Our new bathroom floor is in!  But before I show you pictures of that, let me tell you about the drain on our clawfoot tub.
We suspect the plumbing on it was original.  Whether it was or not, it was old enough to be nothing but a pain in the drain. 
First of all, when Brandon went […]

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Our kitchen floor is finished! Doesn’t it look great?

The contractor didn’t bring enough tile to completely finish the bathroom, but he did the areas under the tub and toilet. The rest will go in on Monday.

Things are finally coming back together.
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 These are pictures from the day I wrote the two “S.N.A.F.U.” posts about. Once Brandon got the kinks worked out with the flooring contractor they got to work.
(These pictures aren’t of the same quality as my usual pictures because Brandon took them with his phone’s camera, but I think it gives the whole thing […]

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Here are some photos of what we — actually, Brandon – did to prep the bathroom to have tile put down:
First Brandon turned off the main water line and unhooked the faucet from the tub.

Then he put the faucet back together on the pipes so we could turn the main back on to the house.

A minor […]

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First of all, I’d like to thank the members of the Des Moines Rehabbers Club who kindly offered me advice this morning.  I sent a rather panicked email to the mailing list this morning and got some really excellent responses.  It helps so much to have someone to turn to in a crisis like this! 
The flooring company […]

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