I swear to god pedes, I fucking swear to god this house is cursed and the second we decided to sell it it said "fuck you guys" and started falling apart. You guys know about the leak in the living room, and the leak in the ceiling. As I sit here writing to you there is a huge hole in my kitchen cieling and a huge section of drywall missing from the living room, it's cold, everything sucks, so this morning my wife is taking a shower and the sewer starts backing up into the shower with her. Shit, toilet paper, dead roaches, fuck. So using the little bit of plumbing know how I know I attempted to snake the drain, I attempted chemicals, nothing works, and I don't think the house has a main sewer clean out because it's older... so now a plumber is coming out to snake the main sewer line. fuck. sorry about the language.
Edit to Add: Dude leans my toilet against a cabinet and it falls an breaks. Then he comes into the house talking about how he saw a hair line fracture on the toilet and that's why it broke. Then he tells me the whole job is going to be 495.
Horse shit.
It's cast iron, I wonder if I can't hammer it down a bit, I only need about a half inch.
Ah, I thought it was sticking up too far for the toilet, I was just suggesting putting a shim under the toilet with the waterproof vinyl deck boards cut to fit flush with the edges of the toilet. Do you have any pics?
Well i fixed it so I don't have any pics from when it was incorrect.
The last person who owned this house gerry rigged a bunch of stuff. The toilet was sitting on some bricks that were cut to about 1.5 inches and placed under it. They covered this with caulk.
What I did was hammered the cast iron pipe down, and I bought a new flange, those together lowered it enough for the toilet to rest on the tile.
all things considered it cost me about 500.
ever seen the movie The Money Pit?
I bet you can't wait to get rid of it. I have had to fix a lot of jerry rigging in people houses. Old houses seem to be the worst. One of my friends bought an old house. All the timbers in the basements had to be jacked up and sistered. That was a pain in the ass.
Yeah I complain about it a lot, but i bought it very cheap and i have a ton of equity so in the grand scheme of things its not that bad.
You are right though i cant wait to sell it.