I just spent $7500 in parts and labor to completely redo a 39 sq foot bathroom. New tub and shower and fixtures, new toilet, pedestal sink, mirror, shower curtain rod, paint, vinyl plank flooring, etc. All done. Woke up this morning with a small ring of water around the base of my sink pedestal. The slip ring at the top of the trap is leaking. A $6 part. Naturally, it's inside the pedestal so it's hard to get to. Figures. It's never easy.

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Originally posted by Micropterus:
It's never easy.

Nope, it never is.

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Originally posted by Micropterus:
I just spent $7500 in parts and labor to completely redo a 39 sq foot bathroom. .....

I know it's what stuff costs now but it just seems crazy expensive. Oh well get that leak fixed!

Yeah, I had a cracked toilet tank turn into a $6k bathroom remodel AND near total re-plumb of my house.
It sucks.

Murphys law of Remodeling:
Any attempted remodel will cost more, take more time, be more complex and require more specialized tools than originally planned.

What’s the most uttered line from nearly any home improvement show?
“Well, first thing we’re gonna have to do is cut a bigger hole.”

One day, I went down to my shop in the basement to.. well, I don’t remember. Doesn’t matter, as I got down there I noticed that one and a half sheets of pegboard on the wall were soaked through. Leak from powder room upstairs.

Dammit.

Pulled down the pegboard, insulation and stuff, cleared a little space.... and can’t find the leak from below. But it seems to be coming from the top plate.

Go upstairs with heavy sighs. Step into the powder room to find it...bone dry. I search around the pedestal sink, it seems good. I start to do the feel around, everything is dry. The inlet feeds from the wall.

Well, shit. First we cut a bigger hole.

About a 10x10 hole. Reach inside to the pipe leading down, and it’s dry. Next we cut a bigger hole further down the wall. Then a big flashlight.

Found it.

This house was built in 1997. Powder room was basic Sheetrock, wood base mold with quarter round over a wood floor. Apparently, when installing trim, some jack wagon put a finishing nail through the trim and Sheetrock and into the pvc. And it took around 6 years to rust enough to start to leak. I know it wasn’t leaking before, as I put up that pegboard and such and knew the wall was dry before.

And I really hate finishing Sheetrock. So, once the pipe was patched up, I sealed up the hole and proceeded to put in bead board wainscoting. And painted the whole room.

Thus my “A seemingly simple fix becomes a project story” thanks to a negligent discharge of a nail gun.

A 39 square foot bathroom? Pretty compact for all that stuff...

Guy in a really cheap motel room picks up the room desk phone and dials the front desk.

He says "Hey I gotta leak in the sink".

Front desk guy replies "Ah go ahead, you paid for the room anyway".

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Originally posted by johnfritz:
A 39 square foot bathroom? Pretty compact for all that stuff...

That doesn't include the tub area. That's just the floor area including where the sink and toilet sit.

The builder or whoever installed the bathroom that was in it when I bought the house seems to have been a hack.
The original sink was too far to the right so they simply bent the water supply lines to the right, presumably so they wouldn't have to buy longer supply hoses. One of them developed a leak and caused some wood rot that had to be repaired.

Then the previous owner decided to put armstrong adhesive tiles over the existing linoleum floor. The original linoleum was actually pretty nice. Those additional armstrong tiles began walking over time and the floor looked like crap.

Everything in it was builders grade.

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Nice job, good combo, is that VLP flooring...

Yes. There is a foam underlayment under it, and the planks have microban rubber coating on the bottom.