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Comments (11)Leslie, Hooray for the rain! So, now y'all have had rain at least twice this year, right? Maybe it will be a much better rainfall year for y'all than 2011 was. Carol, We only had the really gusty wind for about an hour as the cold front rolled through. Before the cold front got here, it was around 65 degrees at our house, and in less than an hour we'd dropped to 46 degrees. I can tell you that the 65 with low wind felt great, and the 46 with some gusty wind doesn't feel nearly as nice! Those taters you planted should be happy about today's rain. Donna, If your potatoes blow out of the ground, I want to see photos of them flying through the air. We've only seen little sprinkles and a couple of brief showers so far, but I've looked at the radar and know more is coming. I was working in the garden transplanting voluneer chamomile plants from pathways to raised beds and it was perfect weather. I heard thunder and saw a flash of lightning and my perfect morning in the garden ended. We all need the rain, so I am not complaining. I hope everyone gets some rain today, and especially the parts of the state that are still in the various stages of drought. Dawn...See Morewhen it rains it pours? Interesting 1897 plumbing
Comments (8)Clarion - it is actually a different ceiling that had the plumbing problem! this one is a drywall replacement on the first floor... yes confusing to have TWO different ceiling issues I know UG! :) I think the reasons you mentioned above are exactly why we have to replace so much. His plan is to cut out the drain at some point and install a PVC splice, because the drain lines were installed nearly agains the flor, and very close to the joists we have to go back kinda far to give him the room to do that. We only really have access from below (the downstairs ceiling) as the bathroom floor has wood and then tile added, we would have to bust up perfectly good tile. I can already hear the plumbing from that drain and am not really offended. The room that can hear it is the downstairs bathroom... columbusguy1 - I feel pretty confident he actually needs to go back that far to do the work. He suggested we remove the ceiling ourselves and kept stopping by to check on it what would be needed before actually scheduling the work. We also brought up the idea of, if we are replacing these pipes should we move them, because long term the placement of them is not what we want, and he said that is going to be a lot more money... We will see on the noise, I will take noise over leaking though :)...See MoreWhen it rains it pours (litteraly) LONG
Comments (7)So sorry that all that is happening to you. Wow, great attitude. When life has throw dh and I punches somehow my dh will say some crazy far out statement that will get me to laughing and things don't seem so bad. Two that I can remember are - There is always a light at the end of the tunnel with a big gorilla holding a flashlight, and after every storm there is a silver lining-wait! That's a big bolt of lighting about to zap your arse! I don't know why but he will make up some darn awful statement like that and things won't seem so bad. Maybe it is just him and his attitude.(:-) Things will always get better...(:-)...See MoreWhen it rains...it pours (or not)
Comments (16)As per usual someone has disagreed with you and you spring to attack. > You've used a tautology. Duh. What truth could be more simple than one which is universally true -- by definition -- irrespective of preconditions or exceptions? Furthermore in your attack you demonstrated that you didn't even fully understand the contents of the post that you viewed as disagreeing with you. If the tradesperson was barely competent they may have recommended replacing both pump and pump motor, simply because that's all they know how to do. However even if the tradesperson were the absolute best anywhere, they still may make the same recommendation for various non-nefarious reasons, even if the pump and/or motor could have been repaired and reinstalled. Since they charge for their labor the cost for installing a 5 dollar part would still be significant, and even if the fix made them last for the remainder of their expected lifetime, they may well need replacing in as little as three years, plus the diagnosis work that might be necessary to determine that it is only requires a 5 dollar part may take enough hours of labor that the cost of removing the pump and motor, and diagnosing the problem, and ordering the 5 dollar part, and installing it, and reinstalling the repaired pump and motor might easily equal or exceed the cost of installing new units. Or as I said even if only one of the components were bad they may still recommend replacing both for the same reason of labor costs, or because of manufacturer warranty considerations. So irrespective of the tradesperson's skill level, or honesty level the recommendation might have been the same -- replace the pump and pump motor -- but even given that I still wouldn't be surprised to learn that one or both of them hadn't in fact really failed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Years ago we had a well issue where the pipe between the well and the house had started leaking, a simple fix (a backflow prevention valve in the house) worked well as a temporary fix for several years, but as time wore on it needed to be properly fixed. Rather than try to find the location of the leak, which was beneath the roots of a largish tree, and repair that one leak, the well people said given that there was one leak there might be more than one leak -- if not now then perhaps soon, and that the digging might damage or perhaps kill the tree. So based on their recommendation I had them install an entirely new pipe following a different route. After that work was finished the water worked, and everything was fine. Until the first rain when the water would come out of the faucet tinged orangey-red, the color of the local clay soil. I called and complained. they denied any responsibility, I countered that it had never occurred before, even in Hurricane Irene's 10 inches of rain, but now after the worked on the system it was occurring, regularly, therefore they must have been at fault. Grudgingly they agreed to return and investigate, and change the well head from the older cement-pit style to the newer capped PVC pipe wellhead, even though they didn't think that would be of any benefit. In that process they discovered that when the well was originally installed, the installers hadn't sealed the outside of the well casing, and consequentially surface water was seeping/pouring down the outside of the well casing, and entering/contaminating the well. So it turns out that their work installing the new pipe didn't cause the well-problem, it was merely that the disturbed soil caused the existing problem to be more noticeably evident. They "grouted" the well (AKA sealed the outside of the well casing) which was a significant material charge due to how much was needed and after that the orangy-red water problem never re-occurred....See More
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