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Looks like Tam my favorite MOD (merchant of death) is taking a leave of absence from the Scawry Evilll Sales of black rifles to do some writing and recuperation.  Go on over and hit her tip jar…  She can be found over at books bikes an boomsticks

I can just bet that now we will be getting daily updates with even more snark content.  I for one can’t wait…

K

Well things are finally slowing down a bit here at the House.  I finally have a bit more time to get mundane things done (like blogging).  My wife is helping my dad with the last of the drywall and mudding up of the bathroom.  This leaves me with some time to do things like take care of the two trees that fell in the last week when the particularly nasty storms came through town.  I will also have time to weed-whack the lawn as my wife and father mowed it last night while we were waiting for the CPVC glue to dry on the last of the plumbing.

So this morning I was able to head to home depot and pick up the shower doors, at the first home depot no less.  I was also able to do a return run to home depot which netted me 200 bucks in excess / unused parts and pieces for the remodel.  So I am glad that things have slowed down a bit at home because work is going to be wide open throttle for the next week before I have to leave for the Toledo Pro Solo on thursday afternoon.

So I will try and get a few posts out that deal with what I have been doing with my limited free time lately.  I know that DirtCrasher is waiting to find out how my Dirt Bike purchase went.

Well we are in the home stretch.  Here are a few pictures of the progress.

This was our first surprise of the remodel (we already knew that the floor around the bathroom tub was shot), when we pulled up the green linoleum tiles we found that there was a previous patch job done on the floor.  Unfortunately the patch job was shoddily done and looks to have been done just in time to sell the house to us.  We found that the plywood patch was marked as manufactured in July 99 and we bought the house in october 99 so they just did enough to sell the house.  Goodie.

Once we pulled the crap patch out of the floor we decided to just rip out the whole floor to the joists and do it right.

Well I almost only fell though the joists twice.  no one died or even got hurt.  Woot…

I spent a whole bunch of time trying to find a waterproof flooring material but was not able to find anything really revolutionary in the time alloted for the task.  We went with a vinyl flooring material that is completely floating on the underlayment so there was no gluing necessary and you were able to walk on the flooring right after you finished putting it down. 

It went down in only a couple of hours thanks to Mom and Dad.  While they were laying the floor I was was furiously driving from Home Despot to Home Despot to Lowes to Home Despot trying to find a right hand tub in white.  Hopefully finding the shower doors will not be quite so bad.

Well at least the tub went in with no problems and looks and more importantly sounds nice.  Nothing is worse than a tub that sounds like a steel drum, or a fiberglass boat hull.

I had the same run around looking for a vanity that did not look like crap.  I now know where all the Home Despot and Lowes stores are in a 40 mile radius of my house.  I have visited every one of them almost twice now trying to find materials that will ensure that the bathroom looks good.  Home Despot and Lowes are pretty good for low end stuff and plumbing fittings, but if you want upper end stuff be prepared to hit every one to find better quality merchandise.  I was kind of bummed out about not being able to find solid sheeting material for the tub surround that was of decent quality so we are doing tile again.  Sigh…

On a side note we finished the plumbing to the new bathroom and got it all hooked up and working as of 8:48 PM just nine days after we started ripping out the floor.  So in another day or so the shower will be finished and the shower door will be in place if I can find one at Home Despot. 

Wish me luck as the hunt will be on tomorrow morning for the shower doors that we want to put up… I hope to find it in the first Home Depot trip of tomorrow.

Well after spending 12 plus hours the whole house is re-plumbed, with no leaks I might add.  I was a bit worried about the joints between the new copper in the down stairs bathroom (two years old) and the CPVC, as I was using these push on couplings called SharkBite.  I mean come on who would call their company the “Cash Acme”, but hey I am a risk taker and they seemed like the easiest way to go from 1/2 inch copper to 1/2 inch CPVC.  A couple of the joints were not exactly strait and I was worried that they may leak.  Turns out that at 12:41 last night I had nothing to worry about, the fittings worked like a charm and I would recommend them to anyone after using them in this project. 

