Friday, November 6, 2015

Day 14: Crunch time

Slept at the house again last night. This time was much warmer.

Today I put up another couple of sheets of aquapanel for the shower and prepped the brick wall for mounting backerboard and drywall. First I chiselled away the high points and then put down a coat of SBR, which apparently is a bonding agent like PVA except that it repels water and is a good primer. I'm going to put up the board using a technique called "dot and dab". Essentially this involves chucking a whole lot of tile adhesive on the wall and sticking the panels to it. The boards are then mechanically fixed using framing screws. Let's see.

I also ripped up the remaining floorboards and cutout the replacement plywood.

Finally, I started soldering the new pipes. The first compression fitting had a slow drip - much prefer solder myself.

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