Home improvements
It was a warm weekend, so I decided to do some work to the bathroom, get it back in usable condition.
Actually, it’s just been dismantled for a while, because I’ve been undoing the damage caused by the extra moisture over the past year or so. A little spackle, a little paint, some sanding, and a good undercoat of zinsser. The Zinsser has proven to me to be the best tool for the job- it covers well, and it prevents mildew etc, even when overcoated with good latex. Which I got on today. So I was able to reinstall fixtures, hangars, etc.
While I’m on the subject, let me point out a product that I particularly like: THe Kohler Slow Close Toilet Seat. .
No, that is not me nor my bathroom- but my toilet seat is very similar to that.
God Himself uses a Kohler Slow Close seat. Of course, he’s had his for 300,000 years.
Get one. You’ll like it. No more lid slamming.
Also, my new Broan exhaust fan/light is working wonderfully. Now I just have to put up the daughter’s new “The Dogs” shower curtain.
Sheesh. Blasted Alger enablers.
More: A picture of the crapper in question. Not a palace, but nice to have the construction dust swept up, even if it’s not completely over yet.
26 comments Og | Uncategorized
After looking at toilets and all their flushing technologies. I ended up buying a Toto a few years ago. Slow close lid also. Haven’t regretted it once. Wish it could’ve been an American product, but the alternative (at the time) was a large pressure assisted WHOOSH with every flush.
Just yesterday I took my first Saturday off work in a lonnnggg time and replaced my water damaged wood flooring in the hallway with new flooring. Was so happy. it’s been over a year.
Woke up this morning and the wife says the kitchen wood flooring is squishy. it turns out that in the last day or so, a galvanized pipe that used to go from the furnace closet to the outdoors through a kitchen wall to carry condensate or humidifier overflow rotted out and discharged on the floor. Just got back from looking at ceramic tile at Home Depot.
I didn’t quite get your trope, there. Do you say we enable you, or you enable us?
I, too, had a busy weekend and will be posting — complete with pictures and a 3D rendering — in tonight’s publication.
M
It would be cats, og. Not dogs.
Mark did a great deal this weekend. I am proud of his discipline in this area. I’d rather take a nap on my day off.
swmbo
Where do you put your magazines?
Carry ’em in/out. Otherwise there would be a foot deep layer on the floor.
Very nice! I have “bathroom” envy now. Especially since (OMG!) I had no idea they had a “The Dog” shower curtain!
Someone stole my
Swingline StaplerThe Dog coffeemug over the holidays, and I posted a Westie “The Dog” photo with a plea in our pantry.The bastidge never did return it. :-(
Looks real nice Og. Is the pedestal sink (vis a vis a vanity) worth the trade-off in storage? I think so. Did you think long about it?
had a vanity when we moved in. mostly junk underneath. pedestal opened up room and made it lighter.
By the way, all joshing aside — as you say — schweeeet.
M
We’re jealous of anyone with a clean, structurally sound bathroom. Must be nice.Good job, Og.
swmbo
Your day will come, T.
+1 on the Toto fixture… We put them in 6+ years ago. The soft close seat is a daily help, since we try and keep the seats down to keep our parrot out of trouble (falling in).
The other advantage is that it uses a Korky QuietFill valve (short float and a diaphragm valve) that can be serviced without tools.
Pedestal sinks are the devil!
With that said, Kelly loves her new pedestal sink.
I’m so weak.
Vanities do make ti a bunch easier to plumb, hide the stuff, right? Pedestals, you have to work harder to make ’em pretty.
Nice bathroom, Og. I’ve been putting off our bathromm remodel until I can get the Alfa back on the road (EFI woes).
How did you decide on the size of your exhaust fan? I’m trying to figure out how many bathroom-volumes of air the fan needs to move per minute and balance that with the noise that a larger fan tends to generate.
Slash- you got the old Spica FI? or the Bosch?
I have Bosch L-Jetronic. My Spider is an ’88. I had the head rebuilt in December and finally got the engine reassembled by the middle of February.
Now, when I start it, it fires right up and runs beautifully for three seconds and then dies. I have determined that it is running on the cold start system and that the main fuel injectors are not getting the signal to fire from the fuel ECU, though they are getting 12V (the signal to fire is a ground) and they will fire when I simulate the signal.
I think that the problem is that the fuel ECU is not getting the signal from the ignition ECU that the car is running. This might be related to the ignition switch – which is the next item to troubleshoot. I spent yesterday afternoon disassembling the consoles and enbloc knee bolster so that I could get to the ignition switch wiring.
I did purchase another fuel ECU, but I want to ascertain that it is safe to plug the new ECU in.
Indeed! Also: check the grounding on the L-Jetronic computer. It derives it’s ground from the case and not the harness, IIRC.
We have the slow close seat in the one bathroom and I love it. For the other bathroom, the ALL YELLOW one, I found a color match for the toilet seat at thisoldtoilet.com. They can match old pink or green or whatever fixtures. You send them $64 and they send you around 80 color chips with the names of the toilet manufacturers that made the various colors. You send back your pick and the seat comes in a couple of weeks. It isn’t a slow close, of course.
Hey Nancy, I thought we were the only ones with a yellow toilet! Actually, the tank is yellow and the bowl is white. I had to replace a tank so I got one from my Dad’s stash (he owns rentals and, for some reason, his tenants love to break the toilets!) to tie me over until the bathroom gets remodeled.
Og – I haven’t checked the case for ground. There are three seperate wires that provide ground to the ECU, but that doesn’t mean that the case isn’t grounded…hmmmmmmm.
Also – I am the second owner, the previous owner being my brother-in-law. Great guy, but he doesn’t have a mechanical bone in his body and can’t recognize bullshit automotive work even when it is staring him in the eye. He had a LoJack installed and the yahoo who did the work located the unit on the floor adjacent to the fuel ECU. He got power from the big fat red wire that powers the fuel pump by scraping off a little of the insulation from said BFRW and wrapping the LoJack wire around it – sealing the mess off with some kind of cloth tape. The first time I fired up my beauty after reinstalling the head, the fuel pump ran continuously – even with the key out of the ignition!!!!. I’m wondering if that did a number on the fuel ECU.
yeah, we had a similar problem on Partner’s L-Jetronic. Looked all nice and tight but was being insulated from ground by (of all things) fresh paint, and rust. Installed a new grounding strap, and ran goodly as new.
Grounds seem to be the most common electrical problem. I don’t know why they ran ground wires from the ECU to the engine when they could have just grounded the unit right there where it is located.
Pedestal sink – getting your feet in enough to stand in front of the sink to shave, not stoop over it. And there isn’t diddly that gets kept under the sink that cannot be carried in a cleaning tote. And working on the plumbing while laying with the middle of your spine or rib cage getting cut by the vanity floor’s edge, and smacking your head on the door opening, is no fun. The vanity is a 70’s idea that should’ve died with avocado appliances.
Couldn’t agree more, MTS. But as Dick accurately points out, you have to work harder to pretty them up.
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