/diy/ - Do It Yourself

The previous owner of this house apparently either did not know shit or hired people who did not know shit to do shit in his house.

>Install 1/2" cement backer board in shower surround and on the floor with 1" drywall screws
>No sealing the corners of the surround backer
>Self-installed the shittiest vinyl sliding window without tempered glass in the alcove using common nails for the flashing (rust streaks on the siding now)
>Zero attention to blocking water ingress around the window inside (there is a window by the tub alcove) - no caulk anywhere
>Zero attention to blocking water ingress around the mixer valves or tub spout rough-ins - no caulk anywhere
>No caulk around the grab handle mounting
>Did not extend the toilet flange to account for the tile and instead used two wax rings
>For some stupid reason took out the crippling under the bath wall (sits on a bearing wall) and so of course the resulting water damage for all their other stupid shit made all the floorboards warp away from the unsupported wall above and the wall itself sagged in the middle.

It's that last one that got my panties in a real bunch.

Then like the good white folk they were they boxed it all in with drywall and fucked off for a couple of decades before having the cast-iron American Standard tub spray finished and then selling their shit-dripping, wall-weeping, 10-inch-fucking-stub-outs-sticking-out-of-the-wall mess off to me instead of investing the money in fixing it.

The tiling floor/walls was fair and held up until the rusty heads on the drywall screws started to pop tiles in the shower around the tub.

Pic related is my phase 1 ghetto repair. Measured at the studs I went from 5/8" at the worst part of the dip to 3/16", a 1/2" dip is under 1/8", and 1/4" gaps are all gone now. I can now sheathe my floor in peace knowing that I have in some small way helped make the world a better place.

Thank you for reading my blog post. You can now return to your regularly scheduled fapping.