Back in the Bathroom Again
Oct. 21st, 2025 10:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerA week ago I posted 🎵 Back In The Shower Again 🎵. That was about DIY work Hawk and I did to fix up the shower in our master bathroom. The impetus for us doing that, work we'd put off for years, was the fact hat our second bathroom was soon to be out of commission to repair a leaky toilet drain flange. Well, after almost a week out of commission, it was finished off yesterday afternoon.
What's fixed? Well, the most visible change is the new tile floor. The floor wasn't the problem, though. It was collateral damage. The plumbing project coordinator decided that in order to fix the leak in the toilet drain they have to rip up a significant part of the floor. So they specced the work at replacing all the tile. The real fix, the thing that was actually broken, is the flange on the drain pipe under the toilet.
I christened the toilet yesterday afternoon. ...Well, it wasn't really the toilet I christened. The toilet is the same unit that's been there for, I think, 30+ years. Certainly we haven't replaced it, and we've owned the house since the early 00s. It's just the drain pipe I christened, when I flushed. 🤣
This morning I used the shower in this bathroom. No, there's nothing updated about it. It's got the same tile and same fixtures that were there when we bought the place 20+ years ago. I used it because our newly-updated shower is temporarily set up for Hawk's needs with her foot in a cast, and also because the newly-updated shower has a low-flow shower head. I didn't know replacing that shower head was going to result in the new one being like a toy. It was satisfying to shower under the older, higher pressure spray of our 30+ year old shower.
What's fixed? Well, the most visible change is the new tile floor. The floor wasn't the problem, though. It was collateral damage. The plumbing project coordinator decided that in order to fix the leak in the toilet drain they have to rip up a significant part of the floor. So they specced the work at replacing all the tile. The real fix, the thing that was actually broken, is the flange on the drain pipe under the toilet.
I christened the toilet yesterday afternoon. ...Well, it wasn't really the toilet I christened. The toilet is the same unit that's been there for, I think, 30+ years. Certainly we haven't replaced it, and we've owned the house since the early 00s. It's just the drain pipe I christened, when I flushed. 🤣
This morning I used the shower in this bathroom. No, there's nothing updated about it. It's got the same tile and same fixtures that were there when we bought the place 20+ years ago. I used it because our newly-updated shower is temporarily set up for Hawk's needs with her foot in a cast, and also because the newly-updated shower has a low-flow shower head. I didn't know replacing that shower head was going to result in the new one being like a toy. It was satisfying to shower under the older, higher pressure spray of our 30+ year old shower.
