Plumbing Nightmare

[Diary of a Mad-man]

My upstairs shower was leaking 3 days ago. Now I am digging trenches in my neighbors yard. That basicly sums up the story.

Here is the cliff notes version:

-Shower leaking steady stream of water

-Couldnt locate outside water shut off for long time

-Took shower apart

-Spent whole day removing 25 year old shower cartdridge while trying
not to break cooper pipe. 3 trips to hardware store for pullers and parts.

-turned water back on outside, water starts pouring everywhere. Had to shut off water for a day. When open, main valve leaks

- I learned that a bonnet could be tightened on the gate valve, so I do so, stopping the gushing water from leaking out of the top

- I re-open the water valve, spinning, spinning, spinning, spinning. "hey, did it take 10000 r*********s last time?". Stem broke in the gate valve with my water half turned on.

- RED HERRING. Dont know if this is related, but toilet downstairs wont stop running. Pulling the toilet valve open does not stop water, so I shut off that toilet. This happened within the same hours of all this other bullshit.

- dig around main valve outside to find oak tree roots 5 inches in diameter fighting with the pipe and going under my slab. Sawzall time.

- I live in a condo. I find a box that shuts off whole building. The shut off valve is not where it is supposed to be. It is 3 ft deep and at the edge of the concrete casing that holds the heavy lid that covers it all. The Valve inside is frozen and I just called the water company to come open it for me. This meter box is 2 ft away from my neighbors front door.

-I have pissed in my sink 1000 times b/c it takes a toilet 1 hour to fill at this rate of flow.

- Take a nice shower after all this digging to find I put the valve in wrong. Hot is cold. Cold is hot.



TO BE CONTINUED............???????????????

[jsinur7]

holy crap... what a way to spend a holiday... remindsme when a main line pipe broke under my house... but besides that before we found that after having to jack hammer up the basement floor, thinking the drain was just clogged and not the whole thing, also not knowing much about plumbing i decided to use a wet vac in reverse to blow out the clog since suction wasnt working... long story short, i say wow, that did it, cause the vaccuum was blowing away no prob.. must be cleared... meanwhile while i'm patting myselfon the back there is sh!t flying up and out of every other drain in the house... and i mean literally sh!t... I'll spare you the rest of the details... good luck man...

[DSM4Life]

[IronReload04]

hope it all works out for you there.

[Skully44420]

man i hate plumbing...good luck

[Diary of a Mad-man]

LOL, damn! Well, since I havent seen a single turd yet, I will call this a success. Way to keep me motivated.

The city guy came out to open the valve and was mysteriously acting like a total asshole for no reason. He had a pissed off look on his face and asked me why I didnt call it in earlier. Any reply to any of his questions resulted in shoulder shrugging and throwing his hands in the air. I should have reminded him that he is a city employee (time and a half on 4th of july) and that maybe I too was accustomed to running water like many others. Guess you had to be there. Rude dick head. Gave me a lot of shit over nothing, interrogating my every move.

Gee, Im such an asshole since I invented the copper gate valve and designed it to rust away in 3 years.

Its ok, when he wasnt looking, I eye dominated him (lol, I love saying that).

[jsinur7]

LOL, damn! Well, since I havent seen a single turd yet, I will call this a success. Way to keep me motivated.

The city guy came out to open the valve and was mysteriously acting like a total asshole for no reason. He had a pissed off look on his face and asked me why I didnt call it in earlier. Any reply to any of his questions resulted in shoulder shrugging and throwing his hands in the air. I should have reminded him that he is a city employee (time and a half on 4th of july) and that maybe I too was accustomed to running water like many others. Guess you had to be there. Rude dick head. Gave me a lot of shit over nothing, interrogating my every move.

Gee, Im such an asshole since I invented the copper gate valve and designed it to rust away in 3 years.

Its ok, when he wasnt looking, I eye dominated him (lol, I love saying that).

eye dominated??? lol... never heard it put like that... i like that... gonna have to use it next chance i get...

[Diary of a Mad-man]

eye dominated??? lol... never heard it put like that... i like that... gonna have to use it next chance i get...

yeah, I got it from people here (of course I added my own little twist about "when he wasnt looking" which was a joke about me being a puzzy).

Look at IronReload04. His title says eye domination. LOL. I was thinking about how funny the phrase is and how im going to eye dominate someone tonight, when I checked back to this thread.

Maybe I should print a shirt that says "you just got eye dominated" and go around mean muggin' everyone. Then people will be like "what the ****, that guy eye dominated me" after I stare at them, they read my shirt, and they pass.

[jsinur7]

yeah, I got it from people here (of course I added my own little twist about "when he wasnt looking" which was a joke about me being a puzzy).

Look at IronReload04. His title says eye domination. LOL. I was thinking about how funny the phrase is and how im going to eye dominate someone tonight, when I checked back to this thread.

Maybe I should print a shirt that says "you just got eye dominated" and go around mean muggin' everyone. Then people will be like "what the ****, that guy eye dominated me" after I stare at them, they read my shirt, and they pass.

dude, thats genius... that can be the next NO FEAR... Id wear it... print them up, bet people on here would buy them

[firmechicano831]

I like the ideal. lol

[Amorphic]

wow man. harsh. good luck with the rest of the repairs