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Plumbing

Deborah has been working on her house a lot. She moved in about a year ago, and has changed and updated many things. This summer, she has been a home improvement maniac.

One of the things she is working on is a bathroom. She is changing the sink and vanity, but needed a little help with the water supply lines. They were hard-wired into the faucet with no cutoff valves. She needed new valves installed. I have done that before, so I helped her out.

Beth and Deborah and I went to the hardware store to get some stuff, and got to work. Here is the before:

He is changing the sink, so this one had to go.

He is changing the sink, so this one had to go.

After the sink was gone, I cut the pipes and installed the compression fittings.

Cutting pipes is very easy to do.

Cutting pipes is very easy to do.

And here is a picture with the sink gone and the new cutoff valves installed:

The drain hole is plugged with paper towels to prevent sewer smells from coming in.

The drain hole is plugged with paper towels to prevent sewer smells from coming in.

After the sink was out, Beth and Deborah took out the toilet while I played the piano. It made digging wax off of an open sewer pipe more classy.

4 Comments

  1. Lauren

    Ha! ‘More classy’ – that’s hilarious!

    I love the ‘before’ pictures! It makes the whole process seem like I’m watching HGTV, which I haven’t seen in years. I am jealous of the whole operation, but am glad that skilled people are helping out. Don’t hang that shelf without me, Deborah! And I’m still on the lookout for a mirror!!

  2. Deborah

    I might have time to get the vanity and faucet today and was wondering about a mirror. Thanks for letting me know, Lauren.

    Thanks, Brad, for the beautiful piano music. It helped keep the dry heaves in check as I was digging out the 40 year old toilet wax.

    To all of you readers eating breakfast: you’re welcome. 🙂

    • Kris

      Thank you. It almost makes me wish I lived closer:)

  3. Jill

    It’s so disorienting when you’re in NE (not bad, just weird). I always read your blog first (B before L), but this morning, as I was reading I though, I thought, “oh I must have clicked Lauren’s first”…but then Lauren commented first! What the…? Oh right, Brad’s in Seward, too!

    Sorry for dragging you into my mental freak out this morning. Carry on.

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