Lesson learned - I suck at plumbing and will leave it to professionals

Really this lesson started long before this picture was taken and it is a direct result of their work (and my shoddy mistakes).

Things to notice:

#1 - Concreteboard subfloor - You may recall that I had ripped up the molding/rotted subfloor below the toilet and tub edge. I even replaced some of the underlying framing before setting 2-3 sheets of this concreteboard in order to level it back up to the height of the rest of the bathroom subfloor. This being an old sagging building I didn't get the floor completely level in all directions so my bathtub had to be shimmed to level once installed.

#2 - Toilet hole - When adding all this subfloor, it increased the distance to the drain pipe and required an even longer extension than I planned so the final plumber needed to save me there. I'm also not entirely how much space I was supposed to leave when I tiled the floor for the toilet flange.

#3 - Shower diverter (handle) - One thing to note that I didn't learn until later after tiling was that the plumber who installed the shower diverter got a little careless and didn't put the plastic "mud cover" back onto the metal diverter to protect it while we put the wallboard up and tiled. It just made the life of the next plumber who installed the final fixtures harder with the hole being slightly too small to screw it in, but lesson learned to look for this next time. You'd think he could have told by my job site that I was a rookie and wouldn't know these things (plus it's in the freaking box), but I digress.

#4 - Shower head blue roughed in pipe - What the fuck is that? I still don't know, but that's how the first plumber roughed it in and I had no idea how to install the actual showerhead to it when I was done tiling, so it's a good thing that he was coming back for more work anyways.

#5 - Shower's raised ceiling and vent - It's a little hard to see, but you can make out how the ceiling has been extended. You can also see the new vent opening slightly and where I patched the old vent hole in the lower ceiling with green board. The window now lets the full amount of light into the bathroom.

#6 - Bath tub installation and drain - I saved this one for last and for #6, the devil's number, because this was what made me throw in the towel and call a plumber. Ultimately I learned the lesson that I shouldn't do this again, ever, because it ended up in my brand new tub getting a little chipped near the drain while I tried to remove the just-installed drain. That's right, I installed the tub drain and then had to uninstall it immediately because the drain was leaking! The whole process of maneuvering the bath tub into place, setting it level, and connecting the tub drain in the process is a complete bitch and I'll never try it again.

I hope somewhere is this mess of frustration and profanity that you can find something to take away and learn for your own remodels. Again, my advice is to spend the money on a pro.