The Good, the Bad (World Turns)
Oct. 30th, 2007 11:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jheti
I was up for 21 hours yesterday. This is getting to be a habit. I remember being a little kid and thinking it would be so awesome to stay up late every night like grown-ups. HAH.
Our good friend *Seth knows how to hang drywall and lots of house shit like that. And he's really good at it too. So we called him a few weeks ago about our mysterious bath-tub leak.
(Until now, our procedure for dealing with mysterious bath-tub leak has been to simply not use the bath-tub. Sharing a tiny "master bath" WITH YOUR PARENTS gets really, really, really annoying after just over two years. I mean. I'm not an "OMG I NEED MY OWN LUXURIES" spoiled-brat kind of person, but come the fuck on. I'd just like to take a shower in my own space. Which we've already paid for. That's what a 1 and 1/2 bath home is FOR, so you can USE the extra bathroom. Uh, anyway.)
It's fine until you fill it to the overflow-release thing (that metal-plated hole in the front of the tub that acts like a secondary drain). Then it goes batshit and leaks EVERYWHERE. Bathroom, hallway, living room, the works.
*Seth cut a sixteen inch high x ten inch wide (maybe eight? Guessing the width) hole in the living room wall, pulled it aside, and had us fill the bathtub and go stand in it.
BOOM. Massive spraying as soon as the water hits the overflow thing. He showed us why.
There's no seal on the pipe. My hand to god. There was like, a quarter-inch of cheap caulking barely holding the overflow plate against the tub from the back, and NO SEAL.
I've had my tetanus shot. Right now, as it stands, I could stick my fingers in the prefab hole cut in the tub itself for the overflow thing and WIGGLE MY FINGERS quite comfortably in the giant gap between it and the PVC drain pipe.
It's peeled back even further from the wall since *Seth and Stepdad left to go buy a proper sealy thing and whatever other "guy stuff" they need for it.
It's cool, 'cause you can turn the light on and off in the bathroom, and SEE the light from the living room pouring in in a crescent shape through the opening. ^_^
I once researched Roman plumbing/"ancient" plumbing in general for an original project that never went anywhere and died two hard drives ago, so I could sorta follow what they were talking about. Especially when he got to how copper pipes expire; he looked surprised when I was all "Yeah, no, that makes total sense."
I have an interest in old plumbing. I'm not sure why. It's just cool. How water got into our homes--er, because we wanted it to!--through the ages. I dunno.
Irrigation is boring. That's just for growing quadro-wheat-stuff. (LolTrek reference! I win all the Sad Points for the day. XD) Plumbing is awesome.
Old plumbing, old elevators, and the Gibson girls. Are my pet unique history things.
Anyway, yah, now we know what the problem was, and it's way, way, WAY cheaper to fix than burst pipes.
RELIEF. And also happiness.
Our good friend *Seth knows how to hang drywall and lots of house shit like that. And he's really good at it too. So we called him a few weeks ago about our mysterious bath-tub leak.
(Until now, our procedure for dealing with mysterious bath-tub leak has been to simply not use the bath-tub. Sharing a tiny "master bath" WITH YOUR PARENTS gets really, really, really annoying after just over two years. I mean. I'm not an "OMG I NEED MY OWN LUXURIES" spoiled-brat kind of person, but come the fuck on. I'd just like to take a shower in my own space. Which we've already paid for. That's what a 1 and 1/2 bath home is FOR, so you can USE the extra bathroom. Uh, anyway.)
It's fine until you fill it to the overflow-release thing (that metal-plated hole in the front of the tub that acts like a secondary drain). Then it goes batshit and leaks EVERYWHERE. Bathroom, hallway, living room, the works.
*Seth cut a sixteen inch high x ten inch wide (maybe eight? Guessing the width) hole in the living room wall, pulled it aside, and had us fill the bathtub and go stand in it.
BOOM. Massive spraying as soon as the water hits the overflow thing. He showed us why.
There's no seal on the pipe. My hand to god. There was like, a quarter-inch of cheap caulking barely holding the overflow plate against the tub from the back, and NO SEAL.
I've had my tetanus shot. Right now, as it stands, I could stick my fingers in the prefab hole cut in the tub itself for the overflow thing and WIGGLE MY FINGERS quite comfortably in the giant gap between it and the PVC drain pipe.
It's peeled back even further from the wall since *Seth and Stepdad left to go buy a proper sealy thing and whatever other "guy stuff" they need for it.
It's cool, 'cause you can turn the light on and off in the bathroom, and SEE the light from the living room pouring in in a crescent shape through the opening. ^_^
I once researched Roman plumbing/"ancient" plumbing in general for an original project that never went anywhere and died two hard drives ago, so I could sorta follow what they were talking about. Especially when he got to how copper pipes expire; he looked surprised when I was all "Yeah, no, that makes total sense."
I have an interest in old plumbing. I'm not sure why. It's just cool. How water got into our homes--er, because we wanted it to!--through the ages. I dunno.
Irrigation is boring. That's just for growing quadro-wheat-stuff. (LolTrek reference! I win all the Sad Points for the day. XD) Plumbing is awesome.
Old plumbing, old elevators, and the Gibson girls. Are my pet unique history things.
Anyway, yah, now we know what the problem was, and it's way, way, WAY cheaper to fix than burst pipes.
RELIEF. And also happiness.
