tales from norwich: Major Progress on the Bathroom!

After nearly 3 months of walking across a plywood floor - we finally have tile under our feet again! After discovering that we needed to move the water supply pipes for the sink from the floor to the wall we enlisted the help of Morris De Luzio's very own Jim De Luzio ( Designer by day, amateur plumber by night!) to show us the ropes. The fruits of our first plumbing endeavor are seen in the photos below:

Tony and Jim hard at work making a tin-can shield for soldering.

Soldering the hot water valve into place.

The hot water has been moved! Woo-hoo!

So, due to scheduling conflicts with "Plumber Jim", we decided to fly solo on finishing the move of the cold water supply line and the PVC waste pipe. Were we up to the challenge??

I think so!!!!

First off, the difficult part about the cold water was that we couldn't drain the pipe. So, in order to rid the pipe of this unwanted water, we had to call in ....the Cardio-plumber! Who knew you could cath a copper pipe???!!!

After ALOT of intense torching we're in the home stretch!

Pipes are moved!

Floor is patched.

After finishing the "pipe move" we could finally tile the floor (only 3 months behind schedule) and put in our new Kohler Commode! After hours of scraping the old mastic adhesive from the plywood, we laid the first sheet of tile. This was followed by grouting, wiping, wiping and more wiping of the "haze". Then once we left the grout for about 8 hours we gingerly walked across the fresh tiles and hooked up the new toilet. Check out our DYI master work below: