After two hours of crawling under my house and prying out rotten wood, disposing of various debris, and happening across a 100+ year old bottle, in preparation to make the second bathroom serviceable for the christmas party, … I have slimmed down my expectations of how I’m going to get it working.
It was a bit wet under the house, and grubbing around under there got me quite dirty. But there’s enough to do around the house to fill the remaining 10 days if I gave up on the bathroom. But I’m not going to give up yet. It will be minimal and arty.
Afterward I immediately had to strip down and take a shower, being covered in dirt head to toe. Upon reaching down to pick up my clothes afterword I got a whiff of urine. I suspect not from the bathroom previously above, but from the semi-feral felines and possums that enjoy romping around under the house. They went straight into the washing machine.
There’s a lot of cleanup I’d like to do under the house. Remove old unused pipe. Remove fallen useless insulation. Perhaps even prevent heavy rain from draining under the house to pool.