Been Awhile!

Been awhile since I last posted.  I've been super busy: painting the cottage, replacing broken windows, tearing out a floor, rebuilding it, installing a new hot water heater, built a feral shelter for the cats, repaired mom's table stand, and a bunch of other fixer-upper stuff.  I'm looking forward to winter so I can kick back and take it easy.  : )


Anyway, as I promised Lo, here are some pics of the bathroom disaster:


This first two pics are the disaster that had to go.

At this point, I'd ripped the floor tiles out.

If you look closely, you'll see stints trying to hold the water heater up.  They didn't work.  I ended up putting 2x4 pieces between the heater and wall.  It worked pretty good.

The lovely floor after tearing out the toilet & hot water heater.  The board that ran along the bottom had been eaten out by termites.  That's what caused the whole thing to collapse.  The tough part was since the plywood had set in water for so long it had pretty much turned to thick glue.  All my tools were sticky as can be.

Better view of the mess.  The portable replacement floor I made is from scrap wood that was left when my brother remodeled his house and wood from my handicap ramp I took down. Yip that wheel you see in the upper right hand corner is my walker.  : )

The end result.  Mom had a lot of leftover linoleum from when she had her bathroom remodeled, so I put that down.  I still need to tear out the rest of the tiles and finish with the linoleum, but that can wait.  I'm in no hurry.  LOL


Anyway, I love my little tank.  It's 30 gallons.  I wanted a 20 gallon one, but no one had it, so this little baby is mine.


So, there you have it folks!  A week long project that made me rue the day I was born. LOL