Happy Hanukah

Let's get started!

Here's a summary of what has been going on in the last two weeks:

It rained inside the house! Because there isn't any heat in the house, the iron pipes started to condensate thus, creating rain and water stains on the wood floor!! I finally figured out why there was a gaping hole in the room! When I finish remodeling the bathroom, it will stop raining. Hell, when I get heat in the house, then it will stop raining..... hopefully.

Speaking of which... I've been installing heat into the house! I've received some advice on how to install heat into the home. I took the most expensive yet simple approach in installing heat- flexipipe. Folks, this shit doesn't come cheap at all. From talking with my HVAC people, I bought 50 ft of 1" pipe for $250!!!

Iron pipe is like 14 bucks for 10 feet but it is a bitch and a half to assemble! I am seriously glad I bought the flexipipe because it is really easy to just drill a random hole and then shove the pipe down the hole. Do you know how long it took me to drill these holes?? TWO DAYS STRAIGHT! Why so long? THE WRONG TOOLS were being utilized!! For a 1" pipe to fit just fine through a hole, I need to drill a hole that is larger than 1-1/4"!! The problem is, I didn't have a spade drill that was LONG. Between each floor is 1 feet of subfloor space well the stupid spade is less than 1". SUCKS!

When I went to home depot, lowes, and harbor freight, I found really long spades that I could use to drill the holes BUT the largest size is 1"!! WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP! So on day one, I use a hole saw to drill the holes, worked fine but too way too long! Then I found some spades in my toolbox and used them - works just fine! The only problem is that it doesn't work well on the joists that supports each floor. On day two, I found a very expensive drill bit along with extenders that helped me to drill holes! IT WORKS! I wished I had found this earlier to save me a day or two of work!

On the last day of drilling holes, I accidently drilled through the roof. I freaked out, but it came to be a good thing! I am remodeling the guest bathroom and there isn't a a vent to vent out the sewer gas! So my roofer friend will install the flashing and then I will have a vent! YAY!!! Now I have to wait for my HVAC dude to install the connection to the furnace and we will have heat!! FUCK YEAH!!!!!

During xmas vacation break, I decided to attack more aggressively on the guest bath! I've planned this sucker for a month now. Because of the dimensions of the room, laying out the sink and toilet has been the hardest part! Also, the tub selection wasn't easy. I didn't know if I should go full blown whirlpool or the small whirlpool tub. Sucks really. The first thing I did in the guest bath was perform an abortion/hysterectomy/castration. I went under the house and ripped out the existing plumbing because it was all wrong - just wrong, wrong, wrong. This guy found new ways of wrong instead of doing it right.

So here I was, under the house. I didn't take pics of the existing plumbing cause I didn't want to ruin my camera. I spent like 15 mins

examing what to cut/rip out. Then I started cutting out the pipes (yes, I did turn off the water). After cutting the pipes, I soon realized that I miscalculated my cut. There are times like these where there was an 'undo' button! So now I have to travel to the dreadful HomeDepot to buy plumbing supplies. Did you know that plumbing supplies are expensive especially the sodder?! Crazy! All I want to do is to rip out the copper pipes and replace them with CPVC! The pipes are cheaper and I don't have to sodder!! So two pipes to sodder close. Well guess how long that job took? 3 hours. Yup... pathetic right? The sodder would not stick to the pipe! Wuteva god. Wutever. I finally got the two pipes closed after many attempts of sealing it! Thank god
Kyle was there to assist me or else I have to go back and forth, to and fro, turning the water off and on because the sodder would not stick and seal! EAT ME.

After ripping out the old plumbing, I decided to put down the plywood ontop of the subfloor. Luckily, the subfloor wasn't rotted! I saved it just in time! There is only one spot where it is questionable but for the most part, it was salvageable. It took 3 trips to homedepot for the lumber people to cut the wood. Why 3 trips?! Well..... this time it wasn't the previous owner's fault. It was the original builder and the early 20th builder century math - the house is NOT squared. So the floor dimension's were off by 3/8" or 1/4" of an inch.

Now the floor is down, what to do next? Well why not install the toilet? Sure, let's do that. Shouldn't be that bad right? WRONG! The toilet has to sit off about 5 or 6 inches away from the wall because of a stupid beam support! The drain for the hole is right in the middle of the toilet instead in the backhalf. SUCKS. So the toilet is going to be away from the wall. If it looks really, really big, I might cut away the beam and add support around the beam.

I gave Trey the task of removing the toilet gasket. From reading the label, it says "hammer on lip and remove." Well people, Trey spent like 20 mins trying to remove the stupid thing. Pictures of his frustration:

(Zach Malone is gay)

Anyway, the gasket came off and puppykins decided to wear it:

Also, here's a handy tip in locating where to drill the hole for the toilet - lipstick. I shoplifted bought a cheap thing of lipstick and rubbed it on the flange/hole of the toilet. Then flipped the toilet rightside down and plopped it on the floor. The lipstick created a guide on the floor where to drill and there. I had to go under the house and finish hooking/measuring out the toilet:

(taken through the gasket)

The story of the toilet done, now off to the story yellow tube.

