A New Bathroom for 80-Year Old Home

Renovations are always interesting, challenging, and full of surprises, and this project was no different.  Redbud Construction Services got the call from the owners and they stated, “We took the ceiling tiles down, and we found we have a bunch of plumbing lines in our living room.  Can you help?”

I had a hard time understanding exactly what they were trying to describe, but when we met the owners at their home, I understood completely.  Unfortunately for the current homeowners, the previous owners had taken on a plumbing project that was literally ‘over their heads.’  The pluming in the living room ceiling was installed in order to put a bathroom upstairs in what used to be a renovated attic space, but it was installed incorrectly.  The only way the drain lines would have worked was if water flowed uphill!

So there was the first challenge.  Fix the plumbing and make the living room ceiling look like a living room ceiling…again.

The next challenge was to renovate the downstairs bathroom to gain more space for a family of five, and to make it a retreat for mom…a place to soak away the stresses of the day in the antique, cast-iron, claw foot tub.  The owners (especially the mom) wanted to have a spacious bathroom for her tub and incorporate an archway into the design.  The problem was that in an 80-year old house with a very old bathroom, the floors have a tendency not to be level and there is usually water damage over that period of time….and so was the case on this project.  So we had to remove the floor down to the joists and start from there.

After removing the floor, ceilings and walls, we re-framed, re-wired, re-plumbed, and re-finished the bathroom…mom had a place to relax and get away…if only for a few minutes.

Aaron and Katie (mom)…the owners:

“When we needed to hire a contracting company to remodel our 1925 Arts and Crafts house, we had 3 requirements in mind during our selection process: honesty, quality design and materials, and a good old-fashioned hard working spirit. Redbud Construction Services was the obvious choice for us! From the initial cost estimation and design process all the way to the last day of clean up, the Redbud team went above and beyond the call of duty. You will not find a better company to work with!”

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