How to change a vanity in your bathroom/laundry room.
Order vanity and faucets.
Leave them in the garage for a few months.
Take a photo of the before bathroom, include cat laying on register.
Tile firmly attached to wall (I did it myself) and wouldn't come off.
Decide to cut the drywall and tile off the wall as one unit.
Sink is securely attached to tile (because I did such a good job tiling).
Turned off water to sink and finally managed to remove pedestal sink.
Cut tile and drywall out of the wall.
Two bolts which held the sink up now sticking out of wall.
Tried to cut them off with a Dremel tool.
Unable to cut through bolts with a Dremel.
Went to hardware store and bought a hack saw.
Bolts cut off.
Looked up and saw that ceiling had a yellow spot. Sigh.
Decided to remove ceiling stipple to better see yellow spot.
Ceiling damp and now the tiny flies in my bathroom upstairs make sense.
Toilet must be leaking.
Text husband and then handyman.
Handyman will come this weekend to give us a quote for replacing ceiling and fixing leaking toilet.
Wonder why vacuum doesn't seem to be sucking up stipple very well.
Open vacuum to check the bag.
See that vacuum is full of dog hair, on top of the vacuum bag.
Vacuum hose was not attached to bag.
Remove dog hair, Katie hair (I gave her a haircut), cat litter, and stipple from vacuum.
Take photo of garbage:)
Put new bag in vacuum.
Document everything on my blog.
And now I get to vacuum everything and wash the floors, as well as myself.
Myself is covered in stipple:)
I think we may be sisters in crime. This sounds like most of my projects. Actually our theme at my house is "one step forward, two steps backwards".
ReplyDeleteI'm definitely like that. I just want one small thing, which leads to ten other things:)
Delete^^^^^. THIS!!!! Yes. Unfortunately!
DeleteI did enjoy your account of the day! You give good details. I have you beat on something. I bought everything to entirely redo Mark's bathroom in 2010. We finally got around to having it done in 2018. The new stuff sat in a shed for 8 years.
ReplyDeleteEight years seems like record. We're having our ensuite redone this year and hopefully it will be done in record time. We're also getting new windows. I see a lot of cleaning and painting in my future.
Delete😊❤️ Great post!
ReplyDeleteWhen I'm feeling down, a job usually helps me feel better.
DeleteI wouldn't even have tackled it, so good for you! Of course, I have a carpenter/contractor in the house, and in comparison I'd NEVER do it right and NEVER hear the end of it if I messed something up. When my friend Shelly was last here, she said "Let's freak him out" and as he was about to leave the yard to go to the field for the day, she called out to him "Where's your chainsaw?" We could hear his sphincter tighten from across the yard.
ReplyDeleteToo funny. I've seen videos of women walking past their husbands with chainsaws, pipe wrenches, ladders, and other such tools. Their husbands' heads always snap around:)
DeleteBetter covered in stipple than in hair, I suppose! Funny how one improvement seems to lead to multiple other improvements.
ReplyDeleteFunny, not funny. Oh well. It's worth it in the end and I'd rather do it now than in ten years when I'm that much older.
DeleteOh, how I HATE leaks and all plumbing issues! They lead to so many other problems and so much repair. Your list (or even a little bit of it) would utterly stress me out. You sound like you're soldiering on though. Hope it's soon repaired and back to normal-ish.
ReplyDeleteI'm better when I have a project and now I have a project:)
DeleteI think I understand what stipple is, and it looks difficult to remove. You've done well.
ReplyDeleteIt's not hard to remove stipple but it is messy as hell, even when it's wet down.
DeleteImpressive! Did curse words enter the scenario ? I spent my morning cleaning my daughter's freezer. With her on the sidelines, we cursed and laughed. Coffee was consumed and out of date ice-cream.
ReplyDeleteStrangely enough, there was no swearing, but a fair bit of sweating went on and my back is complaining tonight.
DeleteHow wonderful to be able to spend time with your daughter:) Was the swearing in German or English?
I know this stipple. It gets everywhere! But it's all worth it! Good luck.
ReplyDeleteI feel like I still have some in my eyes. It'll get done eventually, no rush when you're retired:)
DeleteI can't tell you how much I admire you for your skills! I am in awe.
ReplyDeleteThis is what we would call a "but first" project. You will get the vanity replaced...but first...there are a few hundred other things that must be attended to.
Sigh.
A "but first" project is the perfect description:)
DeleteI commend you on your willingness to tackle any of this. My wheelhouse does not include DIY of any kind, except painting. We got the garage painted, took four days, but it's done now. It did put any thoughts of doing interior painting right out the window.
ReplyDeleteI'm relatively handy but not overly strong. I'm also not afraid of trying something new. Painting is my favorite thing to do though. A room always looks so nice with a fresh coat of paint.
DeleteThe godfather of AI said lawyers will be out of jobs but we'll still need plumbers.
ReplyDeleteYou did a nifty bit of plumbing, Pixie !
In another life I could have run a hardware store.
GODFATHER OF AI WARNS : YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT'S COMING. YouTube.
Geoffrey Hinton, decent man. Hates what he helped create.
I did not do any plumbing beyond undoing one fastener, and turning off the water lines. That's as much as I can do:)
DeletePerhaps "Terminator" was more on the nose than we realized.
Oh the pure joy of DIY projects! But how come everything doesn't go as sweetly as DIY television shows invariably promise?
ReplyDeleteStuff happens. There is a Canadian comedian, Lorne Elliott, who had a comedy sketch about refinishing the floors in his farmhouse and one of the lines in it was, "at this point, I'm making tools". Sadly I can't find it online but it's spot on DIY.
DeleteI'm still laughing, not at your struggles, but having been in similar situations myself and having what started out to be a simple project turn into a fire-breathing monster. Been there done that, and what else can you do but laugh. Hope it gets better for you soon.
ReplyDeleteI think Ms. Moon described it perfectly, a "but first" project:) It's all fine and will get done when it gets done. The toilet, washer, and dryer all still work.
DeleteWe have a children's book (bought from an op shop) called "This Won't Take a Minute" which has become a catchphrase in our house. I have to admit that our house is being sold without all projects completed... The new house (once found) will hopefully not require too many projects.
ReplyDeleteGood on you for taking on this project.
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