This week’s theme is “Messy.” I could go the messy house route, or the messy kid face route, or even the messy wet and muddy dog route. But I opted to go for the “messy home improvement” route. And this one actually has a two part story.

First part is that a few years ago, Mike’s cousin re-did our master bathroom. He removed the old shower enclosure and tiled it. In the process a plumber came and fitted the shower pan. That turned out to be a problem because he didn’t do it right and he had to keep coming back and coming back to problem solve. Eventually it involved cutting a hole in our foyer ceiling and installing an access panel. Whatever he did eventually stopped the daily leaking, but after returning from each vacation, it was sure to leak for a few days before “self-fixing.”

Here’s a picture of the shower area as it was being renovated. It was a very messy process!

Well, that’d be a messy story on its own, but it became messier. Our neighbor does handyman work, and we recently hired him to figure out why the shower kept leaking. He took one look in it and said, “The plumber didn’t install the shower base correctly.” I guess it would have been a fairly easy fix if the plumber hadn’t broken parts of the shower pan in his attempts to “fix” it. Now the only way to fix it was to remove two rows of tile and take out the broken shower pan. I thought putting tile IN was messy. But apparently grinding tile OUT is even messier! Everything on the second floor ended up covered in gritty dust.

But now the shower is put back together and it doesn’t leak……yet. The moment of truth will come after our next vacation.

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