-Bill
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
It's alive!!
Yesterday I left the fan running all day on the under-toilet area, to make sure it was dry. I picked up a new wax ring, caulk, plywood, and some 1x pine, (for trim,) at the Home Depot. There was one spot of wood on the sub-floor that was suspect, so I chiseled it out, and back-filled it with silicone.
My morning was really busy, (but included a trip to Gartner's, which will be worth it for Christmas Dinner,) so I could not get to work on the bathroom until this afternoon.
Yesterday, I'd cut out the plywood patch and construction paper, so they were ready to be screwed in place.
Once the patch was in place, it was time to put a new floor on. This was Kricket's idea, and I'm glad she suggested it. However, I put the kibosh on her plan to make the upstairs toilet leak so she could get a new floor up there too.
This floor went down pretty easy, no really wild geometry to contend with.
At 4-ish, I was finished and ready to put the toilet back in. However, I'd left the wax ring in the garage all day and it was too cold to install. I brought it in and set it by the vent in the bathroom.
Fast forward to 9:30. We'd had company over, and after they headed home, Dad and I put the toilet back on.
One minor hitch: since I added the laminate floor to the room, my water supply line was ~3/8" too short. I was able to bend it up a little to make up the difference. I've got a little tupperware dish under just in case it leaks. I'll give it a week of observation and call it good.
Now all I have to do is trim it out, though this will have to wait until 2010. I'm two days behind on the treehouse, Dad and I are hoping to squeeze in Avatar tomorrow, and I have to have the rally car in the garage next Monday for work. Busy busy.
-Bill
My morning was really busy, (but included a trip to Gartner's, which will be worth it for Christmas Dinner,) so I could not get to work on the bathroom until this afternoon.
Yesterday, I'd cut out the plywood patch and construction paper, so they were ready to be screwed in place.
Once the patch was in place, it was time to put a new floor on. This was Kricket's idea, and I'm glad she suggested it. However, I put the kibosh on her plan to make the upstairs toilet leak so she could get a new floor up there too.
This floor went down pretty easy, no really wild geometry to contend with.
At 4-ish, I was finished and ready to put the toilet back in. However, I'd left the wax ring in the garage all day and it was too cold to install. I brought it in and set it by the vent in the bathroom.
Fast forward to 9:30. We'd had company over, and after they headed home, Dad and I put the toilet back on.
One minor hitch: since I added the laminate floor to the room, my water supply line was ~3/8" too short. I was able to bend it up a little to make up the difference. I've got a little tupperware dish under just in case it leaks. I'll give it a week of observation and call it good.
Now all I have to do is trim it out, though this will have to wait until 2010. I'm two days behind on the treehouse, Dad and I are hoping to squeeze in Avatar tomorrow, and I have to have the rally car in the garage next Monday for work. Busy busy.
-Bill
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Squishy floor.
Last night I noticed that the floor of the downstairs bathroom was kind of humped-up around the front of the toilet. Pushing around on the floor seemed to feel squishier than it should. I cut a little flap open, and sure enough, the particle board under the linoleum was soggy.
After getting back from Christmas doings at the Chamber's house today, I started taking the bathroom apart to find the extent of the damage. I removed the toilet and cut back the linoleum far enough to get to dry wood. Using a circular saw, I cut squares in the soggy particle board and started to pry them up.
The "floor" that I removed:
A lot of the floor came up in chunks, but quite a bit crumbled apart as I removed it. Most of the construction paper I had to scrape off, and the paint on the T & G sub-floor came off, (it looks like to the extent of the water.)
I'm calling a plumber tomorrow to get professional opinion on the best way to repair this. Not exactly the way I wanted to spend the first day of my vacation, but better to find out now than later!
-Bill
After getting back from Christmas doings at the Chamber's house today, I started taking the bathroom apart to find the extent of the damage. I removed the toilet and cut back the linoleum far enough to get to dry wood. Using a circular saw, I cut squares in the soggy particle board and started to pry them up.
The "floor" that I removed:
A lot of the floor came up in chunks, but quite a bit crumbled apart as I removed it. Most of the construction paper I had to scrape off, and the paint on the T & G sub-floor came off, (it looks like to the extent of the water.)
I'm calling a plumber tomorrow to get professional opinion on the best way to repair this. Not exactly the way I wanted to spend the first day of my vacation, but better to find out now than later!
-Bill
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Trying to get a Christmas picture...
Cute kids? Check. Matching dresses? Check. Getting a Christmas picture where our crazy children are not acting up...almost impossible.
Uh, oh.
This one is actually very sweet.
What is she doing?!
No one is looking at me.
Closer.
This is the one we actually used.
Where did Abby go?
Abby looking like an angel.
Libby's about to escape and Abby's looking bored.
My sister's making silly faces.
This is my personal favorite. It's like the little angel and the little devil.
Ahhhh!
Are we done yet?
Whoo! We made it.
Trip to North Bend!
Over the river and through the woods to Grandmother's house we go...or something like that. We headed to North Bend last weekend. Here are the girls hanging out with Gramps.
Libby and Gramps ready for bed.
Abby and Libby playing with Abby's John Deere tractor.
Libby!
Daddy takes the girls for a ride in the wagon.
Whee!
Abby taking Libby for a ride.
This is fun!
We took the girls to see Santa at Pony Village.
We went out to dinner at Roger's Zoo and then off to see the lights at Shore Acres.
Libby loves the lights.
Abby and Gramps.
This year, there were 275,000 lights.
Grandma and Gramps with the girls.
Daddy!
Our Christmas picture.
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