Hee, hee! I know what you mean about doing it yourself! With internet access, I have just enough "do-it-yourself" knowledge to make me dangerous... ;) I, too, embarked on a toilet fixer-uper...basically, the toilet was rocking so I figured, "How hard can it be to fix?" BTW, you can replace the "fix" in that last sentence with just about anything else I've tried: lay tile? install laminate flooring? replace ceiling fixtures? install electric wall sconces? put in new sinks? :)
Anyway, a simple "fixer-uper" with the toilet turned into having to replace the entire gasket which turned into having to buy a hammer drill and cement to afix the gasket because we have cement sub-flooring! It took a whole d*mn weekend, but I fixed the rock, darn it! :) As for the sub-flooring for the tile, we didn't have to do anything to ours as it was already pretty level...I know you can buy some kind of cement to spread over low spots...and you can also buy sheets of some kind of sub-flooring if the floor is really bad, but I'm not sure how to install those! The video, I think, covers most of that! Our kitchen and bathrooms had that vinyl sheet flooring (very, very old judging by the pattern). :) The video actually recommended just tiling over any old vinyl flooring as the glue underneath could have asbestos. So we just pulled up the shiny part and tiled right over the old glue! **************************************************** "But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world; You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed..." --Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them, and what you do not know you will fear. What one fears one destroys." --Chief Dan George ----- Original Message ----- From: wendy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, April 3, 2006 11:01 am Subject: Jen: OT: New journey-laying tile!!! To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > P.S. I think I will go pick up that video today so > that my husband can watch it. Thank you for offering > to send it-that is very sweet! You should have seen > my husband when I tried to convince him we could fix a > leaky toilet when we first married two years ago. He > had never done any handy work before, and what should > have been a simple job involved having to go buy the > tool to open the water hole to turn off the water to > the whole house outside and then fixing several leaks. > lol. He just wanted to call the plumber, but I'm > cheap and if I can do it myself, I will. We ended up > fixing it, but it really was a pain in the butt and > not the first handy job I would have picked to warm my > husband up to fixing things around the house. LOL. > > :) > Wendy > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com >
