Leveling the Toilet
I’ve been trying to finish a project so that I can write about it, but so far things have been going slowly and with several projects in flight at once, we’re not getting any one thing completely finished. Another challenge is that we’ve wound up having to do a lot of things that weren’t in the original plan. I knew the toilet wasn’t attached in the upstairs bathroom, but hooking it up has turned into an extensive bathroom project. Once it’s done I’ll cover it in a post, but for now enjoy the picture of the level toilet and the not-level floor.
During the toilet escapade I wound up having to re-mount the bathroom pedestal sink to the wall and redo the drain. That’s finally complete, but it took much longer than anticipated because I didn’t have the right parts or tools and as always it took multiple trips to the store to resolve it. The good news is that’s at least finished. We have a working and not leaking sink upstairs, which helps quite a bit.
Bathroom in progress
We’ve been re-tiling the floor in the upstairs kitchen, which Sarah will be posting about once it’s done. We’ve been fumigating and baiting the roaches with limited success (they are incredibly resilient, as you know), but are probably going to bring in an exterminator. The drop ceiling and track lighting in the back bedroom upstairs is down, another round of garbage bins have been emptied and re-filled in a day, though the backlog is starting to diminish.
Removing the lighting in the bedroom was interesting. They’d added a light switch in the wall, but it was just wired into the receptacle, which is also where several outlets were wired in. After we used the tester to get the circuit turned off I disconnected and re-wired it. The results as usual aren’t pretty but they’re a substantial improvement over what was there.
Ceiling receptacle
We now need to strip the cracked paint, clean the walls, bevel the top of the drywall that they put over the plaster with joint compound so that it blends in somewhat, tape everything off, and eventually paint. Then we can install carpeting and a ceiling fan and the room will be ready. Since this is just one room, and one of the simpler ones at that, I’m not feeling optimistic about moving in by the end of the month.
July 7, 2011 at 5:44 pm
wow! that is the exact same floor tile I had in my house.
July 8, 2011 at 6:46 pm
Go Home Depot!
July 8, 2011 at 8:19 pm
IT’s the “I’m trying to sell my ugly house so I will use ugly tile to hide an even uglier floor.” tile.
July 8, 2011 at 8:38 pm
For us it’s the “least expensive without being heinously ugly” tile. Also thin enough to flex over the wavy floor.
July 8, 2011 at 8:40 pm
That’s why we got it. We couldn’t afford to put real tile down. It kicked us back though because we didn’t know we were laying over top of other peel n stick. The water my kids splashed on the floor seeped through the cracks and rotted the sub-floor underneath. not good on a second story bathroom. I thought the tub was going to go through the floor when I found it!
July 8, 2011 at 8:43 pm
Ooh, yeah, not good!