LEAKS AND MORE FLIGHTS
We've been having trouble with the faucet on the shower in the house for some time now. With some creative manoevering the thing would turn off and on just fine. While I was in Kenya however the inevitable happend and the shower faucet just kept leaking.
My first task at home after beign gone for 2 weeks in a foreign country, with a crazy schedule and after a 20hr flight home was to help liz fix the faucet. We thought this would be fairly stragithtforward.
Buy new faucet set, peel back the wall, remove the old one and replace it. It was not to be. The old was apparently was VERY OLD and is saudered to the water pipes so we couldn't remove it. All that was Monday.
Tuesday we went to home depot with the offending unit and asked if they could just replace it so we could keep the existing faucet but with a new knob of similar design. It was too old and they had nothing that would fit or replace the offending unit. After creatign a makeshift solution with existing parts we went home to try it. No dice, it leaked worse than before.
Back to home depot to get an allan key so we could replace the new makeshift parts with the original parts. We did this. it still leaked worse.
We called Mr. Rooter to come on Wednesday. They cancelled. We were pissed. The faucet continued to leak. Liz called another guy, he said he'd be there on thursday morning. We went out to see a play and supper with friends.
Today: The guy showed up. He could not fix the faucet... it was too old. He was however able to replace the old unit with the new one we had bought on monday. The total cost should be somewhere around $500. Tonigth we have to go and replace the dry wall the plumber guy had to tear out to replace the unit (and because tby this point there was leakage and the wall would have gotten mouldy if we just re caulked the showerwall to the board.
This sucks. Granted I half expected the electrical to go, or the washer and dryer outlets to be attached to nothing causing flooding long before this happened (due to my mistrust of the guy who sold us the house). So given what I thought 'could' have happened this really isn't so bad. I just hope it is not an omen of more things to come!
So I just hope we can get all of this repaired as I'm flying to Germany on Saturday. Fun times. One good thing is that I get to see my friend Hazim in london. I'm staying in London sunday night.
Cheers,
P
We've been having trouble with the faucet on the shower in the house for some time now. With some creative manoevering the thing would turn off and on just fine. While I was in Kenya however the inevitable happend and the shower faucet just kept leaking.
My first task at home after beign gone for 2 weeks in a foreign country, with a crazy schedule and after a 20hr flight home was to help liz fix the faucet. We thought this would be fairly stragithtforward.
Buy new faucet set, peel back the wall, remove the old one and replace it. It was not to be. The old was apparently was VERY OLD and is saudered to the water pipes so we couldn't remove it. All that was Monday.
Tuesday we went to home depot with the offending unit and asked if they could just replace it so we could keep the existing faucet but with a new knob of similar design. It was too old and they had nothing that would fit or replace the offending unit. After creatign a makeshift solution with existing parts we went home to try it. No dice, it leaked worse than before.
Back to home depot to get an allan key so we could replace the new makeshift parts with the original parts. We did this. it still leaked worse.
We called Mr. Rooter to come on Wednesday. They cancelled. We were pissed. The faucet continued to leak. Liz called another guy, he said he'd be there on thursday morning. We went out to see a play and supper with friends.
Today: The guy showed up. He could not fix the faucet... it was too old. He was however able to replace the old unit with the new one we had bought on monday. The total cost should be somewhere around $500. Tonigth we have to go and replace the dry wall the plumber guy had to tear out to replace the unit (and because tby this point there was leakage and the wall would have gotten mouldy if we just re caulked the showerwall to the board.
This sucks. Granted I half expected the electrical to go, or the washer and dryer outlets to be attached to nothing causing flooding long before this happened (due to my mistrust of the guy who sold us the house). So given what I thought 'could' have happened this really isn't so bad. I just hope it is not an omen of more things to come!
So I just hope we can get all of this repaired as I'm flying to Germany on Saturday. Fun times. One good thing is that I get to see my friend Hazim in london. I'm staying in London sunday night.
Cheers,
P
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