Bathroom Remodel- Days 12 and 13
"Oh, changing all the water pipes should only take a day..."

The streets still being icy, Terry took me to work then went to tackling replacing the water pipes. He shut the water off at the street and proceeded to demo the old galvanized pipes. We had partially replaced the pipes when we first moved into the house and in preparation for the bath remodel, Terry had ran some of the copper pipes, so he could just hook them up when the time was ready.

Well, I called him to come pick me up from work at 5:00pm. He was not very happy when he picked me up. He didn't have a very good day. We proceeded to work on the pipes until midnight and gave up when we started making stupid mistakes. Terry burnt his lip trying to bend the solder with his teeth when it was still a little too hot. We still didn't have any water hooked up, so we used bottled water to wash our hands and brush our teeth.

I called in to work on Day 13, so I could help Terry finish hooking the water up. We went to gym to take shower (it had been about 4 days). We also went out to breakfast which was really good. It took us about 6 more hours to finish the piping to a point where we could cap off the loose ends and turn on the water. It worked!!! Only a couple small weeps, but we're letting that go for now. We were only without water for 2 days, but we celebrated by putting on clean clothes and going out to dinner. We even bought a couple of those fancy holiday drinks at Starbucks afterwards. We sat in those comfy chairs and relaxed in the festive dust-free atmosphere.