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Thursday, March 29, 2012

Year of the House - Half Bath Update, Part 2

By now we should be done with our half bath, right? Wrong. Seems there was a little measurement issue that I may or may not have warned Andrew about. And that measurement issue may or may not have turned out to be as I had suspected. Thus, our toilet did not fit back into the half bath and was off by a quarter of an inch. Crap. (Did you think that pun was as funny as I did?)

There was also the small part about water leaking from the sink water hookups under our new cork floor. And the part about a fan air drying it for a 24 hour period. And so Andrew was back at square one, re-hooking up the sink, with not a minute left in the weekend to start worrying about moving the pipe for the toilet.

Now the sink is back in its place and we have been leak free for another 24 hour period of time.


Andrew is now busy fixing the piping under the toilet, so that we can finally move the toilet out of our living room and back to its proper location. First, he moved the drain collar over about 2 inches, which meant doing a little cork floor patch for the adjustment as well. This is what it looks like in the bathroom:


And this is what it looks like in the basement in our laundry room:


Yes. That is a gaping hole in the drywall that had to be opened in order to get everything back to working condition. So as I traipsed down to the basement to do some laundry the other night, I found Andrew sitting on the dryer with some PVC pipe in hand, getting some serious work done. And by serious work, I mean making a telescope out of PVC pipe.


Finally, after the fun was over, he got back to work. Lilah decided it was best if she stayed out of this mess this time around and opted to be lazy in her bed instead.


Hopefully all will be finished in the next few days so that we can finish up the rest of the original project, which was to install the horizontal wood panels. Here's to hoping that the next time I update you, the half bath is at least back in working condition with little left to be done!

3 comments:

  1. Very interesting! I'm stopping by from Blogging Buddies. It looks like "Lilah" is ready for the renovation to be finished (love that picture - she's so cute).
    Angie
    www.godsgrowinggarden.blogspot.com

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  2. Oh my, I'm learning all about pipes in one of my design classes now, so I know exactly what he had to do to fix it. It's a huge pain when you're only off by a smidge. Ugh! (That's exactly why I'll never act as my own general contractor, even though my design program will train me to be. Forget that!)

    The wood looks amazing, though. I'm so excited to see the whole room. :-)

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