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Installing a Toilet and Vanity in the Half Bathroom
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" But look at this more this is a true mosaic. It's made out of -- several colors of marble that have been tumbled to give them kind of -- an ancient effect. Very very beautiful product. And here we've always had -- half bathroom under the staircase or at least project the last fifty or sixty years we've just totally redone it new plaster center. Here we've got a new Kohler. Toilet and tender gray which isn't very very nice coat but what I like is the design of these there. Kind of reminiscent of early toilet fixtures from the turn of the century where they had attacked like that lifted up a little bit. And then in the corner this is small space and you've got to fit things in in the corner we've got. A vanity that has this. Half circle. Designed into it in circular doors these were made by our friends -- is not new Holland Pennsylvania heritage. And then what we're dealing with right now as fitting Carrara marble top. That has to be precisely fit in and also we're installing the sink in the fittings."
" I -- pretty obvious all you do is you turn it upside down. And you install a sink in the fittings in this position so you know rapid going to garage mechanic on your back to its -- the bathroom. So let's talk about the the sink here how do you attach the sink to the marble top can reduce the vinyl adhesive caulking wooden. And so there's a bead of vinyl and ease of caulking all the way around saying yes the roots. And then just these clamps here and then there are these clamps that are supplied by the factory Kohler factories and lead shields have been. Drove into the mobbed by the -- company yes it was a pretty complicated thing you've gotta specify exactly the size and marble of course the architect minute template for the marble company -- protected this up so we can all look at she's that beautiful. Yeah again it's the same grade. And in this is very close approximation to the type of early plumbing installations you'd see in the 1890s then. Carefully that OK what's next ready -- another front related to put responsive that we have to put some sealed. She joined here you really shouldn't be using any plumbers putty because they claim that it'll damage the model. Oh yes anything with an oil base to it if you use it as a caulking product around marble can ruin the marble because it's a very porous stone. And and you don't want that to happen. Positions this way. Bronze and copper beautiful. Have to be very careful not to crack -- will -- he's been correct so you can place too much pressure on that's correct. OK and now the mixer realize he's in the middle but you're connecting with. Well this is new to me it's it's kind of a vinyl tubing so vinyl to wring their hands of a woven. Fiberglass -- in Sidon. And it it's. Lot easier to work with eyes and solicited is okay and network with."
