Is that a Toilet in Your Closet? Or are You Just Happy to See Me?

There are currently two toilets sitting in the middle bedroom at the house.  One is tucked safely in the closet.  The other is sitting next to the wall.  How did they get there?  Well, let's see.....

Last week we noticed that the one remaining toilet in the house (the one in the guest bath) was running quite a bit.  Since we don't want to run up our water bill, we decided to go ahead and replace it.  That meant a lot of looking around on the internet and a couple of trips to the local Lowe's and Home Depot to check out the options.  Finally, we decided on this one from Home Depot:

It wasn't the cheapest option, but at $98 it was easy on the budget.  It has a dual flush option, which we liked, and had good reviews on the Home Depot site.  

With that decided, it was time to buy.  Landon and I loaded up in the van with his parents and headed to Home Depot.  They boys got the toilets (two since they decided to buy one for the master bathroom as well).  Everything went fine until they tried to load the newly purchased toilet into the van.  Turns out the bottom of the box wasn't taped properly so when Landon and Alan went to lift it, the bottom gave way and the toilet fell out.  Landon was able to mostly stop the fall with his leg, but it did hit the pavement, leaving a small chip in the front of the rim.  Since we were still in the parking lot, they went back inside to exchange it.

After another few minutes waiting in the parking lot, a new, properly boxed toilet was wheeled out and both were loaded into the van.  Once we got to the house, the exchanged toilet was easily packed into the house and tucked away in the bedroom closet.

The other toilet, it was found, had a poorly taped bottom as well, so it was carefully unloaded from the van and unboxed in the garage before being carried into the house in pieces.  

In the process of this, Landon managed to hit his arm on an exposed nail in the garage, leaving a gash.  

But in the end, both toilets ended up in the house, although neither one has been installed yet.  We found that we can't install the new toilet in the guest bathroom until we replace the subfloor since it is mostly rotted away.  One more thing to add to the list.