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When I say “before anything can be done, something else must first be done”, THIS is what I mean. Behold: the dependency diagram for installing the tub in the HomeBox. This diagram is a work in progress and is not complete. Also, the things that are *already* done upon which tub installation depends are not … Continue reading Before anything…

Remember I said I was going to do something cool with those mosaic tiles? I did something cool with those mosaic tiles. Step 1 – cut them out in a wandering path and lay them out on a couple of the interior finish planks for the bathroom. The mosaic tiles come lightly glued to a … Continue reading Inlaid Tile Accent & General Bathroom Update

How does one measure the level in a tank that’s composed of a bunch of pipes in the ceiling? One takes advantage of the fact that liquid seeks a uniform level. The pipes are parallel to the rafters (can’t see ’em now). The straight path will accommodate my depth gauge probe. I’ll need to extend … Continue reading Tank Sensors & Bathroom Update

Let’s take a walk around and see how things are going. Continue reading June 9, 2019 – Tour

I had wondered just exactly how I was going to get the ceiling boards installed myself… I mean, yeah, there are ways… but they all seemed like an immense amount of work to do solo. Naturally, then, I invited my long-time friend John (seriously, we met in 1990, when some of you weren’t even born) … Continue reading Deadbugasana

As I’m boarding up the interior, I have been using the router with a flush trim bit to make the window openings in the boards. This works great when there is framing around the windows, which there is for ordinary windows. However, there is NOT for these light ports because the glass blocks are as … Continue reading Light Port Routes

Rather a lot of progress is captured in this single photo. This is the partition wall for the bathroom, at long last. What has happened to make this possible is:– the bulk of the in-ceiling gray water tank has been built– the ceiling has been boarded up– the walls have been boarded up– measurements for … Continue reading Finally, I Got to Build the Wall

Most of today’s work on the HomeBox (I only had a few hours this weekend) was spent finishing the “sub ceiling” for what will become the bathroom and entry way. Remember the in-ceiling tank? It’s in there, now mostly hidden except for the drain trunk, upper left. That drain line will soon get a plug … Continue reading Bathroom Ceiling

Today’s goal was simple: install the bathroom partition wall. You can see the foot of the wall laid out on the subfloor here. Just copy this on the ceiling, measure for the studs, install, done, right? Right. No. First, there’s the matter of the tub corner (against wall, left). Looking at the layout, I wasn’t … Continue reading I Just Wanted to Build a Wall…

So I had this crazy idea: what if I used the empty space between the rafters over the bathroom to store my gray water, rather than taking up precious *usable* storage space with a big tank somewhere? The most rational way to use the intra-rafter space would be to run some pipes and gang them … Continue reading Tanks!