More plumbing...

It was a busy weekend, full of planned and unplanned projects!
The good part is that we've got plenty of fodder for the blog this week!

Hint on project #1: Here's what the foyer looked like last week...

Our first challenge for the weekend began on Friday morning.

I came downstairs and saw dripping from the ceiling.  Mike stood on a chair, pressed the ceiling, and it dripped faster.  Uh-oh.

Mike was off for the day, and I figured that he might rip down the ceiling (he generally underestimates the mess it will make, so leaves the furniture & rugs in place)... so I removed the table, shelf and painting before I went off to work.

Mike ran to Lowe's to pick up building supplies for our planned weekend project (more on that later in the week!)
<-- Shortly after, I received an e-mail with this photo.




Mike ripped the rest open, so we could take a look at what was going on up there.  We weren't sure if it was coming from the flashing on the porch roof, or the bathroom that's right above.

Turns out the water pipe going into the bathroom sink was leaking.  Apparently for quite a while!




We had family coming over on Saturday, so just stuck a bucket under the drip & cleaned up best we could.
Thank goodness they're the understanding DIY type!

But it didn't stop there.  Remember back with the mystery door, we figured there might be a leak on the foyer side?
Well, Sunday seemed as good a time as ever to open up that wall.

There wasn't any drywall- just boards nailed vertically, and paper on top (then painted).


Behind the boards was some electrical, and a bunch of pipes (hot, cold, steam, bathroom drain stack, plus a second drain pipe that doesn't join to the stack until it reaches the basement)


Unfortunately, the drain stack is in bad shape on the bottom half.  So, Mike went last night & got supplies- he plans to replace it all the way down into the basement, & consolidate the second drain into it.

Here's the best shot I have of where we are now-->
I'll have to take a wider one, showing the whole mess later.





There are two silver linings on this little rain cloud!
1- I already picked out the new paint color for the foyer, but it was pretty far down on the To Do List.  This moves it right up!
2- Mike thinks he may need to rip out the sink cabinet in the kids' bathroom to properly get at the pipes (my fingers are crossed!)  I've got a new one all picked out- Bye, Bye mint green sink!!!!