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flowerbug
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ok, what i really want to redo sometime is the utility room shower that we both use. we have a full shower/bathtub in the other main bathroom but it is too hard for Mom to get in and out of and we've hardly ever used it since the place was built (i've used it once to take a bath and it wasn't very good for that so for all that work and bother, nope, shower is good enough)... i consider that main shower and bath a waste of valueable space - but that will not be dealt with anytime soon.
the utility room shower however, getting as much use as it does shows a lot of wear right now and the plastic is cracking so it is getting due for replacement. i already did some work on it about 16 years ago (wow time has gone by quickly) but really what i want to do is take it all out and replace it with something more durable. plastic crapola, nomogowayfahandnocomeback! and preferably in a rust color so i can ignore the rust in the water that makes everything white look yellow, orange and well rusty for a good long time.
today i finally cleaned the shower again to remove the rust. the cleaning fluid gives off some fumes, it's not something i want to experience often. we've not cleaned it for three months or so or perhaps longer. it was pretty orange... i did get it done. hated every moment of it (including that i managed to get a bit of it in my eye). and found out the shower curtain will survive contact with the cleaning fluid so i almost got that done too before i ran out of juice so i had to finish that up later (it is still soaking in the sink because i'm too lazy to get up and deal with it at the moment
).
the real sticking point is that i do not want to put money into it if it must be white. i just want it to match the rest of the trim in the house and be an orangy red color. Mom hates that idea. *sigh* so perhaps i go for white with the plan to eventually go over it with colored epoxy paint after Mom is gone. i hate that idea too, but perhaps that may be a compromise i can live with, but do you know how much easier it would be to do the colored epoxy coating before it gets put on the wall? ...
ok, other than that i'm having some fun doing computer dorking (playing with some code to get it to do what i want).
the utility room shower however, getting as much use as it does shows a lot of wear right now and the plastic is cracking so it is getting due for replacement. i already did some work on it about 16 years ago (wow time has gone by quickly) but really what i want to do is take it all out and replace it with something more durable. plastic crapola, nomogowayfahandnocomeback! and preferably in a rust color so i can ignore the rust in the water that makes everything white look yellow, orange and well rusty for a good long time.
today i finally cleaned the shower again to remove the rust. the cleaning fluid gives off some fumes, it's not something i want to experience often. we've not cleaned it for three months or so or perhaps longer. it was pretty orange... i did get it done. hated every moment of it (including that i managed to get a bit of it in my eye). and found out the shower curtain will survive contact with the cleaning fluid so i almost got that done too before i ran out of juice so i had to finish that up later (it is still soaking in the sink because i'm too lazy to get up and deal with it at the moment
).the real sticking point is that i do not want to put money into it if it must be white. i just want it to match the rest of the trim in the house and be an orangy red color. Mom hates that idea. *sigh* so perhaps i go for white with the plan to eventually go over it with colored epoxy paint after Mom is gone. i hate that idea too, but perhaps that may be a compromise i can live with, but do you know how much easier it would be to do the colored epoxy coating before it gets put on the wall? ...
ok, other than that i'm having some fun doing computer dorking (playing with some code to get it to do what i want).
