The We Will Miss You, Chohole Complaint Thread
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Old houses stay in shape for ever, unless you start upgrading them -> Running water means, you are running while carrying buckets of water
To be honest, I started installing running water some 15+ years ago to my 80 year old house, but at the same time they came up with legislation that would have required me to build a waste treatment system big enough to handle normative wastes for minimum 5 people, with the norms being set according to what is used in cities...
All I wanted was to get water for my coffee and for washing my meager dishes as my 'bathroom' is the sauna across the yard and the 'throne' is in a cabin I built for firewood, so I decided that instead of 'investing' 10+ thousand euros on a commercial system that wouldn't even work on what I produced, carrying water wasn't that bad after all.
Right about now I wouldn't mind a outhouse and a hand pump I'd figure out some way to get the water in the house ...... but it's fix it or move , can't afford to move on the plus side the repairs I'm having done I hope will increase the value if/when it is sold
I feel dizzy. I also got a headache.
Is it really time to sleep again?
Thankyou @frank0314 for your generous PC for a day offer (Link)!!
Complaint: Arghhh... water problems. No, not me. My kitchen. I had a 2.5 gallon plastic jug of water bought specifically for emergency use after the last long power outage. (yeah, it's like closing the barn door after the horse escapes
) Two days ago I moved that jug of water and set it back down again on the oriental rug in my food pantry (yes, I have an oriental rug in my pantry, in my bathroom, on tables, on stair landings, under my feet at my computer desk, hanging on stair ballustrades, hanging on the wall, and even in front of my kitchen sink too as well as all the normal places that rugs are found. I even use a 120 year old rug as a draft-stop under my front door.
I've told you that I have many types of collections. It's a disease.
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So, back to the complaint. The process of moving that plastic jug caused it to crack and ever so slowly, water leaked out for over 24 hours until yesterday when I stepped into the pantry with my bare feet and felt the carpet squish and water lap over my toes. Now, as far as I know, carpets are not supposed to squish so I immediately assumed something was wrong.
No problem, just take the rug (4' x 4') outside and let it dry in the sunny, warm, Fall day, right? Wrong! The rug is sat upon by my pantry shelving unit and I can't move it or the rug without unloading everything off the shelves. Oy!
Oh, and also, my pantry also stores some of my cardboard boxes full of undisplayed collections of various things and the boxes of course were wet on the bottom and dampness was seeping into the packing material.
Thankfully the collections in the boxes are not dissolvable and will survive, but I'll have to dry out and repack the boxes or get new ones.
Also thankfully, there was only about 1 or 2 cups of water that leaked from the jug, Not really much, but enough to soak the rug and box bottoms.
The solution: Unable to move the rug I stuck an empty champagne bottle under it to raise part of it off the floor and I set a fan to blow on it all night. This morning it's almost dry. Yay!
Now, all I have to do is repack my collection of Gryphons and the box containing my complete collection of the entire Myst series of games & books. None of the books got wet, and the bottom CDs were in plastic cases.
Is there a way to make stuffing in the microwave?
Yes. Google microwave stuffing. Here is one of the results: https://www.food.com/recipe/microwave-stuffing-112722
Ohhh not to jinx you or any thing but I hope your Pantry is solid ,and not partical board wrapped in a plastic laminate .... I've had those swell and crumble before .glad you caught the leak . Me now I'm happy the plumbers fixed all the issues and I have water again ,hurray!! Oh and I'd love to have fancy carpets ,but I'd have to put them on the walls so they wouldn't be a tripping hazard .I roll around alot on office chairs ....
I took a nap. I forgot how to put it back!
...wow that's nice, into the cart it went. Finally some nice userful items instead of a lot of old stuff in the PC + for a Day sale. Been loading up the cart today.
...used to have that happen in my old flat (of 2 moves ago) in the main area when there was heavy rain Instead of a squishy carpet, I'd step out of the bedroom and find myself standing barefoot in a large puddle of cold water on the floor.. As this was originally a cellar, the floor sloped towards a midpoint in that part of the flat where over where the original floor drain would be (the threshold under the door to the outside had deteriorated and that's how water would get inside).
Needless to say the shock immediately woke me up about as quick as if I had downed a quad shot americano.
There is your pump? In a basement trap? It leaking is probably why your not maintaining pressure. It should be somewhere between 45-80 psi. They are really easy to replace. Only about a half hour to an hour job and you don't need to be experienced to change it. A plumber will gladly take that job in a lot of cases because it is not time consuming. If your smart you will do some research to see which pump you want to get and get a general price for them and see that the plumber will charge for it. Now if its in a tight spot or under a crawl space it becomes quite a bit more complicated and may need to get a plumber. If your son will do it your all set and just need to buy a new pump, dinner and beer (if a drinker), lol
I know a lot of cities were forced to have the water dept come out and change all the pipes at the road and leading to the house and getting ride of the cast iron because people were getting sick from it and there had been too many lawsuits. In my area all the pipes are either, PVC, CPVC, Copper, or Galvanized steel. It's part of building code now. From the road they typically use Schedule 40 PVC. I know when I did plumbing and general construction and remodeling for a living, I always used PVC and CPVC in combination when the plumbing was indoors. If it needed to be more rugged then I used copper, but we primarily just used the PVC. It 20 x faster to lay than copper is and you have a little more play to work with. IMO the only real advantage to copper piping is it is bendable to a degree and if you mess up or need to make a repair you just heat up the join and melt the solder and pull it off. Copper piping rarely has blowouts. It's almost always at a connection. If you mess up with PVC you have to redo it, but PVC is more cost friendly. You just need to cut out the bad portion and build up a new section. We are lucky, we have pretty good water without a lot of harmful stuff in it. The only thing we do have is a minute amount of lead in it but they treat the water to remove almost all of it.
