{"id":12824,"date":"2010-02-25T12:35:14","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T20:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2010\/02\/25\/12824.html"},"modified":"2010-02-25T12:35:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T20:35:14","slug":"remodel-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2010\/02\/25\/remodel-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Remodel or not?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My guest-room bathroom was done in a light-colored wood with linoleum on the floor; it's a perfectly good bathroom, but it doesn't look nearly as nice as the dark-wood-and-tile of the master bathroom or the dark-wood-and-stone of the kitchen.<\/p>\n

So I always figured that a few years down the line, after selling the old place and buying some nicer furniture, I would remodel the guest bathroom to make it look more like the nicer parts of the house.<\/p>\n

But then along came a water spill<\/a>. I've been running fans across both the underflooring upstairs and the exposed ceiling downstairs, trying to dry things out, but the particle-board underflooring seemed to be holding a lot of water. So Breht came this morning and ripped out a bunch of underflooring (exposing the plywood beneath); we figured it was simpler to replace it than to wait for it to dry and hope nothing got moldy.<\/p>\n

But now it turns out that water got under the sink cabinet as well; there's a piece of particle board under one side of the sink cabinet, and we think it wicked the water across to the plywood under the rest of the sink cabinet.<\/p>\n

So now I have to decide between two options:<\/p>\n

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  1. Tear out the sink, the surrounding countertop, and the sink cabinet, make a bunch of design choices, hire a contractor, and redo the whole bathroom now.<\/li>\n
  2. Run a fan for a few more days to try to dry out the under-sink area, then put in new subflooring and put linoleum over it and put in a new toilet and leave the whole thing alone until I'm ready to do a real remodel, at which point everything would have to be ripped out again.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Option B sounds wasteful—with the toilet out and the flooring ripped up already, it seems like we might as well build what I really want.<\/p>\n

    But I'm dreading option A, even assuming I can afford it right now. I don't really want to have to make a bunch of design choices right now. I don't want to embark on potentially months' worth of the guest bathroom being unusable. (I have a guest arriving tomorrow; the guest bathroom is going to be unusable for the next few days regardless, but it could potentially be up and running again by Tuesday or so.) I don't want to deal with the uncertainty of finding a contractor and trying to work out a design with them and then hoping they don't just disappear for weeks on end the way contractors tend to do. I don't want to have to decide whether to go even further and replace the bathtub (though I think the answer to that is no). And so on and so on.<\/p>\n

    And it's only taken Breht about a day's work to go from fully operational bathroom to current state. So although option B would involve a certain amount of waste (especially of the new linoleum), it would only add a day or so to the amount of time it would take to do a remodel.<\/p>\n

    The current plan is for me to think about it over the weekend and let Breht know on Monday. Thoughts\/ideas\/suggestions welcome.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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