A few of you heard our fiasco yesterday with our bathroom leaking, but here is the story and a couple pictures. I was giving the kids a bath upstairs getting ready for church and Justin comes up to let me know there is water coming from the ceiling in the downstairs bathroom (that is directly below the upstairs bathroom) and pooling on the floor. So Justin ended up staying home from church to figure out what the problem was. He started with removing the paneling and sheetrock from the area that was leaking and then realized that we would have to replace the whole ceiling so he exposed it all. Luckily the water wasn't too bad and the wood was just damp and not rotted or moldy. He figured out that the water was coming from the overflow valve on the upstairs tub so he replaced that and tightened everything up. By the time the kids and I came home from church, he was done and mostly cleaned up. We are going to leave the ceiling alone for a little while to let everything dry really well and make sure there aren't anymore leaks before sheetrocking it again. I am so blessed to have a handy husband that isn't afraid to get his hands dirty and figure out problems and has gotten very good at doing all kinds of handiwork around the house. Just another reason I love him! Here are the pictures of what he was dealing with.
BTW...the toilet is brand new as of a week or two ago. A simple "tighten the toilet bolts" project turning into "let's buy a new toilet" project. Justin has gotten very good at replacing toilets though and had that whipped out in no time.
3 comments:
That is no fun at all. Good thing you had Justin around. I definitely need Garth for that stuff.
Sounds like you caught it early. Good thing he can fix it so fast. It's always something with homeownership, huh?!
That is so nice that Justin is a handyman, that makes things so nice. Jake is not so inclines :(
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