Turns out I had more trouble hooking up the reverse osmosis filter under the kitchen sink with simple 1/4 inch plastic food grade water hose than I did with the 8 SharkBite connectors in the system.  That connection alone gave me more fits than I really wanted to deal with but I got it licked finally just before dinner today.

So now tomorrow we go back to our previously scheduled bathroom remodel.  Hopefully we will be done with the sub floor fix sometime tomorrow.  We probably would have made a major dent in the sub floor today but I got second hand airplane ick from my Dad and I could not even bend over without feeling like I was passing out.  So we made a trip or two to home despot and lowes to check out flooring and tub surrounds.  Nothing good in that department at all.  Just soo much crap from china.  Any one out there have any suggestions for a flooring material impervious to HOH???

Oh, it looks like the toilet flange is buggered. 

Sigh…

Well I was awoken rather early by a concerned wife, who let me know that there were some wet tiles in the basement bathroom ceiling, and what appears to be some dripping from the ceiling.  The sole remaining full bath that we are now all using since we tore out the upstairs bathroom seems to have sprung a leak. So after making my wife rush to take her shower (as she is the only one that has to have one before heading to work) I poked my head up into the ceiling, sure enough there was a leak.

Upon further inspection it was determined that when we disconnected the water from upstairs we may have disturbed the pipes and caused a pin hole leak to rear its ugly little wet head.  After my wife finished her quick shower and we turned off the water it was time to decided what to do. 

I had two choices, one being fix the pinhole with a patch (it had been done in the house 3 times), or go out and replace the entire house plumbing with CPVC pipe.  It seems somewhere along the line while I was buys playing with the alligators, I had forgotten that I had started out trying to draining the swamp that is the upstairs bathroom.  Oh well,  I really want to blow out my remodel budget with other niggling things like a new chain saw and a whole new water distribution system for the house.  So at the bright and early time of 8AM we set out for the dump with the last of Day two. 

Once we finished with the dump run it was time for

  trips to home despot… 

Seven hundred dollars (we have found after several plumbing jobs that it is not possible to complete a plumbing project will less than four trips to home despot) and 4 trips later we had everything to finally finish off the plumbing job.  As I type this I am waiting for the CPVC cement to finish curing so I can take a fricking shower.  I checked every fitting 3 times to ensure that they all got glue, as I found on the second check that I had missed one fitting.  I am saying many prayers that it all does not leak.

Well Day two was a continuation of destruction day.  We finished off the destruction by ripping out the shower wall and closet.  Once we finished that it was time to knock out the vanity and the toilet.  Both of those tasks went off without a hitch and in a few hours we were done except for the floor.  During the process of ripping off the linoleum tiles we quickly discovered that they previous owners of the house did a patch job in the bathroom.  We discovered that they had laid down the tiles on very thing plywood.  And under that very thin plywood we found that there was a major patch job done in the center of the bathroom.  A very sub par job by the former owner.  Dad and I have already decided that we will do it right and rip out the entire bathroom floor to the joists and replace the sub floor and underlayment. 

The remodel gets more expensive by the minute.  And to add insult to injury we had a very bad thunderstorm yesterday which brought down a major section of the big maple tree in the yard as well as another tree in its entirety.  Oh,  did I mention that my chain saw is dead. 

Off to bed, grumbling the whole way…

Day one was destruction day.  You see our upstairs bathroom had sprung a leak between the tile and the tub.  We discovered that leak when we noticed some water on the basement floor. It had soaked through the floor and sub floor in order to leak to the basement Now who knows how long the water leak had been occurring but it was past time to be fixed.  So hence destruction day, and here are the results from day one.

So after one dump run with 560 pounds of crap, here is the bathroom as it stands now.

Dad looks thrilled to have spent Monday afternoon ripping out the bathroom.

Here is another angle where you can see the shower stall.

And at last here is an angle where you can see through the holes in the sub floor next to the hole for the tub drain Those are the holes are where the tub leak rotted through the subfloor.

More tomorrow when I finish demolition…

Sure they should…

don’t they teach these yobs anything about trigger control???