How about THAT?
I turned into a plumber today. Just call me Luigi. First, I unclogged the bathroom sink. I knew it would be a series of escalating steps. So I tried the easiest one first, which is just letting the water run till it backs up, putting the plunger over the drain, and whaling away. That didn't do it. In fact, it was starting to act like it did the last time it backed up, which meant escalating two steps. I had planned on simply taking the stopper out and cleaning it off to see if that would change anything, but no. I had a feeling that'd just be so much wasted energy. So to the outbuilding to break out the plumbing snake and the channel locks.
I got the pipes off and in went the snake. Fortunately the clog wasn't that far down, and like...ewwwwww. I yanked out a wig's worth of hair, with plenty of brown sludge clinging to it. At that point, yeah. Rubber gloves to clean it off. I took everything out back, but not before the snake flung brown gunk onto the left shoulder of a plain white tshirt. Lovely! But...cleaning it off, ran it down again just to make sure, coming back with nothing. So! I reassembled everything, and ran both hot and cold full blast to see how it would drain. No problem, and no leaks! Clean up, put everything back, and done! Time spent, appox 1hr.
Next task, replace the laundry room faucet. The hot water part broke off. I had turned off the supply line at the wall for hot to prevent further leaks, but sometimes when the cold ran full blast a little would leak out from the break. Once again, I needed my good friend the channel locks to detach the supply line from the hot part side of the faucet. Wasn't too tight, and it shouldn't be to prevent cracks and stripping to brass threads. The cold water side was simply a plastic spin nut, so yay. Supply lines gone, mounting nuts gone, remove spray hose from center, and the old faucet is outta there.
I didn't quite follow the steps as listed, because I tightened the mounting nuts down on the faucet before hooking up the central spray hose. It was just a quick disconnect anyway. So put on the supply lines last. Then remove the aerator and run both sides full blast for a few seconds to clear out the pipes. All good, and no leaks once again! Yay! Put aerator back on, clean up, and we've got a brand spanking new laundry faucet, with working sprayer.
This second one's really satisfying, because it's been on my Kanban list for like oh, say a year and a half now? Funny how time flies. And the day's not even over yet! I think next I'm calling up CopyCats and see if they can make three 14 X 17 inch prints of a JPEG of Sutekh I made some time ago, preferably on fairly heavy paper, maybe even cardstock. Then I'd take the three prints straight to the framer down the street.
But first! Lunch.
I got the pipes off and in went the snake. Fortunately the clog wasn't that far down, and like...ewwwwww. I yanked out a wig's worth of hair, with plenty of brown sludge clinging to it. At that point, yeah. Rubber gloves to clean it off. I took everything out back, but not before the snake flung brown gunk onto the left shoulder of a plain white tshirt. Lovely! But...cleaning it off, ran it down again just to make sure, coming back with nothing. So! I reassembled everything, and ran both hot and cold full blast to see how it would drain. No problem, and no leaks! Clean up, put everything back, and done! Time spent, appox 1hr.
Next task, replace the laundry room faucet. The hot water part broke off. I had turned off the supply line at the wall for hot to prevent further leaks, but sometimes when the cold ran full blast a little would leak out from the break. Once again, I needed my good friend the channel locks to detach the supply line from the hot part side of the faucet. Wasn't too tight, and it shouldn't be to prevent cracks and stripping to brass threads. The cold water side was simply a plastic spin nut, so yay. Supply lines gone, mounting nuts gone, remove spray hose from center, and the old faucet is outta there.
I didn't quite follow the steps as listed, because I tightened the mounting nuts down on the faucet before hooking up the central spray hose. It was just a quick disconnect anyway. So put on the supply lines last. Then remove the aerator and run both sides full blast for a few seconds to clear out the pipes. All good, and no leaks once again! Yay! Put aerator back on, clean up, and we've got a brand spanking new laundry faucet, with working sprayer.
This second one's really satisfying, because it's been on my Kanban list for like oh, say a year and a half now? Funny how time flies. And the day's not even over yet! I think next I'm calling up CopyCats and see if they can make three 14 X 17 inch prints of a JPEG of Sutekh I made some time ago, preferably on fairly heavy paper, maybe even cardstock. Then I'd take the three prints straight to the framer down the street.
But first! Lunch.