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