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Quick House Update

At my parents' house again last night.

The crew worked on my bathroom yesterday, and didn't finish, and it was still a mess.

However:

I have a new, beautiful pedestal sink in my bathroom, and new plumbing and ring under my toilet.

I also have new sheetrock around the bottom half of most of my bathroom wall where they had to replace it due to water damage.

And my tile now looks nice.

This last is particularly significant. A few years ago, I did my first home improvement efforts in that bathroom. The person at Home Depot in the flooring department told me I didn't need anything but the tiles, so that's all I brought home. No primer. No extra adhesive. No roller. None of the things I found out later were necessary. So after hours of work, I had a new floor. Except that without the extra elements listed above, the tiles didn't stick in place. All my careful measuring and cutting and lining up of edges was for naught. They didn't come out, but they slid, and gaps opened up, and it didn't look good at all.

I was too depressed by my failure to ever get around to fixing it myself -- or hiring someone else to do it.

When we went into the bathroom yesterday evening, I was so distracted by the sink, I didn't notice the floor. My daughter had to point it out to me.

My bathroom still needs a new ceiling (next week sometime), and I have to re-paint (but I had to do that anyway), but I'm going to end up this project with a much nicer bathroom.

This evening, I need to move my bed, because they have to go through my bedroom ceiling to reach the kitchen plumbing upstairs.

And maybe, just maybe (not sure, as I had thought earlier and told kateri_thinks), this plumbing project will open the pipe between my "front door" drain (the one you always hear about overflowing) and the main sewage system. Which would solve my flooding problem.

More dispatches from the home front as events warrant.

My New Sink

It hasn't been cleaned up yet. The green on the walls is sheetrock.

But it's a very pretty sink.

In a very small bathroom.