Bathroom fixtures and tiles

Following up on our last post, these are the projects that we’ve been working on.

As we get closer to hiring the plumber, our friend John Paul suggested that we purchase the bathroom fittings, so we can determine exactly where the water pipes need to go. To this end, we’ve been scouring Facebook Marketplace. First thing we got was a lovely sink by Toto from Scranton, PA, bit of a drive, but the seller and the sink were both lovely and you couldn’t tell that it wasn’t new. Second purchase was a nice Toto Toilet, second hand, but never installed and still in the cardboard crate, thank you James. Lastly, we picked up a great cast-iron bath from Jake. It is 3″ shorter than my ideal length (based on my parents bath), but I’m sure it will be fine, and if it isn’t, we’ll get a longer bath for upstairs.

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A few posts back, I mentioned we were casting concrete tiles. We been a bit amiss of late, and haven’t made any recently, however, we have been testing the tile sealers. The candidates are from Green Building Supply and Tile Armor. With double sided tape we stuck down a bunch of them in our entrance way and marked which primer we used. They’ve been down now for about six weeks, and I have to say that they have stood up well to some harsh, abrasive conditions, sand, grit, mortar etc. Testing continues.

I’m still struggling with health issues, which is slowing me down a lot. Dr. said that my medication is likely to contribute to my fatigue and general sense that my body is feeling sour, difficult to describe, but that is the best I can do. When I’m on steroids I’m great, but when I taper off them, the condition returns. I’d love to stay on steroids but the side effects are bad and can be permanent. Condition is extreme eczema, which came out of the blue. Do an image search and you’ll get the idea. I’m pretty much seeing the Dr. every week to two weeks.