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sarahmichelef) wrote2008-10-23 08:40 pm
sarahmichelef) wrote2008-10-23 08:40 pm
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Two things I forgot yesterday and another adventure in homeownership
1) I love the archaeology of putting on my parka for the first time of the season. Found: a drawing by TRex, a necklace I'd been looking for, one cloth napkin and a bunch of paper ones.
2) I can't for the life of me remember what #2 was.
So. Adventures in home ownership part the Upstairs Shower Leak Again.
OK, so here's what it looked like a while back. Cracked. Where water had been dripping down into the study off and on. For I don't know how long. Eventually the plaster started crumbling completely.
So then a while ago it started doing it AGAIN and we called a new plumber and he cut a nice hole in the ceiling.
To date, he has replaced the drum trap and the drain assembly, fixed a leak where one of those joins wasn't quite tight enough, and looked at it a lot when we could get it to leak and it would never behave (read: leak) for him. All through this, we were keeping in the back of our heads that the problem might be with the tiles.
Last time I showered and it leaked, I took pictures and did a lot of investigating myself.
And then I called the plumber back. Today one of his guys came out and started poking around and discovered that there's a good centimeter of give in the wall around the soapdish. Water is OBVIOUSLY getting in there. What does this mean?
Yeah, it means they're going to be ripping out that whole wall and putting in new drywall and re-tiling. Hopefully between the existing tiles that they can save and the extras we have in the garage, we won't have to buy all new tiles. If we do, though, we'll probably end up redecorating the whole bathroom - right now it's dark green and peach. Not my preferred color combo, for sure. We'd go lighter, bathroom-worthy paint (the existing paint transfers if you swipe the wall with a damp sponge), and a light-colored, cool-hued tiles, probably a gray a sage; the floor tiles are forest green & sage marbled.
2) I can't for the life of me remember what #2 was.
So. Adventures in home ownership part the Upstairs Shower Leak Again.
OK, so here's what it looked like a while back. Cracked. Where water had been dripping down into the study off and on. For I don't know how long. Eventually the plaster started crumbling completely.
So then a while ago it started doing it AGAIN and we called a new plumber and he cut a nice hole in the ceiling.
To date, he has replaced the drum trap and the drain assembly, fixed a leak where one of those joins wasn't quite tight enough, and looked at it a lot when we could get it to leak and it would never behave (read: leak) for him. All through this, we were keeping in the back of our heads that the problem might be with the tiles.
Last time I showered and it leaked, I took pictures and did a lot of investigating myself.
And then I called the plumber back. Today one of his guys came out and started poking around and discovered that there's a good centimeter of give in the wall around the soapdish. Water is OBVIOUSLY getting in there. What does this mean?
Yeah, it means they're going to be ripping out that whole wall and putting in new drywall and re-tiling. Hopefully between the existing tiles that they can save and the extras we have in the garage, we won't have to buy all new tiles. If we do, though, we'll probably end up redecorating the whole bathroom - right now it's dark green and peach. Not my preferred color combo, for sure. We'd go lighter, bathroom-worthy paint (the existing paint transfers if you swipe the wall with a damp sponge), and a light-colored, cool-hued tiles, probably a gray a sage; the floor tiles are forest green & sage marbled.