What good remodeling story doesn't have at least one flooded bathroom in it?
We had ours about a week ago. The 2nd-floor bathroom was stripped out to the bare studs, with even the floor pulled up to expose the joists, wiring, and plumbing. The latter two got replaced while the former got braced and sistered where necessary. The project took three or four days... the point being that the plumbing was left unfinished and open for two or three nights.
Naturally, the plumbers left everything in a safe condition at the end of the workday. They're professionals, after all.
Scene: interior, kitchen. Time: morning. Jim makes coffee on the 1st floor while Kathy takes a bath on the 3rd floor. Jim notices sound of splashing water, presumably running through new drain pipes nearby. He idly lays a hand on new pipe, makes a confused face, looks up, and... Splash!
The water isn't just running inside the new pipe, it's running on the outside, too. And puddling on the floor. In fact, the 1st-floor bathroom is flooding. Bathwater has been running from the open pipes directly overhead, through the cut floor, and leaking through the ceiling into the 1st-floor bathroom. At least it's got vinyl flooring.
I wait until Kathy's out of the tub to tell her that the toilets use the same drain pipe.
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