A couple of days ago, I noticed that it was taking a really long time for hot water to get to the bathroom sink. Then we noticed that most of the hot water had suddenly disappeared from the kitchen. Being the intrepid house explorers that we are, we went down to the mechanical room (where [...]
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Out with the old. No, Really. Out with the old.
Posted in Current Affairs, Hoopla & Hullabaloo, I Need a Nap, Plumbing on December 29, 2011 |
How to Unclog a Soaker Hose
Posted in Garden, Maintenance, Plumbing on June 27, 2011 |
The automatic sprinkler system doesn’t reach around to the front yard, so the front beds have two or three soaker hoses running through them, and they’re now on an automatic timer. That should have taken care of all the watering in the front, except I noticed that in some spots, the water doesn’t spread – [...]
Surprise #2
Posted in Art, Plumbing, Television on January 26, 2011 |
The second surprise I found when I was working in the Yoda Room was behind a blue shelf that was screwed to the wall. The shelf is homemade – a horizontal piece of wood supported by a cross piece below it and then attached to a back piece, with the back piece screwed into the [...]
Sinks
Posted in Bathroom, Maintenance, Plumbing, Tips on November 29, 2010 |
One night last week, I remembered that I’d been meaning to look at the slow-draining sink in the bathroom upstairs. I got together the baking soda and vinegar (1/2 cup of each) and sent a kettle of boiling water after all the fizz. Funny, it didn’t work. So I tried it again. Still slow-draining and [...]
Before & After: Upper Pond
Posted in Before & After, Garden, Plumbing on October 1, 2010 |
Given that we hadn’t really touched Upper Pond since moving into 963, it was a mess – too, too full of lily pads and algae. I don’t have a good Before photo of it, so you’ll have to imagine a bit of a swamp. On a wonderfully warm fall day, the Other One climbed into [...]
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Raspberries: Part 1
Posted in Current Affairs, Plumbing, The Inexplicable on September 13, 2010 |
One weekend, two senior worker-bees came to visit 963, bringing twenty barbless raspberry canes with them as a gift from their yard. After the canes sat for two days in a black garbage bag on the patio, the time came to plant them in the garden. All the worker bees got changed into their gardening [...]
Last weekend, mom and I also toddled off to the hardware store to finally pick up some washers for the drippy tub tap downstairs. When I took the washer off, I brought the stem piece along too to make sure the new washer was going to be the right size. When I looked at the [...]
Fixing a Leaky Tub Faucet
Posted in Bathroom, Plumbing, Tips on February 8, 2010 | 3 Comments »
As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, we had a fast and furious drip going downstairs from the tub faucet. Last Sunday I spent the afternoon trying to solve some basic plumbing problems. Everything is a learning curve when you're first figuring things out, but once you've taken something apart once and know what [...]
The title of this post suggests that I know this how-to, but what it REALLY means is that I'm going to work through all of the suggestions other people have for this sort of thing. And since the beginning of this week was spent with tub plumbing, I might as well just move over to [...]
Renovations are puzzles. Sometimes you open something up, thinking you know what's wrong, and it turns out you have no idea what's going on. That's what's happening with our hot water adventure in the main bathroom. We thought a scald guard feature might be set wrong inside the tub faucet, but after taking it apart, [...]
