We thought we had hit rock bottom in the renovation. That night where everything was going wrong, and then our coffee table broke? Yeah, we were pretty sure we were movin’ up and movin’ on. Nope.
The tub is in (yay!) but not draining properly. Christian first assumed that he’d made an error in connecting the bathtub to the drain. We had a plumber help with the rough in and then Christian did the rest. So, off to Home Depot for another drain kit and another $25 down the drain (no pun intended. Okay, maybe it was). After hours of work and more failed attempts, it was clear that this wasn’t the core problem. A few inches of water would take an hour to drain. Not exactly our dream bathtub.
So, we called another plumber and he was at our place within an hour. He quickly found the culprit: someone had done a handy-man special to our drain in the past. And by handy-man special, I mean literally plugging the larger pipe with some sort of goop in order to affix the smaller pipe arm to it. Check it out:
A plumbing professional I am not, but I can tell you pretty quickly what is wrong with this picture….doesn’t it look like chewing gum was used to seal this? We learned that this was linked back even to our old shower not draining properly. We’re starting to se an unfortunate theme based on the five-elbows-to-make-a-pipe situation that we uncovered a few weeks back.
So, out it came. We are so happy to report that the new tub is draining perfectly, however, our powder room and only other bathroom in the house (well, toilet and sink at least) looks like this:
We have now added to our list the need to re-drywall the back wall of the powder room. Currently, we have no light or mirror in there….so I’m doing hair an make-up at work this week. Or not at all. I’m kind of over it.
And our spirits? Shall we NOW tentatively say: “there’s no where but up from here?”. Better not jinx it.
happy healthy huggetts 