couple of contractors – both were like $13k or so… because of the limited space we have, I have to pick small bathtub and of course, smaller shower…. I just didn’t see the value paying that much to have small bathtub with smaller shower space… Long story short, I decided that steam sauna is what I want…
1) Greener – it use much less water than bath
2) Don’t have to sacrifice on shower space
3) and a lots of benefit – just google “steam sauna benefit”
Old Bathroom
2010-08
We found one company called Bath-Pro who we feel we can trust and offers very reasonable price. The construction was finally started on Aug 9th.
2010-08-09 [Day 1]
They did demo
Bathroom Remodeling Day 1
2010-08-10/11 [Day 2 & 3]
They placed bench and soffit ceiling so that they can tile the ceiling.
Bathroom Remodel Day 3
2010-08-10/11 [Day 4~]
I got too excited about design and forgot to check some critical thing.. Permit. My husband thought that they are professional so he assumed that they already got permit for this construction. But I wasn’t sure so I checked with them… they told me it is up to home owner… We requested Permit from city. Phew… good thing we checked with them. If you google “bathroom remodiling permit”, you will see all kinds of helpful information. We decided that getting Permit is right thing to do especially installation of Steam Sauna involves running electric cable etc…