DIY’ers…you ever have one of those days?

@jack-dodds 

Thanks for your additional support and further suggestions. Unfortunately it has all now become rather academic because late yesterday evening, in a possibly premature display of confidence in the new toilet arrangements, Mrs Ogg and I ventured into our open-air facility together to indulge in a communal shower, whereupon the entire structure swiftly detached itself from the main building and in one dramatic - almost balletic - movement plunged into the back garden. Fortunately the dense undergrowth of brambles and shrubs prevented serious injury. Our back garden has always been a jungle but now it is a bog as well.

I don't think you colonials use the British term "bog" to refer to a toilet or loo. I think you say "restroom" or "powder room", although actually I don't think this is powder covering us from head to foot. Looks more like cement dust, or maybe old asbestos.

Anyway, it looks like we will have to revert to the old, boringly conventional indoor arrangement, but the thought did occur to me than when I eventually install the new toilet, maybe I could just unbolt the seat and cover from the bowl and re-attach them IN REVERSE ORDER to that shown in the original photo.

I know, you are rolling your eyes at such a stupid, amateurish notion, but I am desperate enough to try anything.

@graeme-ogg Sounds like you may not have used sufficient duct tape when attaching the shower structure or perhaps you bought the inferior grade (non-Canadian) product.  Always look for the Red Green endorsement on the package in the future.  Although your ambitious project seems a tad "bogged down" at present I'm sure it is salvageable, especially with the expert advice available within this Forum.  In the interim I would like to suggest using suitable shattered remnants of your collapsed first attempt to build a 2-seater outhouse; perhaps adjacent to your rose garden for obvious reasons.   Again, feel free to seek Forum assistance, we are here for you.

p.s.  The "reverse order" resolution you are considering seems overly simplistic and lacking the application of duct tape.  I'm trying to envision what the result may look like but nothing so far.....

So that's where the term "JACK of all trades" comes from.

Posted by: @bob-jackman

So that's where the term "JACK of all trades" comes from.

YES!  Thanks Bob....it's listed in the dictionary just after "Jackass."

And just before "jack off", in my dictionary.