Day 1 of our master bathroom makerover was all about destruction. That was difficult on me emotionally! Day 2 was a little better, because it meant the new plumbing for the second sink would be put in. DH labored all day.

Throughout the day he made numerous trips to the store to get different and more plumbing materials. After dinner, he turned the water off. Late that night, it was finally all cut to size, connected and soldered together. It was time to test it by turning the water back on! Enlisting my help, we each grabbed our cell phones. He went out front to turn the water on, while I sat by the big hole in the floor looking for leaks. He rang my cell, turned on the water, I heard gurgling and then....oh no! Water blew from one end and was drenching me! He quickly turned the water off and ran into the house and upstairs. Meanwhile ds sleepily came running in with a panic, fearing that the house was on fire. I got him back to bed and grabbed old towels to soak up the water and dry myself off. DH got the pipe resoldered and we tried again....well, I didn't yell this time. I couldn't find a single leak!
Day 2...mission accomplished!

Day 3 dh went to his day job with the USAF. While we started math lessons in the morning, ds kept sneezing and started coughing. I had been having more trouble with allergies over the weekend...it had to be the dust that filtered out of the construction mess into the master bedroom and possibly the rest of the house. I got the kids settled in seatwork and I crazily worked on dusting all the dust in the master bedroom. Having recently dusted, I worked to dust items off to put in storage until the remodel was done. So now even our bedroom looks dismally bare, yet full of construction materials. Sigh...at least this is only for a season. Thankfully, by the time I had our bedroom clean, ds had stopped sneezing.
I also had to remember to keep the bathroom door shut. Because of all the water that sprayed out of the pipe the night before, we had to be sure everything thorougly dried out. The door had to be kept shut so that our cat would not go adventuring. Could you imagine the troubles that would cause?
Meanwhile dh arranged for the inspector to come on Day 4. DH will have days 4-7 off to work on the bathroom. When he came home in the evening, he spent the time taking "Surround Sound" wire that had been stapled to corners and ran it into his new hole. Now I have a corner to repaint in the living room. |
• Oct. 2, 2007 - Untitled Comment
We moved two years ago, and have on and off stuff being done ever since. I think we are pretty much done, finally, hopefully for two decades! I'm told it's never over, but we're ready to take a break!
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Hang in there!
Lori