My 8th grade math teacher once told me that you never own a home, it owns you. She was also the first one to figure out that I read lips to compensate for my hearing loss. Smart lady. Anyway, this weekend involved more work on the basement remodel plus I had to fix the plumbing in the kitchen. I have now officially replaced the entire drainage system for our house from every fixture to the drain field (except for the septic tank). Our kitchen sink wasn't draining, so replaced all of the pipes back to our main sewer line. Here is a picture of the old drain pipe I removed. After cutting through this pipe with a saws-all (there was standing water in the pipe at the time), I took a 2 hour shower.
My next project was to wire our basement with internet cables. Our long-term plan is to move the office downstairs, so I put the internet equipment in the closet of our current office and wired the satellite and power for it. The one drawback is that getting an internet cable to our desktop computer in the meantime is a little tricky. A year ago I would've run the cable across the floor, but now we have the Cable Monster, so I had to get creative. Karen wasn't very impressed.
My next project was to wire our basement with internet cables. Our long-term plan is to move the office downstairs, so I put the internet equipment in the closet of our current office and wired the satellite and power for it. The one drawback is that getting an internet cable to our desktop computer in the meantime is a little tricky. A year ago I would've run the cable across the floor, but now we have the Cable Monster, so I had to get creative. Karen wasn't very impressed.
When I lived in Laramie I had to re-plumb my house (trailer) when the furnace went out and everything froze. The toilet cracked clean in 2! And there were 32 holes in the copper water lines throughout the house. The last phase of the project was to fix the non-draining kitchen sink. To do this I got under the house, cut the PVC drain line, and repeatedly jammed a hose down the drain line. As I removed the hose each time I cleaned off the gray goo that had accumulated in the drain line. Like you I basked in an environmentally un-friendly shower afterwards.
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