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The Dirty House (The Miracle on 42nd Street)

Saturday, October 15, 2005

We have no bathroom...




It started innocently enough....I asked that we replace the toliet and the sink before we moved in. I wasn't asking for an ENTIRE new bathroom, I was okay with the awful vinyl tile for now...
I spent 8 hours removing the wallpaper from the 80s (1980s) a few weeks ago, and then discovered that there was "some" water damage behind the toliet. This is what I saw today when I walked into the living room (yes, that's the ceiling and Joe's backside visible through the gaping hole).

I proceeded upstairs to survey the project. ...panoramic view below.

The first photo is where the toliet used to be. The window is directly across from the door, and the sink used to be to the left of the window. Oh, and there used to be drywall.



Below is the wall to the right of the window. Note the new hole in the wall framed with the lighter color wood.













The photos below are the view from inside the bedroom closet on the other side of the wall.

Why would we make a new hole in the wall? Because our grand vision is to have the clawfoot tub against the shorter wall under the window. Unfortunately it's about 3 inches longer than the width of the room.


This is where the toliet used to live. You can see the refinished living room floor below. After examining the toliet plumbing, it was determined that this will require a professional who knows how to work with cast iron....


Bascially 50% of the bathroom floor has been removed, partly due to rot and partly to access the plumbing that needs to be moved.


On a positive note, Joe is learning how to do plumbing all by himself. A lot of work has been done, but we still can't turn the water back on in the house.


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