So Smug

Smug !  That's what we were.  Steve is a pretty handy guy indeed but this was kind of funny.  We went to Home Depot and got all the things we needed to cut off the supply ends and to install the shut off valves for the hot, cold, etc.  The first thing he did was cut off what appeared to me to be where the drain goes.   He hack sawed that off and then put this stuff on the actually melted the PVC pipes together.  That went quit well and I might add, without my help. 


The next thing we did was cutt off the extra length of pipes they gave us when they built the bathroom.  We took our pretty new pipe cutter and after a couople of revolutions the pipe was cut to legnth.  Even though we shut the water off to the entire house we were nervous about water flowing into the basement.  He cut off the piece, then the next putting shut of valves on each.  Steve then picked up a pice of the pipe he'd cut off and said, "Don't you think there should be water in there because there was water going to it even though it was capped off"?  I said, I think so.  We both suspected something was wrong.  We just expected the inside to be wet.  When he cut off the pipes, not a drip of water went anywhere.  Not a single drop.  Steve went into the other room and said, "Oh my God, come here".  I went to the other room to have Steve show me that the pipes we had just cut off never had water going to them at all.  They went through the wall, up to the rafters and ended. 


Being eager to get this done, it stopped the project in its tracks.   On Tuesday I called the plumber who came to hook up the lines to "real water".   He then gave me some pointer about putting in the toilet which Steve has done a hundred times.  He told me that as we tighen up the hook things, the ring will pull up from the floor so we needed to put screws into the ring.  I looked at Alan with my typical puzzled look and he said, "You want me to bring down the toilet from the garage for you to install?"  We went up and got the toilet and put it in.   Let me rephrase, he put it in.   He then explained to me why there were two drain holes for the bar area.  I actually understood this, a little.  I called Steve at work to tell him before I didn't understand anymore. 

You can see  our little plumber doing his thing to a pipe that was hooked to "air".  Remember, not a drip of water.  He really cranked the shut off valve tight so we didn't have any water leaking.  There was a better chance of the Pope becoming Lutheran than water coming out of that pipe.  As you can see below, all the valves are in place and we are ready for water.  What a hoot.