Re: OT..(slightly) ... home repairs

Chris Marksberry wrote:


Kudos to Dave,
TY :-)


Years ago my husband replaced something in one of our upstairs toilets and didn't get something tight enough. I fell asleep that night on the couch watching TV. In the middle of the night my husband heard water running and wondered why I was taking a shower. I wasn't! He discovered our bathroom flooded and walked downstairs (squish, squish, squish through the wet carpet). His plumbing job did a lot of damage. To this day we tell people who would like new carpet to use my husband's plumbing services <g>. Homeowner's Insurance does cover ineptness.

The toilet was two weeks ago. That was another saga. Years ago we remodelled the bathroom and my wife selected Harvest Gold for the sink, tub and toilet and we picked out appropriate tiles. I did that job myself. While working on the taps I discovered the reason there was so little water pressure form the taps. The pipes were packed with nails. We got them out and now the water runs faster. The tub was a big job but my father helped and he was pretty handy with stuff like that.


We had had increasing problems with th toilet flushing properly, Thanks to our hard, sandy well water the innards were clogged up. You can't get Harvest Gold any more. Without going to a lot of effort and a hell of a lot of expense, you can't get anything but white or bone, and bone runs about three times the price of white. Once again, I had to take my wife around to all the local suppliers to convince her that it was white or bone, and that bone didn't match any better than white so there was no point in paying all that extra for bone and still have unmatched fixtures. I went ahead and bought white, a water saving unit that was well rated and on sale. I took it out of the box and left it sitting in the spare bedroom for her to get used to the white, long enough that she just wanted it installed.

Last week my neighbour was rained out of his stone work job and asked if I needed help with the toilet. I had been afraid to ge started on it in case I ran into problems. The hold town bolts were very, very rusty. They were so rusty they snapped off with just a slight turn and we were able to remove the old toilet in a matter of minutes. The biggest part of the job was cleaning up the old wax seal and crud around the base. He put the new one together while I did the cleanup.
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