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The walls here are built using
the same construction methods as original - birch
3/8" plywood dadoed into 1x face frames as this
makes a free standing wall with a flat surface
on the inside for the shower walls. You
will notice throughout all the pictures, small squares
of blue tape on the floor. I spent 1 week just
laying out the floor plan, measuring, mocking up
and working with the plan until I was satisfied. This
little bit of up-front work made the whole follow-on
installation go much smoother.
The backside of the bath wall
is the forward side of the aft lateral bed, and in
the space outboard of the shower walls I put
in a bookcase. The
forward face of the bathroom. The water heater will
mount on the outboard section. The panel sections
screw down into the floor and are bolted and screwed
to each other, and then aluminum angle brackets are
used at the top to attach to the ceiling only where
necessary. If you secured everything to the walls,
the flexing would soon destroy the cabinets.
Under the forward facing lav sink
base there is a shelf for large items. The medicine
chest above the sink has adjustable bookcase type
pin hole shelving.
The finished shower walls are
made from Hoskin & Muir 1/16th"
panel corner and edge extrusions, stainless steel screws
and white Formica panels. The
Lasco shower
curtain bar helps stabilize the upper shower wall panel
and the door opening.
The raised
toilet pedestal area covers the plumbing and electrical
inlet and also brings the shorter Sealand toilet
up to proper throne height. Leftover
linoleum and more aluminum trim from VTS and H&K makes
it water resistant and easy to clean, plus
gives the bathroom a nice deco finish look..
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The bathroom door, cabinet doors and bath hardware
will come later...
