Some days are worse than others or the joys of living in 107-year-old house!

I do have both hot and cold running water in my bathroom sink but the cold water in the bath/shower was just a bare trickle and I finally called my favorite plumber... Both he and I thought corrosion has built up in the old galvanized pipes and it would be a relatively easy fix....NOT!

After trying to fix it through the faucet   he needed to break out the tiles to get to the   pipes in the wall but he still could not clear it.

Then he hoped the problem was where they had joined copper pipe  to the old galvanized pipe and the only way to get to it was to tear out part of the wall in the pantry.. (an old closet)

So he proceeded to tear out the wall in the pantry and was able to access that joint but the problem was even further back, There is just a small cellar and there is no access to those pipes from beneath the house..


So the one option left is tearing up the bathroom floor and possibly part of the laundry room floor to fix it. This is hardly a viable option because of the cost.   The other options are to get a faucet/hose adapter and run a hose from the sink to the tub to take a shower or fill the tub with hot water and bring buckets of cold water from the kitchen...

So I ended the day with no fixed water line, several hours of a plumber, and a big mess in the bathroom and pantry. There is a shower upstairs which my husband uses... But the only reason our marriage has survived 38 years is because we have never had to share a bathroom.  Today I am going out to find an adapter and short hose...