Sounds like you had a someone watching over you! Good luck and can't wait to see the new bathroom.

Glad you found it.  Enjoy your new bath!

all the best!

We might all be surprised if we saw what was behind our walls.  Scary.

What a crazy little find!  Good thing you needed to fix some plumbing and tile, or you may not have found this.

Wow, pretty dangerous.  See how everything happens for a reason.  A whole new bathroom, how exciting!

Marie - My contractor might say it was him, I might think someone or something otherwise.

Kevin - I think my wife is smiling on the inside, she may not be showing it on the outside, but she has wanted a new bathroom for the past couple years!

Shirley - It amazes me the things I find in that house.

Jim and Maria - I'm very glad that I found it this way and not the hard way with a fire or something!

Sharon - If it was meant to be, then I suppose it was meant to be.  I can't wait for the new bathroom, the port-o-pottie thing is getting real old!

Bill:  If walls could "really" talk!  Count your blessings that this is now repaired.  I always cringe when I see obvious faults because it naturally makes me wonder what might be wrong that I cannot see. 

Looks like one of the previous owners of your house thought him/herself handy and tried to do some work themselves.  Enjoy your new bathroom.

I agree with everyone else, it is scary what may lurk behind walls, especially when the former owner thought that he/she was handy.

I too had a similar situation about 8yrs ago when I had some electrical work done on my old house. The electrician I hired could not figure out how the home had been wired, it was all a mess with extra wire doing nothing, some live wires stuffed in areas and not capped properly etc..

That is crazy... Now this is something a home inspector would not find.  Let us know how it goes.

P.S. Love your blog header....

Hahah Im sorry what exactly is that electrical mess suppose to be. :) My friend bought a house from me and was telling me when remodeling the tile floor she realized the people put another layer of tile over the old. So she had to bust up two layers of tile. I had to laugh.

Donna - I knew 5 years ago when I bought the house it would have it's faults, I'm just getting a little sick and tires of finding more of them!

Carolyn - that is why I pay people to do that work for me!  I know that I can't do it, so I don't even try!

Christopher - It amazes me everytime I see stuff like this.  Can you imagine what they were thinking?

Christina - I wish my home inspector would have found it.  Highly unlikely that anyone would have though. 

Heather - It amazes me sometimes when I see stuff like this.  Some people should just let the pros. take of things like this!

Bill - You just never know what you might find in a home that has had renovations.

Barrie - So true!  I'm just glad I found it when I did.