01-24-2021, 04:02 PM
Sometimes the small things are the precursors of bad news. Miss Tina asked me: "WHAT the heck is wrong with that paint?" She was sitting in the tub soaking, I was sitting on the closed lid of the throne talking to her.
"What Paint?"
"On the vanity, below the doors to the cabinet." She said, pointing. I looked, the paint was crackled, about three inches long.
Wasn't wet, reached under the edge, not wet. Opened the door to the cabinet. Not wet inside.
Not a clue. This was a couple days before Christmas and the Daughter, Son-in-law, and Granddaughter were due in the next day.
Two days later, Miss T said, "I knew something was leaking." The crackle had spread.
The paint was crackled about three foot wide on the trim. Pulled the drawers, and the hot water pipe behind the drawers, leading up to the sinks, was drip - drip - dripping. Had been for a while. The bottom of the vanity between the two sinks was ... mush. The people who plumbed the vanity thought they were plumbers, look at the snarl. They installed four cutoffs, one in each line, rather than a single cutoff in the hot and cold feeder lines below the T. When they glued it all in they glued it so close you couldn't shut off the water...They thought there were plumbers, but... they were wrong.
Several months before we had to call the plumber out for the Jacuzzi Tub knock off. The hot water there had been leaking since they installed THAT... and it ruined the surround and the trim on that as well. We learned they had used pipe that had been specifically banned from that application because it fails when used with HOT water.
The plumber also used a cracked pipe to plumb in the left side of the dual sinks... note the top of the drain pipe leading to the T.
OUR plumber shut off the water, and removed the plumbing, and the granite top and sinks, took the base to my woodshop. I started on the mission to see if I could restore the base. The first step was removing the rotted / waterlogged base and trim.
There was some damage to the base, swelling and cosmetic damage. But considering that a replacement would run in the $1,500 range, I was up to the challenge. The first step would be to remove the glue and leftover mush from the bottom and measure for a replacement base. Careful work with a mallet and chisel cleaned up the bottom nicely.
"What Paint?""On the vanity, below the doors to the cabinet." She said, pointing. I looked, the paint was crackled, about three inches long.
Wasn't wet, reached under the edge, not wet. Opened the door to the cabinet. Not wet inside. Not a clue. This was a couple days before Christmas and the Daughter, Son-in-law, and Granddaughter were due in the next day.Two days later, Miss T said, "I knew something was leaking." The crackle had spread.
The paint was crackled about three foot wide on the trim. Pulled the drawers, and the hot water pipe behind the drawers, leading up to the sinks, was drip - drip - dripping. Had been for a while. The bottom of the vanity between the two sinks was ... mush. The people who plumbed the vanity thought they were plumbers, look at the snarl. They installed four cutoffs, one in each line, rather than a single cutoff in the hot and cold feeder lines below the T. When they glued it all in they glued it so close you couldn't shut off the water...They thought there were plumbers, but... they were wrong.
Several months before we had to call the plumber out for the Jacuzzi Tub knock off. The hot water there had been leaking since they installed THAT... and it ruined the surround and the trim on that as well. We learned they had used pipe that had been specifically banned from that application because it fails when used with HOT water.
The plumber also used a cracked pipe to plumb in the left side of the dual sinks... note the top of the drain pipe leading to the T.
OUR plumber shut off the water, and removed the plumbing, and the granite top and sinks, took the base to my woodshop. I started on the mission to see if I could restore the base. The first step was removing the rotted / waterlogged base and trim.
There was some damage to the base, swelling and cosmetic damage. But considering that a replacement would run in the $1,500 range, I was up to the challenge. The first step would be to remove the glue and leftover mush from the bottom and measure for a replacement base. Careful work with a mallet and chisel cleaned up the bottom nicely.
Jim in Okie
You can tell a lot about the character of a man -
By the way he treats those who can do nothing for him.
You can tell a lot about the character of a man -
By the way he treats those who can do nothing for him.
Ah.... no. I took the coping saw and cut a flat cut above and below and then flattened the back with a chisel.
I also started filling that giant hole with putty. I KNOW it will be hidden with the drawers in place and no one will see it. I will KNOW it's there. 
