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I'm always opening Pandora's Box - Twitchin Kitten - 05-17-2011
Today was supposed to be easy fixes around the house. Swap out the water spigot out back and make it more user friendly and hang my rail for my plants separating the living room and kitchen.
So, the water spigot turns into a major mess. The way they did it originally leaves about 4" of space to sweat pipe. Well, the Home Depot guy shows me this new system where it works like the old Chinese handcuffs. I buy what I need and get some plastic hose for the outside, boiler valve and a threaded end / handcuff for the valve. Should take me all of 30 minutes for this project.
Nope.
Pipe cutter is too big for the area and I couldn't fudge it. But after awkwardly using a hack saw blade and destroying my arm in the process, i get it close enough so I can twist it from the outside off.
You think that worked? nope. Outside they made a mess of things. The plastic pipe wouldn't fit through the hole and it took me 20 minutes of wrangling the copper out. I find the copper had quite a few twists in it too and I KNOW they were not from me twisting it off. I'm surprised it didn't leak.
I try to fit my stuff together and there just isn't enough room to get it all together and pull it closed/tight.
Going to have to hit Home Depot again and get another on/off valve (I'm nixing the boiler valve type for turning it off inside) and more fittings like elbows and stuff. I'm going to rework the whole thing so its not some kind of clusterfuck and easy to turn on and off for the winter.
So, onto another project until I can get parts - the plant hanger.
I cut my pieces of aluminum bar, drill out the holes. I did a good job too! everything is even and in line, something I manage to screw up often
Now for screws. Guess what we didn't buy? That's right, screws to bolt into the header.
So, that's project #2 half done.
Next?
RE: I'm always opening Pandora's Box - BarEdul - 05-18-2011
Lesson: LKTraz and I have learned... NEVER BUT NEVER say this is going to be easy.. say.. OH DAMN THIS IS GOING TO BE HARD... Plan 4 hours Extra buy PLENTY OF ALCOHOL...
Reason for alcohol...
1: if you do take 4 hours extra it soothes your rattled nerves when you forgot to buy the screws
2: If you did remember to buy the screws you have something to do with those extra four hours when you are done early! CHEERS!
Remember this plan Next time you pass the beer store on the way to home depot!
RE: I'm always opening Pandora's Box - Twitchin Kitten - 05-18-2011
No alcohol when working around here. Bad enough I got a room unfinished now for 18 months, and that was alcohol free working conditions. Drinking makes drunks, and drunks do sloppy work.
I knew it couldn't be as easy as I know it should be but now I have no water outside. I may just reroute the whole thing and make it even easier to work. I have a "dead end" pipe in the basement and I may just use that instead.
RE: I'm always opening Pandora's Box - Rhubarb - 05-18-2011
(05-18-2011, 04:46 AM)BarEdul Wrote: Lesson: LKTraz and I have learned... NEVER BUT NEVER say this is going to be easy.. say.. OH DAMN THIS IS GOING TO BE HARD... Plan 4 hours Extra buy PLENTY OF ALCOHOL...
Reason for alcohol...
1: if you do take 4 hours extra it soothes your rattled nerves when you forgot to buy the screws
2: If you did remember to buy the screws you have something to do with those extra four hours when you are done early! CHEERS!
Remember this plan Next time you pass the beer store on the way to home depot!
Change beer to read tea.Only British workman can't either fix it or finish anything without starting with a tea break and when the screws turn out to be too long (we got the screws) another tea break to vote who goes and gets the right size.
To be honest we spend so much time drinking the tea the job rarely gets finished for several days- usually when we have run out of tea.
RE: I'm always opening Pandora's Box - BarEdul - 05-18-2011
NOTE SEE RULE ONE DRINK AFTER YOU REALIZE YOU FORGOT THE SCREWS
NOTE SEE RULE TWO DRINK AFTER YOU ARE DONE>>>
NOTE see appendix a: Always remember drinking before your done can cost you appendage A.
RE: I'm always opening Pandora's Box - LH - 05-19-2011
And I was proud of myself turning a 1 hr job into an all day affair, yup.....changing out a toilet.
no fun....no-no.
RE: I'm always opening Pandora's Box - Twitchin Kitten - 05-19-2011
Oh that's just a shitty job LH