Actually the pump is in a little pump house about 20 feet from my back door , the leaks were in the crawl space under the house and the pipe that burst was old cast iron from the look of it ,they came out today and figured out the problem real quickly ,it's been a sort of comedy of errors , they had disconnected the pressure tanks ,and hadn't hooked them back up ,once they figured that out it was all good .I'm on a well ,and this property was once the main homestead of the area then the property got broke up and sold off ,the son of the original family lived across the street with his wife,until he passed last year ,she still lives there.When they dug the ditch to put in the new main line they cut through a bunch of PVC lines which I'm gonna guess had been hooked up to irragation at one point ,but not any more .the pressure was jumping from 65 to 120 and then would cut off
...think I may have found a suitable model for the Stately Grande Manor. With a little kitbashing (mainly the surrounding grounds) it would be close to perfect.
The rub, it costs 139$, and it's only available in formats that don't directly import into Daz.
That is a big bummer!
Holy cow, if the pressure was jumping to 120, no wonder the pipe burst. That's way to high. Cast iron pipes cause all kinds of problems. They rust so easly and produce brown water poluted with all kinds of stuff. In most of those old systems all the connections are held together by lead which leaches into the water. Thats why it's become mandatory in most areas to replace them. At least it's been fix so you can get on with it.
I want to rest but a housemate is causing too much trouble in the home.
Well this week and the whole plumbing issue has been a Comedy of Unintentional errors ,last night I went to wash dishes and had no hot water .....WTH?!! so I messaged the company then pouted ,then laughed cause it seemed like everything that could go wrong,was going wrong. Then while in the bathroom on the throne of Contemplation ,I decided to try the sink hot water faucet ,and ....HOT WATER!! came out so I checked the shower , HOT WATER Hurray I can shower!! so I went back to the kitchen and tried the hot water ...... hmmmm no hot water ,so I turned the handle to the right which is normally cold water ..... HOT WATER!!!!!! Alrighty , so I messaged the company again and told them what had happened and since I had hot water this was not a priority but I would like a tech out to put it right .They called me back this morning and someone will be back out on monday .Okay that's good ,so I decided to do a load of laundry ,.......and for some reason it took an hour to fill the cold water is a bare trickle ,now it's an old washer but the last time I used it it behaved normal ,so I'm wondering if something got in the line fom te change over .....and I feel like I'm being a pain in the ass for wondering if it was associated with the whole plumbing issue ,but I think I'm still gonna mention it when the tech comes ....
On the plus side I had more men in my bedroom then I've ever had before this week ,young, skinny , with jobs ,.......only problem was they were only in there cause that's where the Breaker box is ,damn it
This is most likely caused by clogged hose filter which is a pretty simple inexpensive fix. Shut the supply off and remove the hose from the back of the washing machine; then replace the cone hose filter. New filters are usually available at most hardware stores for a couple of dollars.
Man, you are having the worst luck. I swear we're related. As far as the washer goes it is probably exactly what you suspect. Whenever you crack open a line some debris settles and travels through the lines and will case clogs or partial clogs. More than likely you just have some debris in the filter where the hot and cold lines connect to the back of the washer. It's very, very common in the circumstances you've experienced over the last few days. I'd suggest going around to each tap in your house and take off the aerator and run the water for 5-10 seconds to clear out any debris that might still be in the lines and clean out the filter in the aerators.
You guys are great ,wish I was able to take advantage of your suggestions , the plumbers did take the airator screen off in the kitchen and the bathroom ,I'm not able to move the washer to get back to the lines because of my back ,but the plumber is coming back on monday to switch the sink lines so I will mention it to him ,and I think I am gonna sign up for their maintenance package ,to have somebody on call for these issue ,of course that will mean I won't need them until I drop the maintenance package ,ya know Murphy's law .Actually Frank ,I don't think this is the worst luck ,it's just a case of "sheet happens" so it has been a bit aggravating but not tragic which is a good thing. On the plus side all the stuff under the kitchen sink got pulled out ,so now I can clean under there rearrange and organize it better ,so there is a bright side to this
Complaint! I don't have enough storage on my iPad for everything. All okay but the storage section in settings is taking forever to show what is taking up space!
Non-complaint: Wheee... a big mini-adventure. Attended a small family reunion lunch today with my brother & his wife. Small journey, about 50 miles away. Only nine of us in total at the lunch but that's about all that's left of the "cousins" of my generation in that branch of the family. It was just a lunch at a restaurant, supposedly well recommended, but I wasn't impressed. It was crowded, noisy, echoey, loud to the point of needing to shout while talking to the person next to you. My filet was tough, the carrot cake was dry and its icing could have been used as a ceramic tile. The meat was edible with effort so I took most of it home and will stuggle with it there. But the carrot cake got complained about and deducted from the bill (no I didn't eat any of it except my trial bites). However, the reunion atmosphere was good enough when we could hear ourselves talk. Hadn't seen some of those people in 20 years.
Then afterwards, we continued our journey to a big cheese shop in Cuba, NY. I stocked up on several wedges of a couple types of Danish bleu cheese, as well as some Stilton & Gorgonzola too. Mmm... bleu cheeses.
I'd like to say that I now have my winter's supply of cheese but it will probably be gone before we get too far into next month.
I can't find where I put my glasses last night!
No word yet about Mistiara?
Have you checked on your forehead? It's a common place to lose them I hear.
Doesn't seem like it :'(
I feel awful and I don't know what to do about it.