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3rd Floor bathroom progress

One of the cool things about the house is that when taking a shower in the 3rd floor bathroom, ones head will be in the skylight dome....Do they issue tickets for flashing a helicopter?

You can also see that the HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) guys started last week. They started to pull duct work up to the air exchanger and fan on the 3rd floor....

All 4 of the toilets in the house are wall mounted Geberit low flow toilets with dual flush mode. You can see the `carrier' for the toilet in the middle of this pic. The tank for the toilet is hidden in the wall cavity.

We bought almost all of our plumbing fixtures online. The sinks and toilets were purchased from Ira Wood & Sons in Kentucky. They have an excellent website for comparing products:

http://store.yahoo.com/irawoodinc/tewamotosy.html

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Anonymous said…
Hi Mike and Jeff,
Jeff, this is a voice from your past. Actually from your next-door past. It's me, Nancy! Tami passed along your website to me so I could see your house. Looks great. What a lot of work you have done. It was lots of fun to see and also to see an updated picture of my old buddy. OK, comment about old is in reference as to how long we have known each other, not about our age, which we are just not going to talk about! haha Mom has often given me updates on you and Tam, Rog and Scott because she sees your Mom for bridge. But when we were out in August for a visit for my Mom's birthday, I got a lovely call from Tami. What a treat it was to catch up with her. I am so glad things are going well for you. Remember when I worked at SMF blood center and you were around the corner and we would go out for Japanese? I have never done anything on a blog. So maybe I'm not supposed to write this much. Anyways, you can drop a line to me at beadedhorse@earthlink.net if you want. Hi Mike, we have never met, but any friend of Jeff's is a friend of mine. Nice job on your website. Well, bye Jeff. Hope to hear from you. Nancy
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