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Last weekend I we got a bit done, I am posting a bit late but better late than never!  I have been very busy lately but there is progress, I promise!  Here is proof!  I hope everyone is doing wonderful!

Laying the TPO in the shower. I cut a piece out of one of the window cut outs (this is my roof and side-wall material). I layed it on the floor adn cut the edges just so they overlap eachother, not to create an area where water can leak out anywhere. Its pretty much a cup at the bottom of my shower.

I have been told that it used to be very common to use asphalt shingles in the shower which makes good sense to me, they are after all designed to shed water. After laying the bottom in I cut another piece to lap over the top. I don't know that this is entirely necessary but to be safe i wanted to go a ways up the wall.

You can see where I cut out the drain location and sort of how I lapped the TPO membrane.

Putting the draain back together. This pieces sandwiches the TPO into place to make sure it drains properly. Under this TPO there is a layer of thinset that is built-up to slope to the drain.

and the drain cover goes on.

Close up shot of the drain cover. It's pretty, I think I would prefer a silverish one but they didn't have it, this will certainly do well!

You can see the space left, this space will be filled with thinset to create a strong base and provide a tile surface. I am thinking about using a natural stone for the floor surface.

Overall. Well as overall as I can get with my phone camera.

I put some 2x4s in to create nooks for my shampoo and soap. More pictures later.

On to the concrete backer board. I didn't know the best way to cut this. Looking online it seems that scoring and snapping was preferred for dust reasons. I know I am a girl but this wasn't possible... I scored and scored but it wouldn't snap! Second best was a saw with large teeth so that dust particles were bigger adn less breath-in-able. That worked so with dad's help that is what happened!

I also purchased my shower light. Should work like a charm!

Dad did most of the heavy lifting as I was SUPER sore having finally stopped taking my pain pills from breaking my back three months ago. I have pretty much been worthless but I am happy to finally be getting my wits back about me. It's amazing how cloudy that stuff makes you feel! Here dad is using the grinder to cut out the opening for the ceiling light.

Ceiling is in! Dad once again saves my tail. I couldn't have done anything without him this last weekend, I wasn't even doing much as it was and I needed breaks often! I was short one sheet of backer board or we would have finished the shower last weekend!

These are the screws used for the backer-board, they are deadly!

I also missed some furring so that we could screw the sheets in, we got some in so it's nice and sturdy!

First wall piece goes in

and the back wall goes in!

getting ready for some tile!, this is the controls

ad those nooks are now water proofed. The backer board will go on top of these pieces of TPO which just help maintain a waterproof layer. These nooks back up directly on the drywall in the fidge nook so I would hate for them to spring a leak and ruin that.

And a nice Sunday dinner with my family, Jeff makes the best (no joke) lasagna and they have the purtiest tree!