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December 10, 2005
Bathroom roots?
In addition to finishing off a couple of other small tasks, this afternoon Trent & I dismantled the leaking toilet in the basement bathroom (if you could call it that). As with other projects, nothing seems to have been installed properly.
The flange bolts that are supposed to hold the base of the toilet to the floor were not the proper bolts (with two flat sides), but standard bolts with round heads. Removing them required significant elbow grease, to the point that Trent ended up snapping them off with the vice grips.
Once we removed the toilet from the floor, we had to clean out the partially blocked drain. However, instead of being blocked with what one might expect of a toilet, the drain was occluded by a large number of tree roots. Go figure.
We spent about half an hour making a list of the necessary plumbing, electrical, and subfloor supplies, then wandered back into the city to visit Home Depot. We managed to find pretty much everything that we were looking for (after a bit of searching), except for treated 2"x4" lumber (which Trent'll get in the morning). The only lengths that they had anyof were 12' and over, none of which would (a) fit in Trent's truck and/or (b) fit down into the basement of the house.
Posted by plainstext at December 10, 2005 08:13 PM
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