Final Demo Day(s)

We hit a few little snags as we headed into what was going to be our final demo day. To start with, we wanted to have fun on the weekend instead of working. So on Friday night, we went out to Dave & Buster’s with some of my co-workers for games and food. Saturday morning, Matt woke up at the crack of dawn to go wakeboarding with Doug, and I went to a fun volunteer event for HopeKids. That night, we pushed off work a little longer and decided to go to Grimaldi’s for some pizza – followed by watching “Tangled” at home. It was a nice, relaxing night. But then on Sunday we had to hop to it to make up for lost time.

Matt spent a good portion of the day soldering together the new pipes for the shower so we could finally stop that pesky leak. As he assembled the fixture in the bathroom, he was not feeling too great about one of his weld joints, and told me that he was nervous it was not going to hold. But he finished up and I went out and flipped the water supply back on. As he suspected, water shot all over the place and we had to turn it off again to assess the leak points. Matt was able to do some fancy cutting and re-soldering around the affected area, and got it to a point where it was water-tight. Unfortunately, when we turned the water on again, there were a few more joints with small leaks as well. Turns out the valve we bought for the shower was sub-par. So despite his heroic effort, Matt was not able to save “Frankenpipe,” as we affectionately called him.

Soldering Materials...

Soldering In Action...

Jordan Supervising the Project



Installing the Finished Product:

The next day, I was calling around for plumbers and got a reference from my good friend Kristina for an independent guy she knew from church. After work that day, he came over and had no trouble replacing the bad parts and getting everything back in to working order. And he did it so fast and so well that Matt even hired him on to replace the sink valves while he was there. Rhett is totally our “guy” now for any future plumbing endeavors. Matt can do plumbing just fine (he did our entire Master Bath on his own with no issues), but for the low cost and the amount of time it took Rhett versus us, it’s well worth it!

So that put us back on track with the remodel, and Matt spent the next hours scraping up the rest of the laminate flooring and cleaning up the drywall around the shower.

And that’s it. The demo is done! He’s already started making some good strides on piecing things back together – more to come (with pictures) later.