Joel Hainley

Well amazingly enough the hot water side of the plumbing replacement project went off without a hitch. I replaced all of the lines, hooked up the water heater and opened it up and there wasn’t a leak in the entire system. This means one of two things : 1. I got lucky. 2. I finally have a handle on soldering water pipes. I’m going to go with the latter until there is convincing evidence to the contrary.

This completes the first phase of this project. The second phase is to redo the plumbing up in the wall behind the shower, and then to put in a new bathroom sink, toilet, floor and to refinish the bathtub itself. I will probably also spend some time and retile the shower. Thankfully tomorrow I have a mountain bike ride scheduled with the fellas so the shower is going to have to wait another day or two before it gets some love.