Complete bathroom overhaul - a sad, builder-grade sack of tears

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JB50: Feb 13, 2008

Just use river rock tile instead of loose rock if you want a bathroom you can really use:

# ? Apr 27, 2017 05:20

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I think seashells would be beautiful, fill the bed with those.

# ? Apr 27, 2017 05:24

Fuckface the Hedgehog: Jun 12, 2007

In keeping with your colour scheme I would recommend ditching the river rocks and replacing them with carved cinnabar stones. It would really bring the room together.

# ? Apr 27, 2017 05:41

value-brand cereal: May 2, 2008

Piell posted:

Encapsulate the rocks in mortar.

Holy gently caress I think we're onto something here.

Skip encapsulating the rocks in epoxy and just tint some epoxy brown to DIY up some chunks of Amber. You would have the most unique and expensive looking poo poo palace.

# ? Apr 27, 2017 05:45

The Bloop: Jul 5, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

Do one of those floors with all the pennies except use pull tabs from soda cans

# ? Apr 27, 2017 05:52

SlothBear: Jan 25, 2009

The Bloop posted:

Do one of those floors with all the pennies except use pull tabs from soda cans

Why not just use actual soda cans?

# ? Apr 27, 2017 05:53

Stitecin: Feb 6, 2004; Mayor of Stitecinopolis

Fuckface the Hedgehog posted:

In keeping with your colour scheme I would recommend ditching the river rocks and replacing them with carved cinnabar stones. It would really bring the room together.

Hahaha, I get this one. Good thing OP makes $Texas being a Sales Scumbag or whatever because if you think paying for the truss repair is expensive good luck buying that much Cinnabar.

OP in the name of matching your color theme consider Orpiment.

# ? Apr 27, 2017 05:57

Bad Munki: Nov 4, 2008; We're all mad here.

The Bloop posted:

Do one of those floors with all the pennies except use pull tabs from soda cans

Maybe you're content with a builder-grade money floor, but OP wants something better. Wall to wall Sacagawea dollars.

# ? Apr 27, 2017 06:12

Facebook Aunt: Oct 4, 2008; wiggle wiggle

SoundMonkey posted:

edit: bonus if that recessed light from the kitchen that's below the tub constantly warms the standing water in the rocks

I'm sure this next level bathroom will have heated floors. What kind of pleb doesn't have heated bathroom floors?

# ? Apr 27, 2017 06:47

FogHelmut: Dec 18, 2003

Stitecin posted:

Hahaha, I get this one. Good thing OP makes $Texas being a Sales Scumbag or whatever because if you think paying for the truss repair is expensive good luck buying that much Cinnabar.

OP in the name of matching your color theme consider Orpiment.

Gonna be Cinnabon with all the yeast he's growing around the tub.

# ? Apr 27, 2017 06:58

Piell: Sep 3, 2006; Grey Worm's Ken doll-like groin throbbed with the anticipatory pleasure that only a slightly warm and moist piece of lemoncake could offer; Young Orc

Fill the pit around your tub with hermit crabs

# ? Apr 27, 2017 08:02

ChickenOfTomorrow: Nov 11, 2012; god damn it, you've got to be kind

go big or go home: lava.

# ? Apr 27, 2017 12:18

Neutrino: Mar 8, 2006; Fallen Rib

Broken glass? Survival of the fittest.

# ? Apr 27, 2017 12:44

The Bloop: Jul 5, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

Nest the tub in a series of larger tubs. It will be like bathing in a beautiful flower.

# ? Apr 27, 2017 12:47

TheMightyHandful: Dec 8, 2008

Zahgaegun posted:

I think seashells would be beautiful, fill the bed with those.

Plus three for the toilet

# ? Apr 27, 2017 12:48

Spookydonut: Sep 13, 2010; "Hello alien thoughtbeasts! We murder children!"
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You know how they do that thing with champagne glasses where they make a tower and fill them by overflowing the top glass?
Do that except with bathtubs on top of the cut joists.

# ? Apr 27, 2017 12:50

Bloody Hedgehog: Dec 12, 2003; 💥💥🤯💥💥
Gotta nuke something

# ? Apr 27, 2017 12:56

got any sevens: Feb 9, 2013; by Cyrano4747

Bad Munki posted:

Maybe you're content with a builder-grade money floor, but OP wants something better. Wall to wall Sacagawea dollars.

We gotta save some money somewhere: buffalo nickels, dude

# ? Apr 27, 2017 14:35

Bad Munki: Nov 4, 2008; We're all mad here.

ChickenOfTomorrow posted:

go big or go home: lava.

Okay all the stone chat made me suspicious but now I'm certain: y'all just playing dwarf fortress.

# ? Apr 27, 2017 14:45

ChickenOfTomorrow: Nov 11, 2012; god damn it, you've got to be kind

this is a masterwork engineered joist. It menaces with spikes of plywood.

# ? Apr 27, 2017 14:54

TehRedWheelbarrow: Mar 16, 2011; Fan of Britches

maybe around 28.5714 stone of concrete instead of the rocky moldy bathtub show

# ? Apr 27, 2017 15:09

Bad Munki: Nov 4, 2008; We're all mad here.

