Anyone interested in 83 Pace Arrow Tear down and Rebuild?

As a casual observer, I can appreciate using scrap wood where possible. But, has your frugalness caused you to lose sight of the application? My thought is marine grade plywood would have been a much better choice considering where it's going to live. The bath is a very wet and humid environment.

After a bit of patience, and some time, and we end up with "new" plywood that is thicker, and much stronger. Now to assemble a new box.

Since some of the plywood is longer than others, I also needed to secure the other end.

As you can see, I used a piece of plywood, a clamp, a 2x3, the fence that I use with my portable router, and shelving... to clamp it until it dries.







Sometimes, I just use what's available, and figured this would work.

Throw some spare plywood on top of those pieces, and weight it down with tools, bricks, lacquer, Por15, and a few clamps until it dries.

Soooooo, I wanted to use 1/2 in thick plywood for the sides. I have some plywood, but the pieces I have, are not large enough to create those pieces.

Not wanting to buy another sheet, which I don't "think" I will need much of, I looked around and found something that will work, but take a little extra work to make it usable.

Yes, it's time to create some plywood. Well, sort of.

I have extra 1/4" thick plywood, and plenty to make these sides, IF I glue a couple of pieces together.

That will make nearly 1/2" thick and I have no qualms about gluing them together. The glue will work just fine.

Drop some glue on one of the pieces.







Then, using a 2" wide foam brush, smooth it all around.

Next up is to create a new platform for the toilet to sit on, that is a little more substantial than this one is.

PastorCharlie wrote:

fulltimin wrote:
I needed something to hold up the shower floor, so I figured left over wood should work just fine. It turns out, putting 2 of them together is exactly the height that I need for said floor.

Yes, I left a "hole" in the one corner so I can run a water line through there to the kitchen side. That should work just fine.

The next owner, while doing a major bathroom rebuild, will pull his hair out trying to figure why you cut the ends of the 2X4 with rounded ends.

Maybe I should put a note under there for the poor next owner! Lol...

fulltimin wrote:
I needed something to hold up the shower floor, so I figured left over wood should work just fine. It turns out, putting 2 of them together is exactly the height that I need for said floor.

Yes, I left a "hole" in the one corner so I can run a water line through there to the kitchen side. That should work just fine.

The next owner, while doing a major bathroom rebuild, will pull his hair out trying to figure why you cut the ends of the 2X4 with rounded ends.

Then it was time to add some plywood on top of said base. Yea, it's just a hair out of square. That is what trim is for. Lol.

I needed something to hold up the shower floor, so I figured left over wood should work just fine. It turns out, putting 2 of them together is exactly the height that I need for said floor.

Yes, I left a "hole" in the one corner so I can run a water line through there to the kitchen side. That should work just fine.