Hick has been working off and on at completing the hall bathroom at Pony House. It's just a sink and toilet, with a sliding door like a barn door, which needs some paint and a design. The door is hanging, and works fine. Just some cosmetic updates.
He has the toilet base in place, but sometimes shows me a picture with the tank on, sometimes not. The sink is in, and the lighting, and now a mirror.
Hick says he cleaned up the paint on the floor. I'm pretty sure he put in trim as well.
The half bath has a pedestal sink. The lights are up, and the mirror. The mirror cost Hick $2.50. He got it along with the mirror in the Bathroom 2, for a total of $5.00 at an auction. Hick says it would be $75-$100 by itself if he bought it new. As you can see, in this picture the tank on the toilet has disappeared, or wasn't put on yet.
Hick also said this half-bath does not have any electrical outlets.
"There's no need for that. It's just a bathroom. To pee or poop in. Nobody's going to be shaving in here, or drying their hair. No medicine cabinet, no shelves, no vanity. Just a toilet and sink and mirror and light. That's all you need."
I'm pretty sure he will put in a toilet paper holder, and a towel rack...
Far be it from me to second guess Hick on any construction and I am usually pro-Hick on these things, but Hick should rethink the outlet thing. Easier to put in now than later and you never know down the road what you might need.
ReplyDeleteAlso is a code thing in many states.
I think Hick just forgot to wire this half bath for outlets. At least it has a LIGHT, so you don't have to carry a lantern in there! It was originally going to be The Pony's Master Bathroom closet, and a smaller, squarer version of itself.
DeleteCODES? This is Missouri! The one code I know for sure is that a bedroom can't be called a bedroom unless it has a window, and the window is big enough to escape out of.
Hey if you need electric run a cord.
ReplyDeleteTHAT'S the way we do things!
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ReplyDeleteDon't make that shaving face unless you're going to use an old-style razor. C'mon. We know YOU'RE not going to be shaving in there!
DeleteWell, as long as Pony Boy plans to live there forever......lack of outlets won't be a major selling point, that's for sure! My opinion (being a female) is that you can NEVER have too many outlets! And it's far easier to put them in when you're in construction phase. Ask my electrical engineer husband......he built the house before we were married & has been putting them in every few years when I point out we "need" one here! :-)
ReplyDeleteYou'd think a 2-bedroom house with 3 bathrooms would not have a need for people electrifying themselves with appliances in the half bath. They could plug-in in the kitchen, and use their reflection in the microwave (now installed) to do their beautifying.
DeleteOf course he will put those in. Is it in working condition already? We don't call those half-baths here in Australia, we just call it a toilet. The room part is implied. And not all of them have a sink, which we call a basin. Many newer built homes do, but not the older ones.
ReplyDeleteI don't think this toilet is working yet, nor the one in the master bathroom. Hick has to get under the house to fiddle with the water lines first. The weather has been too snowy and now too wet under the house.
DeleteThe toilet in Bathroom 2 works, but only if Hick takes jugs of water to pour in the tank for flushing. The city water is not hooked up yet.
My tiny home is filled with outlets. The bedroom has four! The only thing I hate is that the switch for the light in the bathroom is not on the wall closest to the door and you must enter the bathroom to flip it on. Pocket door prevents any fix to that. I vote for at least one outlet in that toilet room.
ReplyDeleteI don't think Hick wants to mess up his newly-painted walls! I guess he could drop it through the ceiling, and run it in metal conduit, like HOS (Hick's Oldest Son) wanted in his kitchen, for the industrial look.
DeleteWe have one like that in the laundry room. As I enter from the kitchen, I have to walk across the room, where the light switch is beside the door that goes outside. Handy if you're coming in from outside, but we rarely do that.