More Preparations for Bathroom Renovation Fun

It's called Orizzonti Dawn.
To put a perfectly clear, specific idea in your heads as to what it looks like, it's sort of, uh, beige.

I'll tell you this: the shit is heavy.

Fifty Gallons of Christmas in August

  
Yes indeedy, folks, that's a brand new water heater. The old unit was actually quite effective at heating water, but it just didn't know when to stop. Now I'm as big a fan of 50 gallons of continuously boiling water as the next guy, but it just didn't fit into my household's active, two-career, non-second-degree-burn lifestyle. It would have cost some real cashola to replace the thermostat on the old one, and it was an eight year old water heater.

The best part of all this is that I instructed the plumber to put a few hundred bouillon cubes inside of the new unit. We now have hot running broth at our house.

The Saga Continues

Just look at this stylish, not-quite-level, not-quite-tall-enough vanity:

Yes, that's brown formica with granite inexpertly glued over it:

Here's most of the vanity (I deduced that, from the "Lot #18" scrawled on the underside of the top, it was original to the 1981 construction of the house), in the trash:

I enjoyed slicing it up with my electric saw. Part of it was mushy from rot.
Here is what remains. I need to replace some of the subflooring:

This whole project has been more of an archaeological dig than a home improvement project. I'm penetrating through layers of stupidity and laziness. Why was the vanity not tall enough? The granite floor is glued over at least one layer of something else. The vanity stood there while shitty flooring was built up around it.