Don't have a good "before" picture, other than this one from the house listing, but the original macerating toilet had multiple pipes exposed, from the sink to the unit, and then into the wall. Toilet was too close to the wall for code, anchors were rusty as well. Outlet is not GCFI and location not up to code.
More importantly, water was leaking up through the basement floor and into the walls, ruining the drywall.
After contractors came through and put in the french drain to the sump pump, the water issue was resolved. However, they had to cut the wall studs and destroy the bathroom tile to get in, and the tiles remaining had rough edges. The toilet was destroyed in the process as well, due to aforementioned rusty anchors.
First task was to relocate this awful outlet, my first electrical work. Honestly the worst part was getting the rusty nails out of the stud.
GCFI relocated to a position that was in code and reachable by the future location of the macerating unit. The putty here gets abolished later.
Condition of the toilet bolts... took an angle grinder to them.
Bolts gone, filed down with the dremel after. Nasty scorch scars though, stupid mistake.
Hours and hours of chiseling pass as I take out the uneven tile edges and strip down the old thinset to prep for new tiles to be laid.
Anchored a pressured treated 2x4 to the new concrete so I could sister the studs to it.
Skipping a few steps, I've built out a false wall for the new macerator unit to sit behind, hiding all those necessary pipes and wires that made the old bathroom so ugly. Not exactly conventional framing here, but I wanted enough space back there for the unit to fit without issue. Note also the new tile--somehow 1/8th of an inch larger than the old, so my grid got off track by the corner. Luckily the vanity will cover up that mistake. Had to learn to cut tile anyway to fit them in before they hit the 2x4 runners. Finally, the walls have been painted a dark color to contrast with the white trim to come.
Plumbing work is not mine. Got a good crew in and received some bad news--the original macerator was improperly hooked up (literally venting into the wall.) This was obviously the biggest expense, but they did a great job and I would have never figured this stuff out. You can see the shiny new macerator (spared no expense on that) and the water lines in copper, as well as the drain from the sink.
