You all already know about the leaky toilet, I've rebuilt once, and rather than spend another $50 or so fixing, the same day I was leaving work to buy the stuff to do so, the Plumbing manager caught me at the register. Seems he found a price reduction on some clearance low-pro 1 pieces. (Some $450 marked down to $120). So I do the math, and buy three. Ones giving fits, the others are 20 years old as well, why not?
Haven't installed any yet, as my bathrooms are carpeted (I know, sooooo 70's), and am going to eventually tile everything in the house, for the most part. I decide I might as well tile the bathrooms before all this and get a head start.
Already got all the tile I need and picked out months ago (Also clearance, I'm cheap where I can be).
(No Moo boat wallpaper HArry, we don't carry it, it can't be ordered, and if I could and WOULD do that, I think that would only serve to intesify the haunting........if that's what this is.)
Yeah......gonna be more complicated than that, as the hallways will have to be done at the same time, as well as the entranceway to the house. OK, still not so bad. He also wants to rip out the cabinets, etc and do under there in case I go with pedestal sinks in two of them (Thinking about that), still not a bad idea. So I go Yeah, why not? Contract him, Then this.
You, mostly, already know about the Water Heater. Another matter, but ties in and complicates things, IMMENSELY. Leaking pretty good, but still working, so I got a licensed plumber set up from work to come replace it, for $80 this weekend. I buy all the crap. YEA!! great deal. He comes over last nite for a look see, and the heater is in the garage, but backed up against the only wall (3 foot portion, really)common to my basement. And APPARENTLY, I haven't seen this water before because its been running down the wall, rotted out some wood behind the tank, been running along the basement wall, ruining the furring strips holding up the peneling down there, as well as some of the paneling, then under a very small portion of concrete to the floor drain (Fortunately, THAT worked). Obviously, theres also a good, solid Mold issue......the guns were locked up........good thing!
After he showed me the part where it was running down the wall of the garage, I had already started drinking. Not beer either. By the time we reached the basement to take a peek under a piece of paneling and under a small portion of carpet, I was foregoing any mixers in the Rum, and by the end was cocktail glasses of Single Malt Scotch saving room for 1 ice cube.(Something I may never be able to afford again after all this! lol).
Welcome to home ownership, lol. (it gets a lil worse, but that was the estimate he gave me using his current subcontractors on an "official" basis. I STILL get to pay a fraction of that, which is most unpleasant in and of itself!)
Bob, I will NEVER make fun of you again about your kitchen!
Ray
Maybe I'm lucky, in a way, and all the gremlins are out of the boats in the garage and they migrated to the house! Where's Ghost Hunters???
Thank GAWD for friends in the industry!
