Living in an old house is interesting. When we bought our old farm house we were able to remodel the kitchen and update the paint and carpet upstairs. Our upstairs only has two bedrooms so our boys have always been downstairs in our somewhat-finished basement. It would be familiar to people who have lived in old homes, a lot of painted cinderblock, church carpet (church cabinets, church kitchen, etc.), and an odd layout. What almost no one would be familiar with is our pedestal toilet. I'm devastated that we didn't get a picture of it in all it's glory. This house didn't have plumbing to the basement and was on a septic tank for quite some time. So in order to have toilet #2, this is what they did.
Now just imagine a toilet sitting on top of these steps. The unpainted cinderblock on the back wall is where the back of the toilet was. Pretty awesome & in totally working order for the first 4-5 years in this house. So step #1: take out the cement throne.
I took our "big boys" to a museum one day and came home to this....demo is so so DIRTY!! We've got all our boys downstairs in nicely finished rooms along with our family room so we had to keep it all closed off. Corey had this demolished and cleaned up in a day..he's amazing. The following week the Young Men in our ward hauled it all from our backyard (Corey stuffed everything through a coal shoot in our backyard) to the dumpster in the front.
Step # 2: get a sewer line into the basement. We had to have a cement cutter come cut a line through the basement floor to where a drain is and the future bathroom would be. Then Corey rented a cement mixer and brought in the troops to help pour it. Again, a lot of hard work and creativity here.
It was really nice to be at this point in the re-model. A nice, clean slate felt good.
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