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Feb. 28th, 2003 10:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckScott has gotten the bathroom sink hooked up and the pedestal in place. We spent several days without a sink because Scott kept discovering that the parts he had didn't fit together. Mom had left him a note explaining that the sink pipe was 1.25 inches while the drain was 1.5 inches which seemed simple enough to deal with. What Mom didn't mention was that we needed something to deal with the size differential *and* to join two male bits of plumbing. Scott kept going to Home Depot and getting more stuff to try. He's now annoyed with himself because it turns out that the hardware store near Kroger had exactly the part he needed (getting to Home Depot on his way home from work is slightly more convenient than going to that hardware store even though the latter is closer).
Scott's also managed to muffle the banging when we flush the toilet. There's still a noticeable thud as the water starts and stops abruptly, but it's at most 25% of what it was (our bed no longer shakes from it). We're still going to need to bring in a plumber, though, because we can't fix the sink drain ourselves. It'll keep running uphill until we pay someone to fix it.
Scott's goal for the next couple of days is to get the towel racks and toilet paper holder up. We also need to decide whether or not it's worth trying to clean out the wastebasket that was in the bathroom. It's now living in the snow on the back porch because when my mother cleaned out the sink drain she dumped the crap there. It smells really, really terrible. I'm missing having a wastebasket, though. Scott has a tendency to leave his trash on the bathroom floor rather than carry it to a basket in another room, and it's annoying me.
Scott's also managed to muffle the banging when we flush the toilet. There's still a noticeable thud as the water starts and stops abruptly, but it's at most 25% of what it was (our bed no longer shakes from it). We're still going to need to bring in a plumber, though, because we can't fix the sink drain ourselves. It'll keep running uphill until we pay someone to fix it.
Scott's goal for the next couple of days is to get the towel racks and toilet paper holder up. We also need to decide whether or not it's worth trying to clean out the wastebasket that was in the bathroom. It's now living in the snow on the back porch because when my mother cleaned out the sink drain she dumped the crap there. It smells really, really terrible. I'm missing having a wastebasket, though. Scott has a tendency to leave his trash on the bathroom floor rather than carry it to a basket in another room, and it's annoying me.
