Faux or Light Stone Interior Wall

[Irving]

This thread needs a photo tutorial.

[Irving]

Looks cool. Can you set your phone on it to watch YouTube while you use the toilet?

[crays]

Looks good. That was a serious void in that pipe

At least it wasn't in the upper level.

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[ChickNorris]

2x4 ledge is how I install cabinetry/sheet rock when I'm solo too.

Big project. Looks nice.

[crays]

I made some progress on the wall today.

My saga began with a pinhole leak in a hot water line. It had been leaking for a while as the basement floor became a pool.

Tracing the water back from the basement ceiling led me to this wall. It runs in-between the laundry room and a guest bathroom on the first floor.
I ended up cutting a hole in the wall to get to the water source.

I don't believe paint removal is done this way.

A Sharkbite coupling was the temporary fix.

Eventually, I had to remove the sheetrock from both walls as they were saturated.

I replaced both water lines with Pex.
A friend urged me to use the largest piece of sheetrock I could handle to minimize the seams and subsequent finishing. I purchased 2 twelve foot sheets and cut them down to 10'. I next had to get the sheetrock into position to screw it in. A wise person suggested that I place a 2x4 horizontally a little more than 4' down from the ceiling. This would allow me to place it on this ledge and push it into place. Way easier said than done. A 10' sheet carried by one guy and placed into position would have produced a hilarious video. Pain and exhaustion didn't quite win and I got it into position.

I ended up placing a board and batten setup over the sheetrock instead of trying to match the texture with the other walls and ceiling.

And before you ask, I did end up ripping up the laminate floor and underlayment and replacing that.

The floor in the guest bathroom was oak and had not been finished yet as someone couldn't figure out the proper stain color. Unfinished oak and water make friends quickly and the oak swells to show the result of their getting together. A Festool Rotex sander saved the day and I was able to get it smoothed out. (Waited for it to dry before I began any of this.)

Next, I sheetrocked the bathroom wall. Not a good move as the split face stone I wanted to apply does much better over cement board or Hardie Backer. Ripped the sheetrock off and installed the Hardie.

I painted the remaining walls and started installing the stone today...


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Should've just used some FlexSeal and been done with it...

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[LX470]

Forgot this one...

This was the inside of the offending pipe: