Update on the Auction Shower :  Somewhat of a disaster.  It was a Bargain!  We were there for 6 Hours, and it took another 2 hours to get my Crew fed and delivered to their homes.  Several days went into planning and preparation.  After all that, DH & sons could NOT get the thing up the stairs to the bathroom it was to go into.  Un-be-lievable!  He had measured the doors and stairs and landings and hallway.  I had measured the tub and it's surround.  Soooo ....  When I got it home, the first thing he had to do was to remove the bathroom door; just like he was planning to anyway to get the old tub out.  The old tub came out peacefully and is currently sitting in the coffee table space in the Living Room.  (Yep, it gets better.)  So he removes the bathroom door, and it's frame.  Re-measures.  Removes part of the wall.  Removes more of the wall.  Finally he thinks it'll work. 

So, the big day comes when both Sons are home for the day to help.  (I was thankfully at work.) 

I get a call from DS#2.  Do I know where their gloves are?  (The regular coat closet is part of this renovation, all gloves are in the Green Bin, not the Blue one.)  While the front side of an "Acrylic" tub is all smooth and pretty, the back side is the opposite:  Fiberglass is hard on the hands and other body parts. 

I get a call:  "Geometry is NOT my Friend!"  We discuss alternative ways to turn the tub on it's way up the stairs.  Did I mention that this is a One Piece Tub and Shower that is 5' x 34" x Over 6 feet tall?  Did I mention that the stairs have a short run, a 90 degree right turn, a long run, another 90 degree right turn into the hallway, and then Another 90 degree right turn into the bathroom (which has an XXL wide opening right now).  And, when you get there, the tub really needs to be turned 180 degrees from where it needs to be to get up the other turns?  That means that the faucet end of the tub will actually be roughly 10' directly above the bottom Newel Post.

I get a call from DS#1.  He's biding his time on the upper landing where he's trapped while DH goes to get a tool.  "Dad want's to know how much you want to keep this bannister / guardrail thing."  Ummm, I do want it to go Back if it has to come out.

I get a call from DD#2.  She's been sent to find the SAWSALL.  She's the Pink Girl and 13.  She has no idea what a sawsall is.  Until I remind her that DH was using it to take out the bathroom door last night, both making so much noise that she couldn't hear her TV show AND getting all kinds of "dusty gunk" ALL OVER the bathroom counter and Mirror AND IN HER TOOTHBRUSH !  "Um, SweetTea:  What does your Daddy want with the Sawsall?", I ask.

Call from DH:  Can he cut the top of the Shower Surround off the Tub and take it up in two pieces?  It seems he might have mis-measured the Height of the "little slopey part of the ceiling" over the bottom run of stairs.  And he thought I was surely mistaken about a 6 Foot Tall Shower surround.  Why would it be that tall?  "Surely you meant 60 inches."  I suggest that it's time for a cold drink, a little TV, maybe a nap.  We should go out to dinner....

I come home early.  I admire the new "rustication" on the woodwork and paneling of the stairway.  I complement him on not removing the banister or newel posts.  DS#1 has "gone to work", he got called in, emergency, you know.  DS#2 and DD#2 are sheepishly washing dishes and doing all their other chores that have been let slide due to The Renovation.  DH is sacked out in the recliner.

I remeasure everything.  DS#2 and I build a "mock up" of the tub using Pink Insulation Board and a refrigerator box and Duct Tape.  We keep cutting it down until we get something that CAN fit up the stairs.  DS#2 helps us dry run it several times.  Then we wake up Dad to go to dinner, and Big Box Building Supply in The City, because he's allready driven the Local Hardware guy to request that he not Always try to Shop Local......

to be continued.....