Next time take a shower BEFORE you visit us!

When Sean, Emily, Soren, and Sebastian visited us during the Christmas holidays we discovered that the faucet in the guest bathroom shower was broken…..so we called our favorite contractor, Brandon from Sunbelt Remodeling, and asked him to fix our faucet.

Within a day, he found that we had a water leak—somewhere in the walls of the master bathroom.  The only fix for an old home built on a slab was to run all new water pipes down from the attic.  This resulted in multiple holes in EVERY room, except our Dancing/Activity Room.  

Then another water leak was discovered in the kitchen.  So it was necessary to cut holes in the stucco on both the north and south outside walls of our home.

A week after starting to fix a “broken faucet,” the workers started to run the new pipes up to the attic, pull them throughout our home, and put Nuestra Casa back together again.

Now for the fun part— I got to design the replacement tiles for the guest bathroom faucet repair!

Isn’t our new bathroom tile beautiful?  We like it much better than the original boring white tiles.  But we’re  not sure that we would have paid almost $9,000 to redo a few tiles.  Luckily, we also have new bathtub faucets and brand new water lines throughout our entire home.  

We thought our “Water Project” was all done.  But no!  

Now that we didn’t have a water leak in our pipes, when we turned on the water, there was extra water pressure flowing through our pipes and into our 17 year old water heater….and suddenly the ancient water heater sprung a leak, and we had a flood in the Dancing/Activity Room!

So we finally we got to have a hole cut in our Dancing/Activity Room!  Now we can say that every single room had multiple holes cut in the plaster board, two holes cut in the outside stucco walls, repair to the textured dry walls, repainting the walls……AND new water lines, fancy tile in the guest bathroom, and a new water heater!

We certainly hope that we are done with our 2022 “Water Project,” and that we never have to repair another faucet.  Just in case our faucets decide to be temperamental again, please dear family, take a shower before you visit us.