SO CLOSE AND YET...

... SO FAR

I had honestly believed we would be moving in to our Hawthorne house this week.  Really!  As I write this blog entry the floor finishers are applying the final coat of finish to the entire house and the house is off limits for the upcoming 36 hours.  This was to have been the final day of contractors in the house.  

As it turns out, there remains a significant amount of electrical work and a small amount of plumbing to be done. In addition and most unfortunately, there was an incident last Friday which presents a big fat road block to our move.  In the process of running water through the shower plumbing, we filled up the shower floor and discovered, much to our chagrin, that there was a leak.  

We discovered this as water came dripping through the kitchen ceiling and new pendant lighting.

(insert a few choice expletives here %$*#@!!)

The question was whether it was a plumbing issue or a tiling issue.  Both of these jobs we contracted out.  Upon a bit of exploration into the leaking ceiling this is what we exposed.

Exploring the origin of the leak in my once beautiful kitchen ceiling

All the plumbing appeared tight so the culprit must be improper liner installation in the shower pan.

The way you find this out is, and you may have guessed....you remove the tile.

Wallace chisels out the shower floor

Tile is 1/2 up

Once the 2 inches concrete was removed it was obvious that the leak was due to improper installation of the liner by the tile man.  There was a hole near the drain and a split in the outside corner.  We chose to let this original tile man go 2 months ago because of slow and unsatisfactory work.  We hired another highly recommended installer to complete the job and we have been very pleased (name and number to come upon completion of kitchen back splash).

The good news is....and this is a st-r-e-t-ch....It is good that it leaked now before we were all moved in and had a long standing leak AND mold with which to contend.

A full bath reveal is to come once the re-tiling is done (perhaps this too is another skill Donnie will teach me).