Psychotomy

go me! i got both toilets replaced today.

After yesterday’s joy with hacksawing the bolts, today was just getting some tools os I could reasonable scrape out all the wax from the ring for a clean restart. put the first one in, attached tank, started up and it’s dripping … shit, did I tighten too much???

take it out to check, turns out that the “hair” I’d seen on the dispersal base of the tank was actually a crack. kinda like someone’d taken a hammer and chipped it, but the piece hadn’t fallen all the way out. just enough to leak all over :o

took that back, decided to pick up the second toilet while we were there exchanging the tank, got home, finished up with the upper toilet (it works! it fills, it stops, it flushes, refills, STOPS AGAIN! and it doesn’t appear to be leaking! woo!)

decided I’d go ahead and take apart the second toilet so I could set the bolts with caulk and let it dry overnight (the first one I didn’t really give it any time to dry … so the caulk was not entirely meaningful). decide I’m going to replace the tube that goes to the tank, too, since the one there looks fairly old (and I oculdn’t get it detached from the tank :o) took it off the valve and… and, uh … right. put the new one on and KIIIR! GET ME THE BUCKET! apparently the valve doesn’t tighten all the way closed :/

went to disattach the tank, but one of the bolts has … rusted solid. jesus. I started trying to get the saw in, but it didn’t appear to be working. but the mounting screws to hold the toilet down were fairly loose, so I took them off and just carried the toilet out and around the house. the other thought was getting a hammer. it keeps warning me that the ceramic is fragile and could break. good, then BREAK :)

turns out hte iron pipe flange fitting thingie jig thats there is all kindsa rusty. in fact, apparently when the contractor redid the subflooring in that bathroom he noticed that himself, b/c he had done some trickto get a bolt in, since the place it usually goes was kinda open instead of a slot like it should be. some trick I couldn’t reverse. i decided i wasnt’ going to hacksaw it and just went with leaving it where it was :o put in a bunch of caulk around each bolt, aroun the edge of the flange just in case, and let it set for 30-45 minutes before going back in and throwing a toilet at it :o toilet and tank went on fairly easily, attached, and it’s all kindsa flushy working now :o

but I should probably replace that valve. except that’s harder :o

maybe I’ll fix that hole in the ceiling …it’sonly been 8 months or so :o

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