(not the 1st) and stopped using the shower until we could figure it out. Never did. (We did still shower of course, but 4 of us had to share the bathroom in the hall-not fun) We decided then of course that the entire thing needed to be redone since we could not find the leak. Well guess what? After getting a professional to come in and tear it all out, we found the leak. Oh, but not just one. There
were 5 different leaks! 1 at the drain, 1 on the bench (sit down part in the shower)
, 1 leak where thebench and wall met, 1 leak at the tub faucet, and then of course the 1 we found this summer in the
pipe where the tub drained from. It is fun. So now all the tile, wood, everything must come out, and
it must be redone. The good news is I get to pick nicer tile (the old stuff was the beige/white cheap stuff
you can see in the top photo that surrounds where my jacuzzi tub once was!) and even better is that it is
being done by a pro, and not us or a tile guy we found while roaming the isles at Lowes. The bottom photo
is my poor pathetic jacuzzi tub wrapped in a tarp sitting in my bedroom. These photos all depict what was accomplished in 1 day! Yippe, all tile torn out, wood framing removed, etc. Hard to see but if you click on the
2nd picture it is the hole under our tub that looks right down into the basement! Boy was that fun for the kids. Bubba likes to drop cars down there and go downstairs to see where they land. Good excercise for me.
Anyway, I'll keep everyone updated on the progess. Since DeRell is NOT doing this, and he is going out of town
in a week for 10 days we all know that this means it is a project that might actually get completed for once!
(sorry honey, it's the God awful truth). Hoping to get some more "projects" done in his absence =).
Now a little note about the weather. Monday, much to my chagrin, I had to work all day. This meant loading all the kids up for school/daycare, getting myself ready, etc. We had a nice amount of snow and howling winds on Saturday night. Translation - practically snowed in on Sunday. Could only get 1 hand & dustpan out door to try to move enough snow to actually open the door. Which is quite funny for the "Banana Belt" here where it is unseasonably warm with little to no snow in our neck of the woods. Took me 20 min to drive to church...oh but i digress...back to Monday. So DeRell puts on the propane heater in the garage to load up some tools and organize his van before heading out.........this gives us all a false sense of the real temp of course. We get in the truck, open the garage & head out for school. Gotta love the onboard outside temp gauge on mornigs like this. It registers a nice...balmy practically..temp of 36 degrees. (the garage temp i am sure) I can handle that! Oh but by the time we've reached the end of the driveway it's dropping faster than a girls dress on prom night. The at the end of the road it registers -1. Ok, ok i think, glad the kids have the scarves, mittens, etc. with them.
It becomes a fun game as i drive and Danielle shouts out the new record low per the little reading on the rearview mirror. It hit -16 and I was ready to go back home. That is not even a civilized numer and WHY am I out in that? UGHHHH. Ilove Montana, I Love Montana, I LOVE MONTANA. Not even all caps can make that statement true! By Tuesday we were only negative 8. Twice as "warm" I tell myself. Ha! Well, it's Weds, and boy were we excited this morning when the reading was -1. Whoopie practically bathing suit weather. Hope you are warm wherever you are.....just remember....when you think you have it bad someone has it worse.
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