I wanted to update everyone on the small bathroom construction and the under the both bathrooms kitchen sink broken pipe. Here is the original pipe break. Please remember Ron is 70 years old. Hugs
So that was just past the wall inside out master bedroom bathroom. But to reach it Ron had to take up the floor in the small bathroom off the hallway and climb / twist his way in around the pipes and then crawl on his belly to the break. He had to work laying on his belly.
This was the hole he had to crawl / twist down.
Here is where the project stands now. Our bedroom bathroom has a thick rubber tarp over the plywood floor, the small bathroom entire flooring has been removed. This morning we talked about what should be placed where in the new lay out. Hugs.
This picture shows him standing where he had to crawl down, notice the layout of the pipes. 
The entire floor and insulation has been removed in the small bathroom. He is right now cleaning up all the cat litter he put down, 60 pounds to dry up the leak, along with any wood pieces or stuff that fell into the hole while he worked. Hugs
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That is a huge project (or it is for me). Looks like it’s coming right along, though. I love seeing remodel projects like this.
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Hi Kymber. Yes it is going to be a big project because it is going to encompass both this small hallway bathroom but also remodeling of our large master bedroom bathroom. I will try to keep you up to date with it all. My husband used to remodel office buildings, he could walk into a space, hear what the costumer wanted, and make it happen. I don’t have that skill, and talking to him this morning over what could go where wore me totally out. It is going to be grand when done. Hugs
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He sounds amazing! It would wear me out, too. lol I can’t wait to see it when it’s done!
Hugs!
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That’s horribly familiar for our household….we have a joke that “every ‘little’ household repair ends up with 7 trips to Ace and tearing up the driveway” (which has actually happened one time when water started flowing up and out a crack in the middle of our (concrete) driveway. That time is was “redo all the water line from the street to the house” time. I wisely decided this was NOT a DIY fix…and called in professionals)
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Hi Bruce. Wow. That is a nightmare. Ron calls our house management by crisis. He was redoing our Florida family room so I could move out there in the room with all windows and light. Because even though he built the spare room for me, it is too dark and enclosed and it is causing me to experience depression and my abuse as a child. The reasons he built on to the front of the home and put me out there in the first place. But even as he bought the new flooring and had done all the new electric … this leak happened causing the entire focus of repairs / rebuilding to change. So he plans to do the one bathroom, finish getting the other room ready for me, then fix our bathroom bedroom. Hopefully it will work. He is 70 yrs old and stubborn … but he is letting me help more than ever before. Hugs
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In our case it was mainly the 68-year old galvanized water line that the original builders laid up the middle of the driveway for some reason.
This was the next to last major house system we’ve redone since we bought the house in ’94: we had to get the electrical done immediately, since it was no longer up to code, then a new roof (including partial roof rebuild) in ’97, we had to get significant sewer work done in 2000-ish, the water in 2022 and we replaced our ancient gas furnace and evaporative cooler last May with a new heat pump system w/rebate thanks to Biden.
I’ve had to do a little interior plumbing work, but fortunately it’s all above ground our house is on a slab so I don’t have to do that nasty work Ron was doing on his belly in the dark.
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Hi Bruce. We bought the house in January 2007. What the seller did not tell us was the house had lost the roof in the past and taken a lot of water damage. They covered up decaying press board floors by nailing the carpet down around the failing part using the carpet hooked to the good part to hide the sagging floors. In early March 2007 the refrigerator fell through the floor. I went through three more of those before Ron had to pull up all the floors and replace them. Then when he was redoing the front of the house, our living room, he was opening the wall to put in a large double door. He found that all the 2X4 studs were gone, eaten away by prior termites. Well the prior owner did tell us there were termites but that they had the house treated and they were all gone. He failed to mention all the damage. Ron had to rebuild all the exterior walls except half of the south wall and the rear of our bedroom, the west wall. Inside he has replaced all but one wall. He has changed the floor plan 4 times now, so every time he would repair a wall he would expand a room, make a better kitchen, a better bathroom, what ever. But he was younger then. Now he is 70 and tired. He wants this to be the last time. Oh I forgot the many times he had to change the electric or the plumbing. The lucky thing for us is he understands all that and can do it. I would have been lost trying to do it myself. I agree with him, this has to be the last time. Hugs
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Hi Bruce. Oh I forgot to mention that after Ian tore our home apart, we paid AMS $17,000 to put a metal roof over the entire house. It has leaked every time it rains. They have been here four times to fix it normally it takes three weeks or more to get them out. One time the skylight fell out the ceiling. The last time the repair person was here he took pictures of all the new damage and I explained we couldn’t repair the ceiling tiles nor paint or put down the new flooring because the roof keeps leaking. This last time he said he is going to recommend that they simply replace the entire roof. But we have not heard back and we had to call again last week due to a major leak. Hugs
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Our house is like that, as well. For every little thing, get the job started and then there has to be 99 other things done before the original task can be finished, at least some of which 99 other things need the attention of an appropriate professional.
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Hi Ali. Boy do I understand what you and Bruce are saying. Ron says he can never finish a project without many extra trips to Home Depot or Lowes, or having 6 more things break / needing repairs first. For example, he was redoing the family room which is almost all windows so I could move out there. He ran all new electric and had bought new flooring. Then the $17,000 new roof started to leak and the company has repaired it 4 times and it keeps leaking. They are now talking about replacing the entire thing. During the removal of the small bathroom floor he hit a water line, needing repairing and moving that out of his way. We have water lines under the house that because of how many times things got redone both by the prior owner and us, go nowhere and are caped off, but still are connected to the water supply. Very tiring isn’t it having all these home repair struggles. Luck for us, Ron has the skills and knowledge to do all this work himself and we don’t need to call in expensive professionals. Hugs
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Hugs back!
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