Electrical, Plumbing and Framing – One Room Challenge Week 4

We are back at it, another week of the One Room Challenge has arrived!

Click below for a quick glance at the past weeks!

Week 1 / Week 2 / Week 3 / Week 4 / Week 5 / Week 6 / Week 7 / Week 8

With the completion of last week’s demo, we are now ready to start building this bathroom back up starting from the inside out. Let’s discuss what that means for us on this Electrical, Plumbing, and Framing – One Room Challenge Week 4.

Plumbing

Being honest one of the things we were most worried about was the amount of rough plumbing work that would have to be done. After opening up the walls the decision was clear that it would be the better route to hire this out to a professional. As much fun as it would be to learn more about plumbing it just felt like this wasn’t the time to take that risk as this is such a large project. But one thing we love about hiring out to good people is the ability to learn from them little things along the way that help us be more well-informed for future projects.

Framing

There is not much framing to be done, but a lot of planning was required. We needed to close up the old doorway into the bathroom as we will now use the closet entrance to get to the bathroom. We then needed to create niches above the freestanding tub and in the shower stall area. For this, we had to build temporary walls since the niches are going to be located in a load-bearing wall. We calculated taking into account the backer board, mud, tile, and everything going into the wall to mark the location where the niches will go. And then proceeded to start cutting and framing the niches.

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Electrical

There’s a bunch of wiring here that we are going to move around. If you follow our stories on Instagram, you’ll get a better understanding of what we’re doing. For the sake of this post, here’s a quick list:

• Switches on the outside of the bathroom to the inside of the bathroom that controls the vent/ceiling light.
• Installing junction boxes for the sconces on the sides and in between of the mirror above the vanity for task lighting.
• Installing outlets to code near the vanity as well.

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To be honest this may not be the most exciting of topics but definitely the most necessary. If you want to have an amazing outcome, an astonishing “After” that you can really feel proud about, this is where those details are really important. Your mood board cannot come to life without knowing what lights you want to use, where you’re going to use them, how you want them centered or placed, and doing things to code so that it’s safe. The same goes for the plumbing of course! All this to ensure that this room that you’ve worked so hard on is a space you can enjoy for many years to come.

We hope you will continue to follow along with us as we transition from Electrical, Plumbing and Framing – One Room Challenge Week 4, into drywall, backer board, and mudding in the upcoming week.

No go on and checkout how the featured designers and fellow guest participants are doing with their spaces this week. And let us know in the comments below, have you done any DIY plumbing before?