Bathroom update

For those few of you who need to know such things, the rebuilt second floor bathroom has been functioning for a few days now and everything is kind of nice.

As you may recall, or you could scroll down and read the posts, what started out as a simple update to an existing bathroom became a complete makeover. Moving a toilet, removing a claw foot tub, inserting a new shower, a new sink and a super high efficiency toilet was supposed to be a one week job.

Instead, the drain on the new shower had to be replaced a few times, and in cutting the drain pipes free at one point, my illegal alien plumber, Paco, cut into the drain line for the recently reinstalled toilet. Water pipes leaked, water from the toilet would drain to the living room floor. Finally we had to pull tiles from the living room floor and repair damage from below.

Once that was done, I naturally thought that nothing else could go wrong. Of course, once we turned all the water on in the new bathroom, a new leak surfaced, but this one was because someone, possibly Paco, possibly an Israeli spy, had failed to tighten the shower fitting. Now, once that was repaired, everything has worked right. The super toilet is perfect. The shower is even better, because when we replaced the existing stuff, we also ran larger feed pipes, which means water pressure is quite high, making the shower both comfortable and intimidating.

Today, along with all my other duties as both a full time blogging hero, a chef at a four start fast food restaurant and an elected member of a secret society, I will try and repair the torn up ceiling in the living room.

Has there been a lesson learned? As my dear friend Sarah Palin might say, "You Betcha". We are hoping to buy another house in our little ghetto, this one to completely gut and use as a studio. By my estimates, it should take no more than a week to do everything. Then again, I believe my initial estimate for a simple bathroom was a week.