Ups and Downs
Oct. 12th, 2022 06:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
awanderingbardMy goodness, we have had an adventureful couple of weeks! First of all, happy belated Canadian Thanksgiving! We had my brother and his wife over for brunch on Saturday and it was very pleasant and delicious and it's still quite a treat to do things in person again.
We also got our tub fixed, finally, after nearly a year of filling it up with a hose running up from the basement. With COVID, it just wasn't a priority, especially considering the amount of work the plumber told us would have to be done. We consulted the New Bathroom people and it turned out the fix was way simpler than the first plumber told us, and the second plumber came and did it and for, like, four days we had a normal bathtub except for a dripping faucet. So my dad decided to replace the cartridge on the faucet and that was...not good. It was corroded into the socket and he broke his extractor tool getting it out, but he did manage to get it. Then he couldn't get the new one in and so we couldn't have any running water at all in the house. At all. We had to turn it off. So we called a third plumber who came and spent almost an hour just trying to get this cartridge in (a job that any person should be able to do in less than fifteen minutes). He had to pull all sorts of stuff out of the socket. And at one point he turned to me and said 'you know what would be really nice to have? One of those pliers with the bent ends like they have at hospitals'. And I said 'oh, you mean a needle driver? We have one of those' and went and got it, and indeed, that was the trick to fixing the situation. He got the new cartridge in and all was well. He departed.
Then we discovered there was water leaking into the basement. It turned out we had some corroded pipes hanging on by a thread and the plumber jostled them loose. So he returned (to his credit) and spent another three hours replacing our hot and cold water pipes. And he didn't, it appears, charge us for that extra three hours. I let him keep the needle driver.
So, let's hope that's all. This forty-year old house is falling apart and every repair job is a journey.
Also, after a little while of no BSODS, they've started up again, and I don't know why.
On the bright side, I saw my GP a couple of weeks ago and got some new medication to help with my health woes, so that's nice. I'm hoping they'll work.
Good vibes appreciated here, and sending good vibes outwards.
We also got our tub fixed, finally, after nearly a year of filling it up with a hose running up from the basement. With COVID, it just wasn't a priority, especially considering the amount of work the plumber told us would have to be done. We consulted the New Bathroom people and it turned out the fix was way simpler than the first plumber told us, and the second plumber came and did it and for, like, four days we had a normal bathtub except for a dripping faucet. So my dad decided to replace the cartridge on the faucet and that was...not good. It was corroded into the socket and he broke his extractor tool getting it out, but he did manage to get it. Then he couldn't get the new one in and so we couldn't have any running water at all in the house. At all. We had to turn it off. So we called a third plumber who came and spent almost an hour just trying to get this cartridge in (a job that any person should be able to do in less than fifteen minutes). He had to pull all sorts of stuff out of the socket. And at one point he turned to me and said 'you know what would be really nice to have? One of those pliers with the bent ends like they have at hospitals'. And I said 'oh, you mean a needle driver? We have one of those' and went and got it, and indeed, that was the trick to fixing the situation. He got the new cartridge in and all was well. He departed.
Then we discovered there was water leaking into the basement. It turned out we had some corroded pipes hanging on by a thread and the plumber jostled them loose. So he returned (to his credit) and spent another three hours replacing our hot and cold water pipes. And he didn't, it appears, charge us for that extra three hours. I let him keep the needle driver.
So, let's hope that's all. This forty-year old house is falling apart and every repair job is a journey.
Also, after a little while of no BSODS, they've started up again, and I don't know why.
On the bright side, I saw my GP a couple of weeks ago and got some new medication to help with my health woes, so that's nice. I'm hoping they'll work.
Good vibes appreciated here, and sending good vibes outwards.
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Date: 2022-10-16 07:37 pm (UTC)The bathroom saga is almost unbelievable, except that I've had enough experiences as a homeowner to go "of course" after each new bit. I should make a post on our bathroom problems, except that I keep hoping they'll be resolved! They're much less serious than yours. Except that our daughter often can't get hot water in her shower, but then again, she's hardly ever here—and she has turned down offers of using our shower, which gets hot water [except in cold weather] but has low water pressure.
I certainly hope this is an end to your plumbing woes! I wouldn't think a forty-year-old house should be in that bad shape!
And I'm glad you could all get together.