What do you do when a family of four (soon to be five) share one main-floor bathroom, and that old bathroom has serious plumbing problems which cannot be ignored any longer?
Well, first you hire a guy with a really big backhoe and a plumber with 50 feet of priceless copper to come out and rip up your front yard so the main water line can be replaced, because it leaks and is so corroded that no plumber will touch it. Additionally, you store water in anything bigger than a cereal bowl (so you can flush the toilet while they're working all day), and you salvage any plants (or small trees) that might be located above the main line in the yard.
Next, you get the plumber (and a carpenter) to rip out your only bathroom and replace everything cracked, old and "harvest gold" with white and chrome. You use the neighbor's toilet for a day or two.
Meanwhile, you re-seed the front yard, which was all crabgrass and violets anyway. You replant the cherry tree, juniper, bleeding heart and ferns.
Finally, you can sit down with the carpenter and plumber and decide on a course of action for the new upstairs bathroom. I hear harvest gold bathtubs are coming back into vogue.
2 comments:
Wow, that's seriously hardcore work you're having done!
Yeah, a little more than we'd like, but that's how it goes sometimes.
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