Spiderman Returns!

"It was a dark and stormy night..." was a favorite way for Snoopy to start one of his supposed award-winning novels, and such an opening could have described our evening yesterday.  We finally got some rain which we desperately needed.  I have to admit having thunderstorms in January still seems strange to me, but we are grateful for the rain nonetheless.  The day dawned wet and windy, so this was a perfect chance to work on the next step in the bathroom.

Since we took the time yesterday to cut and dry-fit all of the trim pieces, our task today simply was to line the parts up and glue them in place.

The front and end top molding are braced until tomorrow.

Everything went together fairly easily. We were finished with the gluing part of the job by 10:00 a.m. My only concern was that we were using lots of glue to keep everything in place, and we still need a tube of glue for the alcove tomorrow.  However, when we were finished, we still have a full tube of glue left over, so we should be fine.

Bracing the back wall trim against the center side wall
brace took a little finesse and a few shims to get into place.

The mirror reflects all of the bracing.  This time, thankfully,
the main part of the bathroom was free of bracing so we can
use the toilet and sink.

The directions said to tape everything in place while the glue dries, and then to add bracing to make sure that the trim really adheres to the wall.  The bracing took a bit of doing, but in the end we were able to get everything secured.  And yes, Owen, it looks like Spiderman helped Grandpa again!

Rick is trapped inside Spiderman's web!

Tomorrow we will take down the bracing web and cut the hole in the back wall for the shampoo/ soap alcove.  Then we need to caulk everything and install the missing woodwork to finish the room.  This bathroom still needs some artwork for interest, but because of the rain almost all day today, we skipped the downtown art fair for a later date.