If there was a toilet there before and you already had an existing flange all you should have needed to do was throw a wax ring down and bolt the thing in. At least this time it went smoothly. :)

I LOVES me a handy man - buttcrack and all.

About 4 or 5 years ago I renovated my bathroom.

Most of it was done in a week. The "finishing touches" took me the rest of the year :D

exactly - but the last time i broke the cardinal law of plumbing and started the job at night .. only to find the existing flange was completely fucked by the previous install .... and it was sunken well below the level of the floor.

trying to make it work with what i had at the time was a futile nightmare.
plus - the water shut off valve wouldnt completely close..

(had to turn the house water completely off and get a flange extension the next day)

Yeah I hate that, I'm kind of a hardware/fix it guy myself and plumbing is the worst simply because if you don't have everything you need the job has to wait. A simply five dollar extension ring gave you a night without water... that sucks.

ok .. just did the last one... also without incident.

now who's Joe the Plumber ?

thats right .. i'm your plumbers helper, baby

I tried to fix my water heater once haha but didn't go so well. I don't know anything about plumbing. I like learning how to work on cars though. My dad knows a lot and I think it's wonderful to know how to replace parts on your car. If I didn't want to go into the medical field I think I would've taken some auto mechanics courses. I love cars though.

It's insane to think about how much we depend on our cars, yet so many people know next to nothing about them, how they run or how to fix them. Insane I tell you!

Paying labor for oil changes or simple replacement parts like wiper blades or headlights... Nuts! (I will admit I pay for oil changes in the winter though but that's because I live in Minnesota and it's fuckin' cold, not because I don't know how to change my oil.)

I pay for oil changes, it's so much faster than doing it myself because I can get it done while I'm out and about, and with the price of a quart of oil it seems well worth it.

A bit of handyman work I want to do is drill a hole through the window frame that I can put some tubeing through to make a chimney out of to exhale my smoke out of dureing the winter.. It's to cold to have the window open sometimes, somehow I don't think I'm going to get the go ahead from the landlord though..