Ooooh the plumber.

What a jerk.

Last we left off, he had installed the new copper and base plumbing parts for our master bathroom shower renovation but it sure seemed there was a major problem.  I made him come back.  Lucky me.

This black plastic oval part is over 2" away from the studs.  Too far for cement board and tile.This time Mike was home so he watched Captain Monster while I watched the other monster.

P-trap the plumber shows up at 7 pm, smelling like booze no less, weirdly too friendly but I can feel the seethe oozing out of him.  Smelling like booze.

He had the audacity to make me wait for his arrival, booze first, and the ludicrous judgment to think drinks beforehand would be a magnificent idea.
Ah.  This will be fun.

We go upstairs, I hand him the manual, "see, this is what it shows, that?s how I want it to be, like the manual, the black part inside the wall, the wall goes around it.  I'm not building out the wall."

This is what the manual shows.  The black plastic ring set within the wall, not sticking out two-plus inches.He stands there flipping through the manual, back and forth, back and forth talking to himself in his native tongue, touching the valve mixer, looking, holds up a scrap piece of cement board, flips the manual, flip flip flip, cement board, mumble, has to go out to the van and get a screwdriver which takes ten minutes.

I text Mike who?s comfortably lounging on the deck ...