Bringing Water To The Masses

Last year, I worked up the nerve to turn off the water to the house and cut our water lines in the basement.

The house we moved into four years ago has a full sized unfinished basement and it was stubbed for a bathroom. With the kids' classroom and playroom, as well as Gidget's sewing room, being in the basement now, it only made sense that we run the plumbing for the bathroom down there.

We called around and every plumber we talked too wanted an outlandish fee to do the work, so, having done small plumbing jobs around our old house, I thought, "How hard can it be"? and we bought the materials we would need to bring the water down to the toilet and sink. That was a scary day. I got the work done, and we now have a toilet and sink in the basement, but the finer finishings have not been completed.

We ran out of money to complete the job thus far, but Gidget has been looking for a while at bathroom fixtures. She likes the brushed aluminum, crhome and the Gold Taps. I told her she could pick whatever she wanted for that bathroom, and she's been looking ever since. Who knew deciding on bathroom fixtures could be so difficult?

Taps4Less.com has a great assortment of bathroom taps and shower enclosures. Gidget loves those super shower things with a thousand jets and all that jazz, but I may have to hire a plumber to put something like that in, is she decides she needs one of those.