Bathroom

We’re not even done with the bus but we honestly think that this has been/will be the hardest part of the bus. Simply because this room is where so many areas come together. One wall would be the interior of the bathroom but would also be the interior wall of the “bedroom” as well as the hall. The walls also needed to be able to hold tile in the shower portion of the bathroom so thickness of the walls came into play.

The first thing we did was build the walls around the area that the compost toilet will go and the hallway wall. Two walls, easy enough. Then came the shower/tub…

Truth be told we actually put this part off for as long as we could..we would do trim work around the couch, ran wires and installed our backup camera, installed our water dish to begin plumbing, we even built the live edge desk while putting off the shower/tub. Then we realized it had to happen eventually so we set out to finalize the location of the tub liner. Once it was where we all agreed on it we made our first mistake….we began building the frame for the tub as well as install concrete backer board and eventually a few boxes of subway tiles! We totally overlooked building and ensuring the drain! By skipping the drain and building the frame for the tub it was infinitely more difficult to install the drain when we finally came around to our mistake. there was already tile and it wasn’t coming down!

The bathroom steps SHOULD have been: What we did:

  1. Build walls/frames 1. Build walls/frames

  2. Run plumbing (to include…THE DRAIN!!!) 2. Build frame for the tub

  3. Build frame for the tub 3. 2x4 studs and concrete backer board

  4. 2x4 studs and concrete backer board 4. Some tile

  5. Tile 5.Run plumbing (to include the drain!!!)

We never claimed to be experts in this so we were and still are learning! We haven’t chosen a toilet yet so if you have a suggestion please let us know! Once we choose one we’ll include the installation and maybe a review of it!

Materials we used:

3 boxes of subway tiles - Home Depot

1 Gallon of premixed grout - grey - Home Depot

Lippert RV tub - Amazon

Cement backerboard behind tiles - Home Depot

Rubber shower liner under tub - Home Depot

Half size vanity & sink - Wayfair