The puppy we tried to rescue didn't survive. Think it had Parvo. It hid from me when I was going to take it from the vet & I found it after the vet closed. Went to get it early next morning and the poor thing had passed. Buried it near some flowering plants.
Got to use the toilet liftmaster jack to pull the old toilet, scrape up the nasty wax, clean up the pipe opening, put a repair flange over the broken PVC, put the new ADA height toilet in & put a new seat on it. It looks great. Too bad the floor looks awful. LOL. Used a waxless seal in case the toilet didn't line up right the first time. With the flange & the new seal it still had some movement to it so we used toilet shims at the front.
That jack is going to make installing other toilets a lot easier. Comes with tubes to put over the bolts to help line up the holes on the toilet when lowering it & the jack sets it down slowly. Bought my friend lunch & gave him some gas money (even though I drove him- his car would not be able to handle my road after the way the logging trucks tore it up) so he could get to work. He was out of gas & is waiting for Unemployment to restore his benefits.
My brother got an email from his medical insurance saying something about him needing to login to his employee page to see something about his severance benefits-- which indicates he's been laid off but his employer hasn't told him anything. Last he heard from a supervisor was that he still had a job but was on furlough. He started doing a tiny bit of cleaning in front of our friend but stopped & went back to his room before we even got to the door to leave (but after we left the room). If my friend had stayed he might have continued cleaning up more, but he tends to quit after about 2 minutes of work when it comes to stuff at home. I joked with my friend that I bet he had stopped right after we left. Didn't realize he stopped before.
The dog, Princess, really likes the new kittens. I've been telling her that they are her kittens to protect & love. She wants to go in the room a few times a day to see them. Runs over to their condo, wags her tail, and wants to touch noses with them. They seem to like her so far. There were dogs at my friend's house so they are used to having dogs come over and sniff them. I'm hoping Fippy will take to them instead of being a territorial jerk. Some of the cats have already hissed at them, but I'm hoping they will get used to them soon. The one short-haired solid black cat that is an adult seems Ok with them.
I'll have to get pictures of the floor & hope it does justice to show the problem with the bathroom floor & get ideas on how to fix it without having to tear the whole thing up. I'm not sure if a layer of luan or underlayment plywood would help the situation. But, worst case scenario we could remove the vertical shelf support & move stuff out of the bathroom to replace the subfloor entirely. I'm just hoping there will be some easy fix. The floor moves a lot when I step in a certain spot. It's a bit squishy there. Wish I hadn't been busy with college finals when the floor broke in the first place. Then I could have helped more to make sure the floor had been repaired correctly instead of the awful patch job that was done.
Got to use the toilet liftmaster jack to pull the old toilet, scrape up the nasty wax, clean up the pipe opening, put a repair flange over the broken PVC, put the new ADA height toilet in & put a new seat on it. It looks great. Too bad the floor looks awful. LOL. Used a waxless seal in case the toilet didn't line up right the first time. With the flange & the new seal it still had some movement to it so we used toilet shims at the front.
That jack is going to make installing other toilets a lot easier. Comes with tubes to put over the bolts to help line up the holes on the toilet when lowering it & the jack sets it down slowly. Bought my friend lunch & gave him some gas money (even though I drove him- his car would not be able to handle my road after the way the logging trucks tore it up) so he could get to work. He was out of gas & is waiting for Unemployment to restore his benefits.
My brother got an email from his medical insurance saying something about him needing to login to his employee page to see something about his severance benefits-- which indicates he's been laid off but his employer hasn't told him anything. Last he heard from a supervisor was that he still had a job but was on furlough. He started doing a tiny bit of cleaning in front of our friend but stopped & went back to his room before we even got to the door to leave (but after we left the room). If my friend had stayed he might have continued cleaning up more, but he tends to quit after about 2 minutes of work when it comes to stuff at home. I joked with my friend that I bet he had stopped right after we left. Didn't realize he stopped before.
The dog, Princess, really likes the new kittens. I've been telling her that they are her kittens to protect & love. She wants to go in the room a few times a day to see them. Runs over to their condo, wags her tail, and wants to touch noses with them. They seem to like her so far. There were dogs at my friend's house so they are used to having dogs come over and sniff them. I'm hoping Fippy will take to them instead of being a territorial jerk. Some of the cats have already hissed at them, but I'm hoping they will get used to them soon. The one short-haired solid black cat that is an adult seems Ok with them.
I'll have to get pictures of the floor & hope it does justice to show the problem with the bathroom floor & get ideas on how to fix it without having to tear the whole thing up. I'm not sure if a layer of luan or underlayment plywood would help the situation. But, worst case scenario we could remove the vertical shelf support & move stuff out of the bathroom to replace the subfloor entirely. I'm just hoping there will be some easy fix. The floor moves a lot when I step in a certain spot. It's a bit squishy there. Wish I hadn't been busy with college finals when the floor broke in the first place. Then I could have helped more to make sure the floor had been repaired correctly instead of the awful patch job that was done.
