I’d always wondered why the previous occupant had used atypical/nonstandard repairs to some trivial drains.

I mean, these things are only hand-tight.

To their credit, it didn’t leak at all. At all.

Right, so, let’s start to disassemble and make it right…

Nine FEET of electrical tape later…

Wait, there’s more electrical tape?

Honestly, that nut is quite loose now that the majority of the tape is removed.

Yep. And it’ turned out that

• the tailpiece (the metal pipe shown) was glued into the wye underneath of it
• and the nut was glued onto the wye and
• the upper nut had another type of electrical tape (yellow this time) wrapped around it two or three times

I suppose they had gone to all of that work to try stopping what was thought to be a leak. But the actual issue was that the the upper nut was simply not screwed onto the basket above it.

So, I just replaced the parts that I simply didn’t want to clean glue off of.

And moving on to the last set of doors; I’ve only four of them, but am going to do them in pairs…and it’ll take a full weekend waiting for them to cure.

Work in progress… that edge is going to need just as many coats as the door body has.

That green was also brushed — it’s under the black. I’m not even sure what to call that particular shade of green. Lime green? Seafoam? Pear? Pea? Parakeet? Meh… it’s a variety of white now. Marshmallow? Coconut? Swiss coffee?

By the way: it needed six coats of white to cover the black. Granted, the paint was thinned slightly to improve its flow through the HVLP, but six coats is a bit much.

Right, so doors #1 – #8 are done.

This is one of those things that I knowingly dismissed a few years ago when we bought the house. But now I’m getting more exposure directly to the doors, it’s kind of bothering me:

I like the fact there’s a cat-door allowing access to the utility room–and their cat boxes…

…but if you’re going to go through the effort to cut a hole in the door, maybe make the additional effort — not going the extra mile, but at least the extra 24-inches — to at least get it roughly centered.

It’s not the only one. There’s also the fire door to the garage that’s also endured the same slapdash home-improvement.

Fortunately, the steel fire door for the outer garage has its dog door centered.