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canyonwalkerI've posted a few times recently about plumbing repairs in our house. We've had two plumbing projects recently. One was replacing some hardware in our shower in our first bathroom. That was a DIY project to replace some dripping valves and update the look of some hardware, and it's now done.
The other project is replacing the toilet flange in our second bathroom. That's necessary because of a leak in the ceiling we discovered. We called a plumber since it was a leak inside the walls. He removed the toilet, cut into the walls, and diagnosed it as a broken drain flange that would need to be replaced. That was all eight weeks ago now. Yes, it took that long for them to schedule the work to fix it.
Finally, Tuesday, a small crew came to start the work. Here's the Day 1 progress.
Part of the reason it took the plumbing company 8 weeks to schedule the work is that they realized they'd need to remove the tile floor in the bathroom and re-tile it. You can see the floor stripped down to the sub-floor in the photo above. You can also see the new piece of sub-floor (plywood) they installed. That's to replace what was rotted out by the leaking flange. Once they stripped out all the tiles they realized the rot spread more widely than first thought. Thus it was good the project lead decided to strip the whole floor.
The black pipe with the metal can sitting atop it is a temporary drain pipe sitting atop the new flange. That will be trimmed down to size when they're ready to reinstall the toilet.
I posted yesterday about moving my home office downstairs temporarily. Here's why. The photo above shows what's currently in my regular home office. Yeah, the bathroom being repaired is connected to the office. So in addition to it being super noisy up there while the workers are working, the office is currently storing a few things that aren't in the bathroom. Like the actual toilet!
The plan for today, Day 2, is that the workers will install new tile on the bathroom floor. Among other things that means they're going to be running a tile saw— which has a very loud, very high pitched whine as it runs. Working from downstairs may not be enough. I might have to work somewhere other than in the house today.
The other project is replacing the toilet flange in our second bathroom. That's necessary because of a leak in the ceiling we discovered. We called a plumber since it was a leak inside the walls. He removed the toilet, cut into the walls, and diagnosed it as a broken drain flange that would need to be replaced. That was all eight weeks ago now. Yes, it took that long for them to schedule the work to fix it.
Finally, Tuesday, a small crew came to start the work. Here's the Day 1 progress.
Part of the reason it took the plumbing company 8 weeks to schedule the work is that they realized they'd need to remove the tile floor in the bathroom and re-tile it. You can see the floor stripped down to the sub-floor in the photo above. You can also see the new piece of sub-floor (plywood) they installed. That's to replace what was rotted out by the leaking flange. Once they stripped out all the tiles they realized the rot spread more widely than first thought. Thus it was good the project lead decided to strip the whole floor.
The black pipe with the metal can sitting atop it is a temporary drain pipe sitting atop the new flange. That will be trimmed down to size when they're ready to reinstall the toilet.
I posted yesterday about moving my home office downstairs temporarily. Here's why. The photo above shows what's currently in my regular home office. Yeah, the bathroom being repaired is connected to the office. So in addition to it being super noisy up there while the workers are working, the office is currently storing a few things that aren't in the bathroom. Like the actual toilet!
The plan for today, Day 2, is that the workers will install new tile on the bathroom floor. Among other things that means they're going to be running a tile saw— which has a very loud, very high pitched whine as it runs. Working from downstairs may not be enough. I might have to work somewhere other than in the house today.
