Vanity of vanities, all is vanity

As you might expect, this post is about installing a vanity. The previous owners really liked pedestal sinks, which are OK except that they are ugly. Also you can't store stuff in them and they make plumbing a pain. So we picked up a new-to-us bathroom vanity off Craigslist.

The vanity sat around for a while until the bathroom sink got a clog, and we decided, as long as we're unclogging the sink, we may as well take the whole darn thing out and replace it. Also, by "we" I mean "L", "J", and "J" respectively.  The result:

The hole in the linoleum has been reclassified as an "accent patch"

And it looks even nicer under the hood:

Things I learned: the curved piece of piping is called the "P-trap", not, as I thought, the "You-tube"

And best of all, it only took a day and I only had to make three visits to the hardware store.

Visit 1: (morning): Get snake to clean out drain (fits on power drill). Get materials.
Visit 2: Discover that pipe coming down from new sink is 1/2" too short. Get pipe extender.
Visit 3: (5 minutes before hardware store closing time): Discover that seal between P trap and piping downstream, which we did not change, no longer holds. Hardware store man explains that the pipe had the wrong elastomeric seal - we needed a slip ring, while they had some sort of square o-ring in there. So apparently our sink was being held together by years of accumulated crud.

It does look rather nice, and it's even nicer knowing that with this job done, I'll never have to do plumbing in this house ever again.

And in case you need a before (we ever moved in), during, and after:

Accent patch be gone!

No leaks!  But we still have a phone jack next to the toilet.