How one project turns into another…
So I finally decided that we should replace the baseboard heater in our main bathroom. Don’t ask me why I wanted to this week, but it stuck with me and we ordered it through our warehouse at work. Our old one was rusted over and I kept painting the rust to hide it!
It came in on wednesday, and we installed it that night.
However.
I made a mistake. I will admit it here for all to read because I am usually the one nagging Jason that he needs to measure, measure, then cut.
I measured the heater wrong. Our original heater was 36″ long and for some reason, I memorized that I needed a 30″ heater in my head. So we were 6″ off.
But we went ahead, because I was angry at my mistake and we had already started to take the old one off. See the rust? That is the main reason why this desperately needed to be replaced.
Please note: always turn off the breaker! Do not attempt to install a new heater without doing this step first!
The way our heater is installed is there are two supply wires that you need to connect. But Jason called his dad and rechecked the manual just to make sure.
Once we connected the wires all we had to do was screw it back into the wall and we were done!
As you can see from the picture above, Jason and I decided that we would just replace the baseboard molding in the bathroom in order to fix our mistake in measuring. Because our bathroom only needed less than 8′ of molding, buying one piece at Lowes did not break out bank (around $8).
Here is a picture of our bathroom without molding. It looks ugly. It makes me want to tear up the old linoleum!
So just like any other project we’ve done, I started thinking about what else we could do to the bathroom while I had the molding off…
So here is what is on my to-do list for this weekend:
- Change the paint color
- Create a photo wall
- Add a decorative shelf behind the shower
- Replace the shower curtain rod (old one is covered in paint and bent)
- Re-caulk around the tub
- Replace lighting
- Repaint the vanity
Hope everyone has a great weekend! This sunday, I will be stuck between cheering for my family’s team, the Patriots, and my husband’s team, the Ravens. It will be stressful!
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