THURS. - Well we had a very interesting day today! We woke to find that our toilet had a leak. We were told that there is a maintenance man who does repairs to RV's here in Silver Springs, but that he charges $100 an hour and he works slow. So, Richard decided to give it a try himself. Boy was it a job! He had to drain the water & completely remove the toilet outside to to see what the problem was. He thought that it could be a seal. So he had to go to a hardware several times for parts. Because the toilet leaked, the carpeting in the bathroom got wet, so he had to pull it all up! Again what a messy job! I helped as much as I could. So we cleaned the toilet real good, outside on our picnic table !(we probably have the cleanest toilet here at the campsite!), & I had to sit on it while he was lying on the floor to bolt it in place, we turned the water back on and it started squirting water! He had to unscrew it & take the whole thing out again. He realized there should be an "0" ring, so again he had to go back to the hardware store for it. Well again we got it in place (after poor Richard cut his hand twice & whacked his head - it is very close quarters in that small bathroom) I sat on it again while he had to lay on the floor to reach the bolts. This time it worked - so far no leak! (we are keeping our fingers crossed that it will hold until we get home)
People here at the campsite could not believe that Richard did it by himself. They said that would have been about an $800. job if we had someone do it. Leave it to Richard, there is not much that he can't fix, & he had all the tools he needed with us. We had a fan going all day to dry the wood that was under the carpeting. We will have to make do with a small carpet in there until we get home, then we are going to put new tile in, instead of carpeting. Well after we got everything all cleaned up, we went to the pool here at the campsite to relax. It was already late afternoon, too late to go anywhere. What a day!!
