Seed Books, Bathroom Changes, & Water Alarm

I’ve received my first two seed catalogs, for ordering seeds, for my 2018 garden.  The Whole Seed Catalog was given to me by my sister.  She came up for Thanksgiving to visit and see the changes made since the water damage to our house.

Before I continue on, I wanted to say I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving.  I know I haven’t been around much, and I apologize.  Life threw us a curve ball, with the pipe coming apart under the house and our wood floors turning into hard waves…..pretty much like you would see in the movie “Tremors” with the actual ground.

All the mold, and water damage has been removed.  Our floors have been replaced and we now have our home back (6 days before Thanksgiving)!!!  We didn’t leave the house while all this work was going on.  The crew worked totally around us for 10 whole weeks.  

On my last real post, I provided y’all with a sample of the wood flooring being installed in our home.  Now I’m going to provide you with a few pictures of the new flooring for our two bathrooms. 

Because the flooring in each bathroom had to be totally removed to get to the sub floors, we had to replace the tile, not just on the floor, but in each shower to match.  

You’ll notice there’s still some work to be done in each bathroom, like painting the ceilings, mop boards, changing cabinets, lights, and blinds.  Adding towel bars, vents, and caulking a few places.   These projects will be added to our list of things to do, and will be done at our convenience.    The water damage was something that had to be addressed immediately, therefore we had no choice, we had to get tile and have the bathroom floors tiled.  

Hall Bathroom Before Fixing Floor

Hall Bathroom (need to remove & replace cabinet, blind, & lights)

Shower Changes

Master Bath Before Fixing Floor

 

Master Bathroom After Fixing Floor (Need to still pain mop boards, need to replace towel holders,& lights)

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We have purchased water alarms at Lowes, and have been installed them throughout our entire home, near ever pipe and appliance using or holding water. We’ve placed 6 alarms in our tight crawl space to prevent having a pipe issue ever again. Water alarms vary in cost depending on the make and model purchased.  We picked up The Watch Dog Water Alarm, Model BWD-HWA by Glentronics for approximately $11.00 each.  The alarm has a sensor on the bottom of each device.   It also has a 6 foot sensor wire so you can place the box anywhere and run the wire near the water source. It was easy to install, and should prevent a water accident from happening again. 

One of the water alarms went off two days ago.  This alarm was set next to the water softener inside our laundry room.  Come to find out the water softener machine had a small crack in one of the hoses.  Water began to drip, a small amount from the line causing a 110 decibel alarm to go off.  The alarm could be heard down the driveway.  Our son Tank and Bulldog Man came running in the house to find out where that alarm was coming from, and fixed the problem.

 

**Note, I’ve not been asked to advertise, or received any compensation from Glentronics.  

I picked up these alarms to avoid the disaster from ever having a plumbing pipe come apart/break ever again.  This will immediately notify us about problems in the crawl space, and hopefully avoid major damage again.