Earlier, I mentioned that we needed heat in the house so I purchased the some gas flexi piping. It's running from the basement up to the attic. Now is really the perfect time to drill holes through the house. Kyle's room is above the demo-ed bathroom. Here are pics of it:

(pipe in the wall)

(pipe in the bathroom wall)

(pipe in the bathroom wall)

(pipe in Kyle's wall)

(pipe in Kyle's wall)

You can see the pipe didn't go to the attic, YET. The reason is when I drilled hole to the attic, I went right through the roof and lost within the attic. God, more money. Let's see if I can fix this oopss (prolly not).

Next, something good, I fixed the automated gate! I had to buy a stupid battery! What's worse, my neighbor had a spare! I plan to return the stupid thing back to home depot and just have the neighbor's (SAVE 30 bucks!)!

Further along in the bathroom, I did the framing for the tub. I had to tear down a drywall but hell, just look at the pictures:

(before)

(before)

(before)




(before)

Now the funny part, see these light boxes:

BITCHES GOTTA MOVE!

Frame up!

YEAH!! LOOKS AWESOME!!! Now you can see what the tub and walls will look like!!

Now how to end this entry? I know!

Gruesome eh? Why is there string attached to the traps? Well previously, I laid out a few traps around the house. A day later, 2 of the traps were GONE! I have no idea where the hell they could go. The dogs didn't snap them because they were out of place. So I decided to string them together. Works, the traps were still there. Only two were missing. And guess what - NO MORE MICE!

TOILET FAIL

Buying the toilet cheap at Home Depot: $25 + tax



Finding out that the back of the old toilet
doesn't fit on the new toilet because nothing is of
"universal" size: priceless

ZOMG

Hey, guys. Little one here, writing her first post and resting after a day of who knows what. But it's Christmas, right? Right. We couldn't get to the Clark house today because the Christmas spirit was too strong for us. Hahah I kid. We just chillaxed at home for most of the day, opened gifts, made and ate pancakes, and tormented the black devil. All jokes aside, there is a serious matter going on at the Clark House. Since it's wintertime, all sorts of little buggers have managed to weasel their way into the house (here at the parents' house, we seem to have a problem with wasps and freeloaders, but we manage to get rid of at least one of them by cutting off their heads with scissors and making them attack their dead brethren).

And the Clark House? MICE. Mice have found their way into the food but not into our hearts. Yes, they are cute and cuddly. There's even a guy on youtube who managed to train his mouse to go through an extensive maze, which is pretty cool. I work with them every so often in the lab at work, and I've learned a few things about them. For one, a litter of mice could range from 2 to 15 pups, each of which is about the size of a thimble. They can eat pretty much anything you give them, including their offspring. Given the chance, a male and female mouse could have a litter of mice, and when those mice have reached maturity after 21 days, they could mate with each other (including the parents), making more pups. Barring from the fact that they eat their offspring at least half the time, your house could be inundated with little squeaky things by the end of the month. They'd be all up in your food, taking little bites, leaving you presents to find in your drawers, and, given the chance, they could be all up in that plague mess.

So how do I handle the situation at work? What do I do with the extra mice that we don't need? Gas them with carbon dioxide, then incinerate the bodies. Really, they just go to sleep forever. Close their cute little eyes and dream of sugar plum fairies and whatnot.

So I hope this little guy is dreaming of sugar plum fairies. Or cheese. Or whatever. At least he doesn't have to clean up the mess he left behind.

He looks like he's checking out the food...kind of...

Oh man look at that.

Are his eyes open?

We left the body out for a while so the other mice would get the idea.

ZOMG wait a sec... is that blood on the rice cooker?

Nice sight, yes? One down, at least 51 zillion more to go.

Mail Call!

Poor house, cursed with ghosts and mice. Guess what came in the mail? A letter to the previous wife/bitch/slut/etc. Read on!







Man, I need to put in a moat to keep these crazies away.

The Tomb!

So yes, I have enslaved the robots to clean the house. The little one decided to put all the dust in one area and sent the roomba after it. I think I'll post it over the bathroom.

After tearing down tons of plaster I decided to tackle removing the floor. Let's see the aftermath:

As you can see here, the previous douchebag seriously didn't know how to drill a hole to install toilet drain. As you can see, he probably took a drill and circle around the drain. If you think about it, why is the hole so much bigger than the drain? Hell would I know. What I plan to do is to remove the drain and move it to the other side of the room. Let's continue on.

Remember this mess from the previous post? Well I have uncovered the secret! Let's talk.

This room used to be some sort of room that wasn't supposed to be a bathroom. So using ghetto-logic, the previous owner wanted to install a bathroom. KUDOS to him. Well, the toolbag decided to make a service hole and cover it up with a clawfoot tub. Reread the previous sentence. How can you cover a hole with a clawfoot tub?! there's plenty of space! I would understand if a regular bathtub covered it. Total FAIL.

The tomb has been uncovered!

Honestly, the sister and I were thinking that a dead body was under there. Luckily, it was just plenty of dirt - lots of it. So since I made this huge mess with plenty of debris, we decided to shove it under there.

While skimming the floor, I noticed a lot of nail heads that were bent or upside down. The floor was being supported the wrong way. God this guy was a moron. I decided to shave down the nails because I needed a smooth floor when I lay down the subfloor. See the cool sparks!

This is what the room looks like all cleared.

I gave Kyle the opportunity to bust a hole through a wall. You can see he has pissed off that the previous douche did an incredible awful job!