Here is How The Hallway Toilet Adjustments Are Going

The opposite day, I had somebody ask me how the adjustments within the hallway lavatory are going. Properly, thus far, I’ve managed to alter my thoughts about 15 occasions, get about half of the fixtures swapped out, and flood the lavatory.

Oh, yeah. I’ll have buried the lede there. I flooded the lavatory. 😀 It was such a silly, rookie mistake, and after I give it some thought, I’m so embarrassed at myself for making that silly mistake. Fortuitously, I don’t assume I did any everlasting injury. However earlier than I get to that, let me again up a bit and go over another particulars.

A few week in the past, I had a kind of days the place I used to be busy with different issues and didn’t actually have time (or fairly, I didn’t need to take my restricted time) to work on the studio. So I made a decision to spend what time I did have swapping out the fixtures within the hallway lavatory. That they had been sitting there of their bins for a few weeks, and I used to be anxious to swap out the entire silver fixtures for the brand new Delta Champagne Bronze fixtures.

I figured the issues just like the gown hook, hand towel ring, and bathroom paper holder could be quick and straightforward since I purchased the identical model, related types, and identical sorts of merchandise, so I made a decision to begin with these. I anticipated them to make use of the identical sorts of brackets, so I assumed it might simply be a matter of unscrewing the outdated one from the bracket and screwing the brand new one to the identical bracket.

Properly, none of them had been quick, nor had been they simple. Regardless that the fixtures had been the identical model and regarded related, that they had utterly completely different brackets. WHY, DELTA? WHYYYYY???? However, no drawback, proper? I’ve put in most of these issues 100 occasions earlier than. It might nonetheless be fast and straightforward…or so I assumed.

I used to be having a kind of days the place every little thing was an issue. Once I tried to place the brand new wall anchor within the wall for the screws for the hand towel holder (I exploit these sorts of wall anchors that screw in, fairly than having to drill a gap after which hammer them in), the anchor actually screwed during the drywall, leaving a giant gap behind. I’ve by no means had that occur earlier than! So I needed to set up the brand new towel ring decrease than earlier than, and now I’ve this mess that I’ve to restore…

And let’s not even discuss the truth that I took off a part of the trim and tile as a result of I simply can’t assist myself. Once I get a thought in my head (like utterly eradicating the accent tile and never changing it with one thing new), I’m like a canine with a bone, and all self-control goes out the window. So, lengthy earlier than I’m able to do any of the massive tasks in right here, I’ve already torn up the tile. Now I’ve to dwell with it till I’m able to sort out the partitions in right here, which can be some time on the charge my studio goes. Like I mentioned, my self-control disappears after I get an concept in my head.

Anyway, the remainder of the fixtures (those I assumed could be quick and straightforward) went about the identical. I stripped a number of screws making an attempt to get the brand new bracket on the wall for the brand new gown hook. I couldn’t get the outdated wall anchors out of the wall in order that I may set up the brand new bathroom paper holder, and on and on.

My fast and straightforward venture was shortly turning into one frustration after one other. So for now, I’ve this case — no bathroom paper holder, and the roll of bathroom paper sitting on the countertop. I’m certain our friends love strolling in to this. 😀

For the reason that “simple” tasks had been going sideways, I made a decision to simply dive proper in and swap out the bathe/tub fixtures. I anticipated these to be tougher, and certain sufficient, they had been. However after spending about half-hour making an attempt to get the outdated tub faucet off, I lastly wrestled it off and was capable of get the brand new one on. Swapping out the overflow drain was quite simple.

And sure, the bathtub is filthy as a result of I saved stepping in it with my footwear on after being outdoors. However that story is arising.

So I received the tap and the overflow drain swapped, after which swapped out the trim on the opposite factor. What’s that even referred to as? I’m speaking in regards to the deal with that really turns the water on and off.

I used to be simply going to swap out the trim bundle and depart the outdated valve in place as a result of it appeared to be an identical to the brand new one.

Because it seems, they weren’t fairly an identical. They had been barely completely different, making it troublesome to tighten the screw for the beautiful new deal with onto the outdated valve. I imply, it was on there, and I don’t assume it might have come off, however it wasn’t as tight as I assumed it ought to be.

I wished to depart it and name it good, however y’all know the way my thoughts works. I simply couldn’t let it go. About half-hour after putting in that deal with, I made a decision that I actually ought to go forward and swap out the valve.

