What happens with two threads on the same blog combine? Well let’s see…
On the fifth day, it is clear to me that my body has almost completely adjusted to the diet. I don’t like it, but it did. Once I have time to think about amending my methodology, I’ll have to do so, but now, I have a problem.
The toilet in my main bathroom was leaking. This much was clear. I had changed the wax ring in the past, so I had an inkling that there was a soft spot down there somewhere.
I’m going to spare you, dear Reader, all of the details. Toilets are taboo. Things go down there that we don’t talk about. Just let it be known that I determined that the flooring had to come up. Once the flooring came up, then the piece of luon had to come up. Under that, there was the half-inch plywood had to come up as that was rotting and soft as well. Under that… well, little else had to come up.
See, I should have expected to find exactly what I found. After the work in the basement and with the wiring upstairs (not to mention that stucco wall upstairs… oh and the rage rises inside me again!!!), why would the bathroom be “clean” under all the layers of paint and sheet vinyl flooring? I found old pipes, open on both end, various wires, broken cinder blocks, all under the remnants of the original hard wood floor, which was rubbery soft – where it existed – and missing in most places. “Ah ha!,” I thought, “there’s my problem right there.”
Tomorrow, over most of the floor of the bathroom, I’ll try to build up the two inches and more of floor to get back to the level that meets up with the living room. I’m not ambitious on this job…
…I am used to the amount of food, yes, but I’m still very hungry. And right at this moment, late in the evening, after a day of demolition, a cheap beer and take-out sounds really nice.
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