How I spent my New Year's Eve
It was New Years Eve's and myself, Bug, and my parents are getting ready to go out and run a few errands before the big night.
Mom gets the idea to clean out the fridge before we run errands. (like she needs to add more chores to her never-ending list) She keeps asking us which things need to be thrown out, and I keep telling her anything she finds is fair game because I am so tired of the leftovers. Next thing I know, she starts the garbage disposal up and starts putting everything from the past couple of weeks down it. The next thing I heard is her yelling for me to come help. I run into the kitchen and see water pouring across the floor, so I yell for Bug to come up and help me mop it up, while I run and grab towels to dry it.
The pipe under the sink had broken and spewed shredded chicken, rice noodles, and water, (a lot of it) all over the kitchen floor. The pipe had been leaking for a little while. It was the last original pieces of pipe from when the house was built, making it over 50 years old. While were we trying to get the water out from underneath the sink the pipes finally fell off. There was a huge hole (about 1x2 inches) in the underside of the trap. No wonder it was leaking.
Off to the Home Depot we went with the broken pieces in hand, to find some replacement parts of the PVC variety, that we could replicate the old setup. Dad started by looking at the thicker walled PVC, but was directed by a wonderful employee to the more appropriate thinner walled pipe.
Then, on the boxed up toilets across the aisle, Bug and Dad carefully reconstructed the pipes to show him what we wanted to create. Bug thought it was like creating a sculpture. The employee was very nice and helped us get all the pieces that we needed.
Back to Toad Hall we went with the new and old piping, to try to fix the sink. Again on the kitchen floor the old rusty pipes were laid out, and Dad and Bug started the careful reconstruction with the new PVC pipe. All the while, Mom and I were trying to get dinner fixed, stepping over around, and sometimes on our two "plumbers" laying in the middle of the kitchen floor.
After about 4 hours of measuring and cutting and measuring some more and cutting again, they finally got down to putting the trap in, but ran into problems when the parts of the trap would not join up with the pipe running down through the floor. Dad and Bug quit for the night and would have to run back to Home Depot in the morning.
Finally after 2 trips to Home Depot and many hours of labor the sink is fixed. I am glad that I don't have to do the dishes in the bathroom sink anymore. What a challenging New Year's it was for us. I hope this doesn't mean that we'll be fixing things throughout 2007. I don't have enough stamina for all that.
How was your New Year?
Mom gets the idea to clean out the fridge before we run errands. (like she needs to add more chores to her never-ending list) She keeps asking us which things need to be thrown out, and I keep telling her anything she finds is fair game because I am so tired of the leftovers. Next thing I know, she starts the garbage disposal up and starts putting everything from the past couple of weeks down it. The next thing I heard is her yelling for me to come help. I run into the kitchen and see water pouring across the floor, so I yell for Bug to come up and help me mop it up, while I run and grab towels to dry it.
The pipe under the sink had broken and spewed shredded chicken, rice noodles, and water, (a lot of it) all over the kitchen floor. The pipe had been leaking for a little while. It was the last original pieces of pipe from when the house was built, making it over 50 years old. While were we trying to get the water out from underneath the sink the pipes finally fell off. There was a huge hole (about 1x2 inches) in the underside of the trap. No wonder it was leaking.
Off to the Home Depot we went with the broken pieces in hand, to find some replacement parts of the PVC variety, that we could replicate the old setup. Dad started by looking at the thicker walled PVC, but was directed by a wonderful employee to the more appropriate thinner walled pipe.
Then, on the boxed up toilets across the aisle, Bug and Dad carefully reconstructed the pipes to show him what we wanted to create. Bug thought it was like creating a sculpture. The employee was very nice and helped us get all the pieces that we needed.
Back to Toad Hall we went with the new and old piping, to try to fix the sink. Again on the kitchen floor the old rusty pipes were laid out, and Dad and Bug started the careful reconstruction with the new PVC pipe. All the while, Mom and I were trying to get dinner fixed, stepping over around, and sometimes on our two "plumbers" laying in the middle of the kitchen floor.
After about 4 hours of measuring and cutting and measuring some more and cutting again, they finally got down to putting the trap in, but ran into problems when the parts of the trap would not join up with the pipe running down through the floor. Dad and Bug quit for the night and would have to run back to Home Depot in the morning.
Finally after 2 trips to Home Depot and many hours of labor the sink is fixed. I am glad that I don't have to do the dishes in the bathroom sink anymore. What a challenging New Year's it was for us. I hope this doesn't mean that we'll be fixing things throughout 2007. I don't have enough stamina for all that.
How was your New Year?
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