Waterwalls

Since Umberto and Bogdon worked so hard to put up walls, we were bemused to see the plumbers tearing out parts of them even more rapidly.

Toilet tank

The standard of plumbing here is that many toilets have a high tank that's wall-mounted over a pipe that's embedded in the wall or exposed. However, the modern approach is a little different: the toilet consists of the seat and the bowl, with no visible tank of any description. Flushing is accomplished via some push buttons in a plastic plate mounted on the wall behind the toilet.

Come to find out, the plastic plate is connected to a plastic tank concealed in the wall itself. Who knew?

More plumbing lines

Sewer vent stack. One of these is not our stack
but we had to reroute our downstairs neighbor's

We've gone with this system upstairs because it worked better with the look and space constraints in those two bathrooms, but this means that one of the walls that Bogdon built has had to be largely knocked out again to provide space for the tank. In answer to the obvious question, they couldn't just presume where the tank would be because these old houses have such weird angles and slopes that they couldn't predict exactly where the toilet would end up until after the wall had been built. No problem, though...a little hammer job easily knocks the hole where they want it.

However, it does pose a wee challenge for placing the shower valves and other associated plumbing, located just on the other side of the wall...

Wall plumbing

Love,

Alexandra

When you need more space, just
gouge out underneath!