New stuff

Britney and I have decided to tackle the sink pipe by our selves. The plumber told us they would most likely go into the wall through the kitchen, which would mean pulling off the counter top to get the corner cabinet out, which might leave us with a destroyed counter top. After talking it over, we have decided to do the job ourselves, but to go through the bathroom wall instead. We are going to take out the existing sink, which we can't use right now anyways, and pull the tiles off that portion of the wall. We want to replace the sink with a pedestal sink, which we can buy for less than $100. We are also going to go ahead and replace the toilet, primarily because the one we have is both short, and flushes very poorly.

We went to Lowes today, just to look at prices of toilets and sinks. We went ahead and bought new light fixtures for the front porch, because the existing ones were falling apart, and the lights in them were very pathetic. We were going to wait on the toilet and sink, but when we went back to look at copper piping, we saw our toilet in an opened box. It had been returned because it didn't have a tank sink, but it was only $70. We decided to go ahead and buy it right then; we don't need to install it right now, and we can return it if we can't get a tank lid for a reasonable price.

Here are some pictures of today's (and yesterday's) work.

-Jon

P.S. I would like to send a big "THANK YOU" to my grandparents (Grandmother and PaPaw) for their generosity, which is making this up-coming bathroom remodel possible.

Future toilet, sans lid

New front lights

The current state of the front yard/dirt pile