Plumbing horrors

[ozma914]

We bought a bathroom sink last night, and already have a newer toilet waiting, thanks to my daughter and son-in-law. This morning we spent some time trying to figure out the maze of plumbing in the basement, which has resolved itself more or less into two different but interrelated systems, installed decades ago in an already standing house by

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[petzipellepingo]

As someone who just went through a plumbing issue, I'm sending along massive good vibes.

[ozma914]

Not too many vibes ... don't want to loosen the joints.

[kazzy_cee]

Wishing you a leak free renovation!!

[ozma914]

What ... I have to do it without any leaks?

This is going to be harder than I thought.

[cornerofmadness]

good luck

[ozma914]

Boy, don't I need it ...

[cornerofmadness]

that bad?

[ozma914]

My skills at tools are something akin to Gilligan's skills at getting off the island.

[millysdaughter]

Carpet in a bathroom is insane. The monkey was not only untrained, he was falling down drunk.

[ozma914]

Every single room in the house was carpeted when I moved in, except for the downstairs bedroom -- which was apparently designed to be a sewing room, last time major renovations were done. Maybe they didn't want needles lost in the carpet? We're tearing up the kitchen carpet, too.

[millysdaughter]

It was probably not carpeted because it was the only floor that did not have holes of some sort in the linoleum.
A carpeted kitchen is as bad as a carpeted bathroom - if not worse.

[ozma914]

From what I know of the former owners, they would certainly nbe capable of covering up problems and leaving them for someone else. But the downstairs bedroom/sewing room didn't have linoleum -- it had a very nice hard wood floor, which we'd hoped against hope would be under the carpet in other rooms. No luck!