This is what's been consimung my time and sanity and health for the past many days: We've been doing renovation work here in the house. The major job was to gut the middle bathroom and re-do the whole thing! ...and by that it should mean simply take off the drywall walls, floor, the old tub, vanity, sink, toilet, and put new ones in there.
Well, like pretty much all renovation work, specially those done in houses that are 40 or more years old, there were problems.
First I encountered asbestos tiles on the floor. Then completely imporperly done plumbing pretty much throughout the entire bathroom. Oh, and with leaks! ...and those leaks caused a vigorous amount of mold to grow under the house! ...did I meantion the improper plumbing? Yeah I can't get over that. We had copper pipes going into brass fixtures that went into copper pipes that went into bronze fixtures with nickel fasteners... corrosion paradise! Oh and it all tied up (with leaks) into the new plastic pipes that went elsewhere in the house, and earlier today I found an old lead pipe just hanging in there... so yeah, the plumbing almost drove me mad.
So, with those problems slowly dealt with one by one, doing new plumbing, putting down porcelain tiles on the floor, new tub, new vanity/sink, today I put the finishing touches and the bathroom is done. It's an unjustifiable amount of work for a piddly 5x8 little bathroom, but hey, it had to be done. So here are some pics.
