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Homeownership, Part 2
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The rehab continues.
I wanted to put in one of those pop-up stoppers in the working bathtub (the trip lever kind which was in there didn't work very well). We removed the trip lever without incident, and I went out and bought a dumbbell wrench to remove the drain itself. That worked quite nicely, so I put in the popup drain. Then my father-in-law crawled under the house to check the new drain for leaks while I ran some water down it.
Uh-oh. Leaks abounding...but not, as it turns out, from the new drain.
The overflow and drain from the tub were beautiful brass piping, intact and lovely. However, somewhere along the line, someone had just kind of jammed some PVC drain pipe into the outflow of that brass assembly. They put some sort of cement in it, but in the course of pulling out that drain, I had apparently put enough (i.e. any) strain on it to break that cement, and it was now leaking.
So out we go to the hardware store. We buy an ABS overflow/drain assembly, a few elbows, a male threaded ABS end, and a female threaded PVC end. We put in the new ABS drain, cement on the male ABS thread, screw on the female PVC coupling, and attach that PVC to the existing PVC which then goes down to the cast-iron drainpipe. And, miracle of miracles--it works!
My father-in-law has poured a thin layer of leveling concrete over the repaired and sealed plywood floor in the other bathroom. We will apply slate tile onto that concrete. Unfortunately, with the tile, it is very likely that the door of the bathroom will no longer clear the floor. We'll have to either shave down the bottom of the door and insert a new block of wood into it (it's hollow-core), or get a new solid interior door and shave it down a bit.
I've finished painting all of the rooms.
I'm tired.
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