SlickTony
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It's not that we're not handy, it's just that every time we set out to do a repair project, it always ends up being more complicated than we expect it to be. Plumbing especially, and especially anything that has to do with the bathtub. I don't know what it is with houses nowadays--in the house I came up in, the bathtub had its own set of shutoff valves. They don't now. There's supposed to be a sound economic reason they don't, but it makes things inconvenient. If you need to replace a sink faucet, you only have to turn off its water supply; anything to do with the tub and shower, and you have to turn off the water supply to the whole house.
And we'd remembered the time we had to replace the core of the sink faucet and it was stuck in there so bad we ended up having to get a whole 'nother faucet and we spent the whole day working on it and were late to a party. So when the shower started leaking in our bathroom we procrastinated doing anything about it. But when the celing in the downstairs bathroom fell into the bathtub, we then, of couse, had to do something.
We couldn't find the core puller, so we had to buy another one; and we couldn't find the main water key, so we had to buy another one of those, too. And when we tried to pull the core of the faucet, we couldn't make the puller work--it was like the screw that came with it was too short. It wouldn't connect. So after fooling with it all afternoon we went back to Lowe's and found out that the screw was, in fact, too short--it had been cut or broken off short. The guy at Lowe's was nice enough to give us the screw to another puller without asking for the receipt--he said he'd just get a screw from the screw department.
So we went home and succeeded in replacing the core without too much hassle--the retaining clip wouldn't go in, but we called the Moen hotline and found out that the ears of the core needed to be at 12:00 and 6:00. After that it went in fine. We turned on the water again and found that we had corrected the leak.
But the downstairs bathtub is still full of tile and broken wallboard. No problem, we can toss that out--but we have to replace the ceiling of the shower. I helped my dad remodel a bathroom from the joists and underlayment out, but this was back in the 60s and I did not lead the project.
I've figured out that we've got to do is this:
Am I leaving anything out?
And we'd remembered the time we had to replace the core of the sink faucet and it was stuck in there so bad we ended up having to get a whole 'nother faucet and we spent the whole day working on it and were late to a party. So when the shower started leaking in our bathroom we procrastinated doing anything about it. But when the celing in the downstairs bathroom fell into the bathtub, we then, of couse, had to do something.
We couldn't find the core puller, so we had to buy another one; and we couldn't find the main water key, so we had to buy another one of those, too. And when we tried to pull the core of the faucet, we couldn't make the puller work--it was like the screw that came with it was too short. It wouldn't connect. So after fooling with it all afternoon we went back to Lowe's and found out that the screw was, in fact, too short--it had been cut or broken off short. The guy at Lowe's was nice enough to give us the screw to another puller without asking for the receipt--he said he'd just get a screw from the screw department.
So we went home and succeeded in replacing the core without too much hassle--the retaining clip wouldn't go in, but we called the Moen hotline and found out that the ears of the core needed to be at 12:00 and 6:00. After that it went in fine. We turned on the water again and found that we had corrected the leak.
But the downstairs bathtub is still full of tile and broken wallboard. No problem, we can toss that out--but we have to replace the ceiling of the shower. I helped my dad remodel a bathroom from the joists and underlayment out, but this was back in the 60s and I did not lead the project.
I've figured out that we've got to do is this:
- Measure the area of the former ceiling, and buy a piece of greenboard, cut to fit
- Estimate the number of 4"x4" porcelain tiles we'll need to put up there
- Buy the tiles, which will be $0.42 each
- Lay the greenboard on the floor and arrange the whole tiles on it.
- Outline where the whole tiles are with pencil
- Outline the spaces for, and cut the tiles on the edges
- Maybe number the spaces and mark the back of each partial tile with a sharpie?
- Nail the greenboard to the 2x6s up there
- Prepare tile adhesive
- Stick tiles on greenboard
- Grout thoroughly, let dry, and pray it all stays up.
Am I leaving anything out?
