I worked on a bathroom this morning. A buddies Aunt had hired a contractor to come in and finish it for her. She wanted tile in the shower/bath tub area. But he just put up regular sheetrock, not even greenboard

He asked what I thought of that, then I got pulled in.
We cut it all out 5' above the tub and put in 1/2" hardibacker with a BUNCH of silicone just because!
Then we fixed a galvanized pipe that the threads had broken on, but it was screwed into cast iron drain pipe. He wanted to take the galvanized pipe out of the cast and couldn't understand the problem with that!
It took a LOT of convincing, but I finally talked him into using a rubber sleeve with hose clamps into PVC.
Longer drawn out story, sorry.
I bid it for eight hours, done in five. I also bid this hourly, I said eight to cover my butt with the "what if's", she was rather shocked, and very happy
