When the house was built in 1898 it had no electricity and no indoor plumbing. Consequently, these things have been slowly added, as well as can be expected. We have outlets in the middle of our walls instead of on the baseboards because when they were running the wires down the wall if they ran into a stud (our house was built out of outbuildings, other long story....) and could feed the wire down no further they would just place the outlet there.
Are bathroom was it's own little addition to our house. If you stand next to our house you can clearly see that it was a square box and then there is this little addition which contains our back porch and our bathroom.
(Imagine picture of house that I can't get blogger to load right now......)
Now, when the bathroom was designed it contained a bathtub and a toilet. It was probably put in in the 40's or 50's and so showers just weren't the big thing. Sometime in the 70's or 80's there was a cement shower put into the basement. It contained creepy crawly bug like creatures and I refused to use it. So, Jake had the brilliant idea that we were going to redo the downstairs shower. He tore it all apart, started to rebuild and got sidetracked, so there it still sits, in non-workable order. (Another rant for another day.)
So, when we moved in having one shower torn apart, and only a bathtub upstairs we decided we needed a "temporary fix." Jake and his dad cut a hole in the wall above our bathtub and converted it into a shower. Four years later, this temporary fix is still the only working shower in our house. So, imagine my dismay when I came downstairs on Tuesday to find this...
I think now is the time to discuss some more permanent options....
5 comments:
UGH! Water damage! I cannot believe that it has been 4 years since you moved in there. it feels like yesterday that we were tearing out the cieling in the upstairs beadrooms! Crazy!
Our home is filled with partially completed do-it-yourself projects initiated by the hubby. Sadly, it usually takes something gross like this to finally stir them back into action!
Ouch. I redrywalled my whole bathroom due to a problem exactly like this, they make nice mold resistant stuff now.
Eewww, yuk. I know what your talking about. I live in a 60 year old house. Why someone would put a wooden window in the shower I'll never know. Our whole window grew awful stuff too. It was the pits getting it replaced and waterproofed. Ah, the joys of home ownership.
Stella, the shower likely didn't come until after the window....
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