Rather than pay $7000 each to get my two bathrooms upgraded before putting my house on the market, I decided that I could replace the cabinets in each, use the same sink on top, repaint and put in upgraded fixtures and stuff. Total cost closer to $1500.
The plumbing part of it turned into a nightmare.
It seemed easy enough to just disconnect everything, put in new shutoff valves for water coming in and use the old drain pieces. And it almost worked. It was only leaking maybe one or two drops a minute, but that was continuous until it dripped down below the lowest joint in the pipe. Taking it back apart and putting in new plastic drain pieces did not improve things. In fact, every time I tried something it seemed to get worse. That was for the first bathroom that I did it to. The second one is an exact mirror image of the first bathroom and I had higher hopes but ran into bigger problems there. Having a three-day deadline to be totally done didn't help the stress factor.
So I finally realized that I needed to blow some of my cost savings and get a professional in to fix things right. A quick Google search for local plumbers and a call to the first one that popped up (a rooter company) had them promising to send someone out right away. "They'll be there between 10:00 and noon." At about 12:30 I call them and apparently their guy got a bit busy and now they'll be there between 1:00 and 3:00. At 3:30 I gave up on them and searched for a local business, which happens to be called Savior Plumbing. (Their logo is a Jesus Fish made of pipes.) They said they would be out the next morning (today), between 8:30 and 9:00 and the name of their guy was Eric. I called the other people and told them to just forget it.
This morning Eric showed up, went through everything, including pointing out a crack in one of the plastic pipes, used the proper products to properly seal every joint and totally fixed my problem in one hour. Total cost of $150.
I couldn't thank him enough for rescuing me. Sometimes you just have to give in and get an expert to do things right.
The plumbing part of it turned into a nightmare.
It seemed easy enough to just disconnect everything, put in new shutoff valves for water coming in and use the old drain pieces. And it almost worked. It was only leaking maybe one or two drops a minute, but that was continuous until it dripped down below the lowest joint in the pipe. Taking it back apart and putting in new plastic drain pieces did not improve things. In fact, every time I tried something it seemed to get worse. That was for the first bathroom that I did it to. The second one is an exact mirror image of the first bathroom and I had higher hopes but ran into bigger problems there. Having a three-day deadline to be totally done didn't help the stress factor.
So I finally realized that I needed to blow some of my cost savings and get a professional in to fix things right. A quick Google search for local plumbers and a call to the first one that popped up (a rooter company) had them promising to send someone out right away. "They'll be there between 10:00 and noon." At about 12:30 I call them and apparently their guy got a bit busy and now they'll be there between 1:00 and 3:00. At 3:30 I gave up on them and searched for a local business, which happens to be called Savior Plumbing. (Their logo is a Jesus Fish made of pipes.) They said they would be out the next morning (today), between 8:30 and 9:00 and the name of their guy was Eric. I called the other people and told them to just forget it.
This morning Eric showed up, went through everything, including pointing out a crack in one of the plastic pipes, used the proper products to properly seal every joint and totally fixed my problem in one hour. Total cost of $150.
I couldn't thank him enough for rescuing me. Sometimes you just have to give in and get an expert to do things right.
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