I was really hoping to write a post announcing that we had (finally!) completed one room of the house.
Alas, the course of home renovation never did run smooth.
Finishing touches on the dining room were usurped by toilet shopping. In order to maximize our ecoENERGY Retrofit grant, we needed to buy water-saving toilets to replace our lovely pink and green water-losing toilets. The receipt for the new toilets needed to match the date of our energy audit, which happened on Monday. This is how we ended up at Home Depot on Monday night, getting a crash course in toilets. Things to consider when purchasing a new toilet include the number of litres per flush, seat height, and MaP score. For the uninitiated, a toilet's MaP score is "the number of grams of solid waste that a particular toilet can flush and remove from the fixture in a single flush". (Imagine our conversation in the toilet aisle of Home Depot. Married life is so romantic.)
One additional thing to consider if your house is built before 1960, like ours, is the size of the trap. Or, as I like to call it, the hole in the floor underneath the toilet. Today the standard size of a trap is 12 inches, but pre-1960 there were three different sizes. If we didn't have a standard size trap it would mean a special order toilet, likely doubling the cost. A quick trip home confirmed that our toilet trap is the standard size (yay!), and we were able to buy our toilets.
Unfortunately we were not able to take them home with us, because two toilets do not fit into a Honda Civic. Which is how we ended up at Home Depot again on Tuesday night.
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| "You're not putting this on the blog, are you?" |
Luckily they fit into a Mazda 3, which we borrowed from my sister and brother-in-law (thanks guys!).
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| zoom zoom zoom |
Just when things were finally starting to look less like a construction zone and more like a home . . .
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