I got a shower!!!!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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It may be mundane and pointless to you, but I’m so happy. I took the first shower in our new tub. We got our income tax money, and a construction worker friend who saw our bathroom was so bad that we only had to pay the cost as a down payment. He insisted as he actually said he couldn’t believe we were still using the old one–one false move and one of us could have fallen through the rotted floor in the cracked plexiglass tub. (Well, one of the other people in the house. I refused to use it after a while.)

He used a lot of good stuff–this special treated wood that sweats out moistures, and is used at docks and lasts 30 years. A metal tub. He reinforced everythign, rebuilding some of the runners. He fixed the plumbing that had apparently been messed up since the house was built (the pipe didn’t make it all the way to the bathroom drain.)

It also means we finally have a working second toilet. No more waking people up to go to the bedroom bathroom at night.

This is the first shower in an unbroken tub at my house for 2 effing years. No more washing in the sink or using the tub scared to death I was going to break my legs falling the 3 feet to the ground.

I’m just so, so happy. And I had to tell you.

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Well, I know how you feel. I’ve built my very small house, got the toilet and sink plumbed in, but the funds are just not there to panel and tile the bathroom, so I’ve got a lean to arrangement in the yard for now, like for the last year, severely hampering my ability to have a shower whenever I want one.

I’ll never forget plumbing in the shower at my mother in laws house (previously it had been outside as well) and my four year old nephew announcing he was going to bathe “in the glorious kingdom”.

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That’s awesome. :slight_smile: Congratulations!

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I know how you feel! When I was in high school, my parents remodeled the bathroom with the shower and for months and months, the only way to get clean was to take a bath. How do I feel about baths?

Let’s just say that since the day the shower was available again, I haven’t taken another bath. That was fourteen years ago.

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And all this time you thought you were a grower!

Oh- wait. That’s not what you meant.