Hail Cedar!

I was getting into the shower the other day and stepped onto a freezing cold tile floor and thought to my self "this sucks." My favorite thing is a long shower, and a cold floor is the pitts. The shower in our house is big. Really big. It's 58'' x 34'' and all tile. The floor tile is super haggard and gross. The grout is greying and dirty looking and the tile around the joint where the walls meet the floor are all chipped. Basically from the floor up to two inches of the wall is gross and terrible. This is a mild exaggeration - the tile is clean, and the chips are superficial, but when you want to have a sweet, sweet shower, these things get amplified. I was going to pour concrete over the tile to cover it up so that we wouldn't have to deal with grout any more but that was going to be a ton of work and really messy.

SO - two nights ago Peter McCarron cam over for a visit after his trip to Mexico and I was telling him about the shower issues. He mentionned that his parents who have recently built a house in PEI had put down a cedar shower tray over their tiles. It's warm, looks nice and smells awesome. I had seen a similar thing in a kitchen and bath magazine but done with teak. Cedar is equally weather/water resistant and looks nicer with our existing floors (spruce) I went out that night and bought $100 worth of cedar planks, some deck screws and a couple of l brackets and some finishing nails at Home Depot (thanks Ben and Wendy for the Gift Certidficate) I drew up a quick plan for a floor and a corner seat and started ripping planks.

I had two evenings to get it in and working level before Tamara got back from Victoria. It went reasonably fast until it came to leveling and shimming up the flor so it wasn't too bouncy. The Shower is thankfully quite square, but the floor is totally wacky. Shimy Shimmy until it sat flat.

Here's a picture of the finished shower. ( I still have to trim it out around the edges, but you get the idea)

It pulls up from one end to rinse once a month, which takes about 5 minutes, and then snaps back down just by letting er go! There you have it - Hail Cedar.