My son the miracle worker!

  Believe it or not we have been without a fully functioning bathroom sink for about 2 years. It amazes me how long that time frame looks in print when it really didn't seem that long in actual time. Adult son renovated our old and tired bathroom while college age daughter and teen son and I were visiting family out of town two years ago. At that time we were having issues with the sink draining very slowly. Despite removing the pedestal sink from the room, replacing the drain pipes inside the sink and running a manual snake down the pipes inside the wall the drain continued to be so slow and eventually stopped draining entirely.
We moved tooth brushing operations to the kitchen sink and hand washing to the bath tub. On and off adult son has putzed around with the sink trying to get it to work. No luck. Son in law that used to work in plumbing tried and said he thought we'd have to tear out the kitchen ceiling to get to the section of pipe running from the sink. The ceiling already has issues from the bathroom renovation (replacing section of drain pipe from bathtub) and a leaking second story porch that adult son has since fixed. The holes remain and frankly I just didn't want more holes. Adult son has promised to totally remove and replace ceiling but there just hasn't been the time and the money all at the same time so far. Needing to get serious about this issue he has promised this ceiling will get replaced SOON.
In the meantime son had a few days off from work and according to him got bored. I wish he'd be bored more often. He has a buddy with an electric snake that he borrowed. He once again removed the pedestal sink from the bathroom to get to the pipes inside the wall and ran that snake. Funny thing happened, when the sink drained the water backed up in the bath tub. Hmmmm....Adult son then made use of the hole in the kitchen ceiling to remove a section of bath drain pipe and run that electric snake directly into that pipe and amazingly enough that seemed to do the trick. Both tub and sink now drain beautifully!!!!! According to son the problem was at the t-joint where both sets of drains came together.
Now that the sink was working once more son decided we needed to upgrade it a bit. It is the original 1929 bathroom sink that was put in when the house was built. The porcelain is in great shape for a sink so old ( few rust stains but overall not bad) but it had two separate faucets for hot and cold water. It also had a capped off center hole that we suspect once held a soap dispenser. Son took a trip to Home Depot, came home with a center faucet, a new drain cover  (the old drain cover was a simple rubber stopper), and two caps and got to work. The result:

 

All three of the kids and I agreed it is really awesome to once again be able to brush our teeth and wash our hands at a bathroom sink. Its the little things in life.