Today is the beginning of a 3 day holiday weekend. This means paint is going to be on sale at Home Depot. So Brian and I went to Home Depot this afternoon to buy some paint so we could work on painting the house and shed this weekend. On our way there we discussed pouring the cement for the front sidewalk. My neighbor GAVE me a cement mixer and I am anxious to use it. Plus I really need a sidewalk leading to my front door from the road. When it rains my house gets filthy. Anyhow, when we were in Home Depot, Brian told me about some toilets on clearance. I have wanted a new toilet since we moved in, the old toilet has started needing to be jiggled after every flush, and they are on clearance; count me in. Sure enough we bought two matching Kohler tanks that worked with two different toilet bowls that were also on clearance. Or so we thought they worked together. Both bowls are elongated but one is regular 15" high for the kid's bath and one is 17" high for the master bath.
Brian of course installed the master toilet first. Funny thing, the tanks said they worked with both models of the bowls only our bowl said pressure once one the price tag. There was no mention of pressure on the box and Home Depot here is notorious for wrong labels. After we got it fully installed, including the seat and tried it out (with water) the flush was terrible. We kept trying and trying to get it to flush better and it just wasn't happening.
So we headed back to Home Depot to buy a pressure tank we thought we saw for $78. Only when we got there it wasn't what we needed. Brian tracked down a worker to ask about the tank and the top going together and he said there should be no trouble with them working. We told him our problem and so he consulted another worker. They had the crazy idea to go ahead and assemble the toilet right there on the rack and test it out. Sure enough the two workers assembled the toilet, brought buckets of water and a bucket to catch the flushed water. Here we are standing out in the middle of Home Depot. There's a guy standing on top of a yellow push ladder pouring water into a toilet up on a rack and another guy is under the rack catching the water. I should have video taped it. Sure enough the experiment showed we were not crazy and that the pressure bowl does not work with the regular top.
We had to go home and uninstall the toilet, reinstall the other one we intended to go into the kid's bathroom and return the pressure bowl. This is a great way to spend a weekend, not.
It was well worth the effort though. The Kohler toilet we installed cost $9.20 for the bowl (regularly $69), the tank cost $5.96 (regularly $104.10), the wax ring was just over $5.00. The most expensive item, more than doubling the price was the toilet seat at $27.00.
We learned a valuable lesson today. When there are extra words in the item description question what exactly that means.
Later this evening Brian and I went out to celebrate our 13th wedding anniversary which is tomorrow. We went to dinner in the nicest place in town, Denny's. It's sad but true, Denny's really is the nicest place in town. I'm not talking good food. I'm talking clean restaurant, quiet (if they seat you away from kids) , waitresses that don't forget you exist, menus that aren't sticky with food, no wobbling tables and mismatched chairs. I really wished I was in Mesa tonight at a nicer place with dimmed lighting, good music playing and the chatter of other adults out having a good time. After dinner we watched Leap Year. Brian was hesitant about a romantic comedy but laughed quited a bit. I think he might have enjoyed the movie more than I did.
After the movie we went to Walgreens and found cards we wanted to give each other. We read each other the card we chose and then didn't buy the cards. The fun was reading what the other had chosen, not in getting a card to put in a box.
So Happy 13th Anniversary to Brian and I. There have been some rough years. It doesn't seem like the rough years are over yet. We are still together and still love and like each other. I hope we are strong enough to see it to the end.
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