ChickenOfTomorrow posted:

this is a masterwork engineered joist. It menaces with spikes of plywood.

It features a carving of a homeowner and engineer in plywood. The engineer is bowing before the homeowner. The homeowner is laughing.

# ? Apr 27, 2017 15:17

Stitecin: Feb 6, 2004; Mayor of Stitecinopolis

got any sevens posted:

We gotta save some money somewhere: buffalo nickels, dude

Please stop suggesting flooring that won't ~~kill~~ be aesthetically pleasing to the OP.

Refer to this list or others like it if you don't already know a few ~~poisionous~~ aesthetically pleasing rocks that haven't been mentioned.

Stitecin fucked around with this message at 16:01 on Apr 27, 2017

# ? Apr 27, 2017 15:45

Post poste: Mar 29, 2010

Bad Munki posted:

Okay all the stone chat made me suspicious but now I'm certain: y'all just playing dwarf fortress.

If that were true, we'd be recommending more microcline and mine carts.

# ? Apr 27, 2017 15:46

Bad Munki: Nov 4, 2008; We're all mad here.

Post poste posted:

If that were true, we'd be recommending more microcline and mine carts.

Okay but why aren't we? OP: make your infinity bathtub an infinity mine cart that perpetually does laps around the bathroom at like 1000 miles per hour.

# ? Apr 27, 2017 15:48

canyoneer: Sep 13, 2005; I only have canyoneyes for you

Mine cart bath tub seems like a perfect fit for the Americana country rustic trend right now.

# ? Apr 27, 2017 16:59

Phanatic: Mar 13, 2007; Please don't forget that I am an extremely racist idiot who also has terrible opinions about the Culture series.

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# ? Apr 27, 2017 17:14

Bad Munki: Nov 4, 2008; We're all mad here.

MOLD FOR THE MOLD GOD

# ? Apr 27, 2017 17:19

Facebook Aunt: Oct 4, 2008; wiggle wiggle

Stitecin posted:

Please stop suggesting flooring that won't ~~kill~~ be aesthetically pleasing to the OP.

Refer to this list or others like it if you don't already know a few ~~poisionous~~ aesthetically pleasing rocks that haven't been mentioned.

Not only are they pretty, several of them look like they'd be great for inhibiting the growth of mold.

# ? Apr 27, 2017 17:23

Fuckface the Hedgehog: Jun 12, 2007

Facebook Aunt posted:

Not only are they pretty, several of them look like they'd be great for inhibiting the growth of mold.

Dont have to worry about the bathtub catching fire if its surrounded by asbestos.

# ? Apr 27, 2017 18:34

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Facebook Aunt posted:

Not only are they pretty, several of them look like they'd be great for inhibiting the growth of mold.

Along that line I'd like to recommend Coffinite, the radiation will either inhibit the mold naturally or he'll breed some extremophile black mold like the stuff on the elephants foot in Chernobyl. Either way, cool.

On second thought, maybe put an elephants foot under the tub, it will support it and you can cut all the way through the floor and make yourself a truly infinite tub.

# ? Apr 27, 2017 18:37

HerStuddMuffin: Aug 10, 2014; YOSPOS

Stitecin posted:

Please stop suggesting flooring that won't ~~kill~~ be aesthetically pleasing to the OP.

Refer to this list or others like it if you don't already know a few ~~poisionous~~ aesthetically pleasing rocks that haven't been mentioned.

That article is pure sensationalistic garbage. None of that stuff is nearly as acutely toxic as they make it out to be. Copper sulfate is mostly harmless unless you start doing lines of it, but that could be said of many compounds. Anything that causes cancer (or "super cancer" lmao) requires chronic, long-term exposure to be harmful. Miners should be aware of the risks that they expose themselves to, handling these compounds for a third of their life. The rest of us, not so much.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, the guy who was recommending obsidian has it right. Just grab a big block and smash it into lego-piece-sized bits with very sharp edges. They're pretty!

# ? Apr 27, 2017 19:28

bEatmstrJ: Jun 30, 2004; Look upon my bathroom joists, ye females, and despair.

WAR DOGS OF SOCHI posted:

OP, seriously, how do you plan on cleaning the rocks? Spray them with bleach solution one a week or?

Are they going to be loose 2-3" stones? Won't your foot just sink into them down to the pan or are they not intended to be walked on?

I'm not certain about the cleaning bit yet. Nothing is set in stone at this time, so don't get too excited. I may do some experimentation before committing but I have a few ideas. They would not be intended for walking on, purely decorative.

And I know you guys are all 300lb goons and water displacement and what not, but if more than a few drops of water fell into my mold pit I would be surprised. Relative humidity of the room aside, It's not like there's going to be gallons of overflow every time the bath is used.

Also in a bathroom of this size, the humidity levels stay pretty low despite not having a fan. Not once has my bathroom mirror(s) shown even remote signs of fogging.

# ? Apr 27, 2017 20:01