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[written a week ago]
I'm sitting here on Friday night all Grrrrrrrrr because the power been off for almost 24 hours now. This has cramped my style considerably because I had planned to write an extensive diary but now can not due to limited battery. Had to fire up the generator to recharge all my stuff.Good thing we got this little Verizon battery portable Hotspot. just charge it right up. We used to have Hughesnet and if the electric went off, it went off too. With battery powered lights, laptop, Hotspot, etc we'r mostly just fine. Going out to dinner soon.
Been working on the downstairs bath. Now you may remember this, those who have been avidly following my output that I demo'ed and removed a little popout section of this. That meant I had to redo that bath, completely finishing the inside, including new vanity and shower enclosure.
So I started working on that and then saw how effed up the plumbing was so am completely redoing that and reinstalling/reworking all the supply lines also .
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UPDATE!!!!
You guys don't know what I had to go through to get this done. My power's been out for the last 31 hours. I got that far before the battery ran out on this computer last night. I had to get up at 0430 and start up the generator just so I could get this fricking thing done. Don't know wny but for a monthly effort, Bad days always seem to precede it.
Anyway wanted to show you some effed up plumbing. GTP will get a kick out of this. A 3" toilet drain comes in on the left in 3". A vanity and a bath/shower drain, both 1 1/2" come from the right: see where its joined? This then goes down into a 4" pipe through the most dorked up connection I ever saw. Why a 4" drain for one toilet? Your guess is as good as mine. There was only one 1 1/2" vent for all this and it comes through the vanity---a wet vent.
OK class: who wants to start on saying whats wrong with this?
2d UPDATE
OK,this was supposed to publish last week but there was a schedule mixup and I meant to take the week and rework this diary but couldn't because Benghazi so here it is.