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Sister Sue took the lead on chiseling out all the old tile and we hauled it out to the junk pile (unfortunately the building salvage places don’t take used tile because the dried thinset/mortar on the back makes it tricky to re-use.) The sink fixture dripped and there’s no real way to replace a 50 year old faucet, so, we got a new sink/cabinet/fixture. Nice toilets are insanely expensive. We shopped around and found a total piece of vanishing Americana in Circle Supply, a plumbing supply shop off the beaten path in Watertown; full of real characters who were very helpful. They mostly sell to the trade but were happy for our business and only sell the best, which in the case of toilets is apparently Toto (Japanese.) We got the low back model with the silent self-closing seat/lid; sharp, as far as toilets go.