Potty Talk aka My Kingdom for a Nut
Saturday I made my first little foray into the wide world of plumbing. The hot water on the sink in the main bathroom wouldn't turn on. I took the handle apart and saw that the teeth in the stem sleeve had been worn down so that they weren't catching the teeth on the stem. So they need to be replaced. Easy. But these aren't standard parts, so we have to replace the whole faucet. Vors and I buy a faucet, supply lines, and a basin wrench, disconnect the old supply lines, but we can't get the 30-year old nuts loose that are holding the old faucet to the sink and counter. We try wrenches, the basin wrench, vice grips, more oil, pliers, no dice. So we're down to replacing the whole sink, but the hardware store doesn't sell the basins alone, they're all inset into the counters. We've been wanting to remodel the bathroom anyways, so we say screw it, we'll do the whole bathroom. But before we take out the toilet, we want to have a working toilet in the house - we got rid of the one in the master bathroom in the spring. So we're leaving the main bathroom as it is and starting back in on the master, which has sat half-denuded and abandoned for months.
I banged up most of the rest of the tile last night. Anyone know of anything useful to do with 10 gallons of used 1x1 inch tile? Probably 90% of them are fully intact, but they've all got crud on them from the boards underneath. Which, by the way, were rotten in places.
I didn't know a think about floors. Under the tile are boards. Rotten boards. What's under the boards? I guess I'll find out:)
You can't fool me - its tortoises all the way down.
The rotting appears to have been caused by water damage from the old toilet and sink. Hopefully. Hopefully its not from a leak in the pipes in the walls/floor. I don't know if that even makes sense, since the damage was under tile, but the tile couldn't have been completely water tight.
So far, despite being foiled by one nut (Vors eventually got the other one), and not being rewarded with sweet juicy tomatoes, I like plumbing better than gardening. The turn-around time and trial and error is, like, immediate, instead of "I tried to plant carrots in this patch of soil and nothing came up, and now we're getting frosts, so I have to wait a year before I try again." Besides, my tomatoes were awful. I even fouled up the rhubarb harvest again this year. I had thought our rhubarb was invincible.
I banged up most of the rest of the tile last night. Anyone know of anything useful to do with 10 gallons of used 1x1 inch tile? Probably 90% of them are fully intact, but they've all got crud on them from the boards underneath. Which, by the way, were rotten in places.
I didn't know a think about floors. Under the tile are boards. Rotten boards. What's under the boards? I guess I'll find out:)
You can't fool me - its tortoises all the way down.
The rotting appears to have been caused by water damage from the old toilet and sink. Hopefully. Hopefully its not from a leak in the pipes in the walls/floor. I don't know if that even makes sense, since the damage was under tile, but the tile couldn't have been completely water tight.
So far, despite being foiled by one nut (Vors eventually got the other one), and not being rewarded with sweet juicy tomatoes, I like plumbing better than gardening. The turn-around time and trial and error is, like, immediate, instead of "I tried to plant carrots in this patch of soil and nothing came up, and now we're getting frosts, so I have to wait a year before I try again." Besides, my tomatoes were awful. I even fouled up the rhubarb harvest again this year. I had thought our rhubarb was invincible.