Are you able to guess what occurred? Sure, that’s proper. With out going outdoors and turning the water off first, I began eradicating the deal with and the trim, after which I proceeded to tug and pull on that valve to take away it. WITHOUT TURNING THE WATER OFF FIRST!!!

Oh my gosh, what a silly, rookie mistake!!! At that time, I used to be simply so pissed off with the entire different issues at that time that my thoughts simply wasn’t targeted. I tugged and pulled on that valve, and for a couple of tugs, every little thing was advantageous. After which it reached the purpose the place it wasn’t advantageous anymore.

Water began spraying at full pressure out of that valve. It was spraying into the bathtub, onto the ground, up in direction of the ceiling. EVERYWHERE. I used to be utterly soaked in a matter of seconds. I panicked, and for what appeared like an eternity (however was in all probability about two seconds), I simply froze and didn’t know what the heck to do. Then I snapped out of it and realized I wanted to get a towel to cowl the valve in order that the water would go into the bathtub as a substitute of spraying throughout the room.

However in fact, I wasn’t doing any of this quietly. I used to be yelling, “OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH!” And since I used to be being very loud and animated, Cooper (my very massive, goofy, 100-pound canine) received all excited considering we had been taking part in, so he was all below foot and wouldn’t get out of my means. I lastly managed to get him sidelined for a couple of seconds, simply lengthy sufficient to get out of the lavatory, my soaked garments dripping all around the ground, so I may seize a towel and drape it over the valve. That didn’t work fairly in addition to I had hoped as a result of the valve didn’t stick out very far, so the towel saved slipping off.

I received the towel on there in addition to I may, however it wasn’t good, and it wasn’t protecting the entire water contained inside the bathtub space. However I didn’t have time to waste. I bumped into the sunroom to seize the device (no matter that factor is named) to show the water off on the curb outdoors.

Properly, we don’t have lights in our sunroom, and it was getting too darkish to see, so I couldn’t discover it. I began panicking once more, and yelling, “I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO!!” All of the whereas, Cooper is scorching on my heels, leaping and twirling and getting all excited at this new recreation we’re taking part in.

Now take into account that all this time, I’m panicking, operating by way of the home, yelling, making an attempt to get Cooper out of my means (as a result of he nonetheless thinks we’re taking part in), leaving a path of water from my dripping garments all over the place I’m going, and poor Matt is mendacity in mattress and has completely no clue what’s happening. He’s simply listening to the commotion.

So after a couple of minutes of this chaos (what appeared like an eternity to me, however was in all probability not lengthy in any respect), he lastly yells to me, “What’s going on?” To which I yelled again at him in my most panicked and frantic voice, “I’M FLOODING THE HOUSE!!!!! I’M FLOODING THE HOUSE, AND I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO!!!” 😀 There’s nothing so useful as panicking and yelling quite a lot of hyperbole in the midst of a aggravating scenario to an individual who has no capacity to assist, proper? 😀

Anyway, I couldn’t discover that device to show off the water, so I grabbed my massive pliers and ran out the door to the entrance yard to show the water off. Then I couldn’t get the quilt off of the water gauge outdoors, so I needed to run again inside the home, seize a flathead screwdriver, run again out, pry that lid off, after which I may lastly flip the water off.

By the point I received the water turned off and headed again inside, there wasn’t a single sq. inch of that loo ground that wasn’t lined in water. However happily, none of it discovered its means outdoors of the lavatory into the hallway apart from what had dripped off of my drenched garments. I used to be so relieved to see that. (I wasn’t so fortunate the final time we had the crap geyser.) However there was additionally water all around the vainness, the countertop, the partitions, the bathroom…nearly every little thing.

So I received the entire water cleaned up, swapped out the valve, put the entire fairly trim again on, turned the water again on (with that device that I lastly did discover), and now the brand new bathtub faucet drips continuously. It gained’t cease. Fixed. Dripping.

So for sure, that loo and I’ve been on a break. I’m going in there when completely obligatory, however aside from that, we’ve simply wanted to spend a while aside. I haven’t even cleaned up my shoeprints out of the bath. I haven’t put away the instruments or thrown away the outdated fixtures (that are nonetheless lined up on the facet of the bath). I don’t need to give it some thought. I don’t need to have a look at it. I don’t need to even contemplate swapping that valve out once more. And when I’ve to go in there, I simply use my tunnel imaginative and prescient, do what I have to do, and ignore every little thing else in there. I simply need to spend time in my fairly studio for now.

In order that’s how the hallway lavatory adjustments are going. How are your tasks going? 😀

Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and embellish the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You possibly can be taught extra about me right here.