Bathroom(s) Blues

So the good news is that our plumbing is fine…no pipe damages, no problems with the drains and switches, knobs, etc. — no leaks there!  But where is that feng shui shower of water coming from?  I guess there are OPENINGS between the tile wall and tub in several places that allows the water to seep into the dry wall, down the dry wall, into the subflooring and the drywall ceiling and vertical wall of the bathroom below.  Sounds like a lot of tearing out and looking at damages, repairing damages, and putting back the bathroom together will be needed.  Marc Stevens said he’ll give me a call to give some advice and hard liquor to help us decide the next steps.  Haven’t heard from him yet, but soon, I believe.  Maybe Brian McBean could be the next step. 

So for now, I can take a bath upstairs without causing more showers downstairs or just stay stinky like stinky.

Stephanie is excited about the prospect of one or two new bathrooms and added, we can knock a hole on the wall between her and Brandon’s old room and Sweetie can have it as her own room.  We can also just put up a wall and door in the hallway so she can have her own suite.  It’s better than having people living in your backyard (another blog one of these days).

 

 

“I’ve been dreaming of a non leaky bathroom…”

How long can you tred water?

So the other Summer Adventure begins…Marc Stevens’ company is sending a plumber out today to look at the mushy wall in the downstairs bathroom and the leak that’s causing this diaster.  We’re probably looking at a major job here and perhaps work needed to be done upstairs and downstairs and everywhere else.  I pray that we can afford this time wise and money wise.  When harken back to 1980, one will recall that I lit the fire under Shapell’s feet to finish our house on time so we can move in.  This was especially important since we had finished renting back our home and the new owners were anxious to move in.  So I threatened Shapell for not keeping their word/verbal contract, that they will have to do some major upgrading in place of finishing when they said they’d be finished, that they would have to pay for a rental and storage of our goods while we wait for them to finish our Tassasara home, and lastly, personal vendetta against them personally and their pets.  Maybe that’s why the house has so many problems, or maybe because the house is almost 30 years old.  yeah 30 years old…Henry and we are the only original owners that I know of on this street.

So now we have to deal with the plumbing.  egaaads!  showering at the YMCA or sideyard (hahah)

actually ours isn’t as bad as this, but it gives one a hint –