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[figment]

We still don't have a toilet at the house. Joe and his dad tried to install it last night but the wax ring didn't seal. With some google-education, I now suspect that the flange is below the floor level by about a quarter of an inch due to the new floor we laid, and that made it hard for the wax to seal. I think we'll try one of these puppies instead of a wax ring, they're supposed to be "no fail" and man I could use some no fail.

Every single thing about this bathroom renovation project has taken significantly longer and more work than I would have expected. I know I was probably naive about it, but still.

Joe and I are both really tired of sleeping on a futon on the floor at the Lofts. It's bad for our sleep, it's bad for Bagheera to be in an empty loft with us gone all the time, it's stressful for everyone. We're both crabby and feeling down. We've had a lot of other crap going on too - not just house - but this makes me feel like my basic needs are not being met and so everything upward of that is suffering too. We're both kind of phoning it in at work. I'm not really winning at fighting off a cold. We haven't eaten a home-cooked meal in several days; we've even been getting our breakfast coffee etc. at a coffeeshop. Suck, suck, suck.

And tonight, when we might be able to try again with the damn toilet because Joe's dad is free? Tonight we have to go to the final Fire Collective rehearsal.

I am considering being brave/stupid and trying to do the toilet myself this evening before the rehearsal. With one of those Fernco things I might stand a chance. And dammit I really want to sleep in my own bed in my house. We've owned the place for almost two months!!

(Please don't tell me that eventually all will be well, I already know that. But this part is hard.)

Comments

[kalmn]

If you decide to call in pros, my plumber is big dave. Google big Dave's plumbing for his number. He's good.

[kalmn]

P.s. you can pee at my house if you need to.

[(Anonymous)]

You can buy a toilet flange insert that will sit on top of the new floor, and seal inside the old flange.

But the 'waxfree' thing sounds even easier. I'd try that.

Our old next-door neighbor is a plumber; let us know if you want a phone number for him. We've had him do a few fixes at our place.

Eric

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

At least you're not ravingly angry. That'd be worse.

K.

[evaluna68.livejournal.com]

You are much braver than I would have been. I would have called a plumber, oh, a month ago. After calling a tile guy. But then this is why we didn't buy a fixer-upper.

[mizzlaurajean.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain, having lived through several versions of this sort of thing.

If you can swing it throw money at it and hire a plumber.
If you can't take yourself somewhere that serves something closer to home cooked meal.

If it's any consolation I owned my first house a year before moving in and then spent 8 years without a kitchen, just remember it could always be worse. Also I have a camping potty you can borrow we had to use it for when our sanitary sewer collapsed and when the toilet ruined the floor under it with a slow leak that damaged the wood floor (to say nothing of actually camping).

[rubin110.livejournal.com]

Not really helpful, but a friend going through house renovations crapped in a bucket with saw dust for a week until things got fixed. Not glamorous but it's better than being in limbo. Sort of like camping, I guess. :P

Hope

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

It works.

[don-rodent.livejournal.com]

You could rent a portapotty and stick it by your back day for a dew days. Not glamorous but you could at least stay in the new place on a real bed. Pretend it's Burning Man practice.

[qubit.livejournal.com]

Home disruption stress is some bad bad stress. We went through a lot of it with our remodel last summer and we had a working bathroom and kitchen throughout.

*hugs* hang in there.

[eiregirl.livejournal.com]

Hope you got it all fixed! When we remodeled our bathroom in my first house, we had double the wax ring and it worked no problem. No leaks!

We completely gutted and remodeled our first house. We lived in the basement for the first year. That sucked and was extremely cold in the winter!