Yesterday Traci, her dad, and I completely redid the floor in the bathroom with new 12″x12″ stone-look vinyl tiles. We had to pull up the toilet to tile around it, and to seal in the floor around the bathtub I added wood dowel rods and wood putty to fill in the floor crack. The resulting floor looks great! However, today was not good.
I took a bath in the morning since I didn’t have the shower rod up. After emptying the tub, I came downstairs for some breakfast and Traci used the shower. To my horror, there was a huge leak of water from the ceiling vent in the downstairs bathroom! Now I have to get my home remodeler to come back and check out what went wrong, because now I suspect there’s going to be a lot more painful, expensive work involved to fix this leak. And all this after I painted the room and retiled. I HATE HOME IMPROVEMENT!
Oy vey.
Update: the faucet was the culprit in the leak, and after disassembling it and resealing it, the leak now appears to be gone. Seems like the diverter in the spout was causing water to back up through the system around the pipe and into the wall when the shower was activated. No tearing out drywall and no huge bill! Huzzah!
Now we deal with the leaky kitchen faucet that is soldered on.