Today in Adventures with Mom, who has been a home owner for 30+ years - The Case of the Sweating Pipes.
Today in Adventures with Mom, who has been a home owner for 30+ years - The Case of the Sweating Pipes.
I get up this morning and am regaled with Tales of a Plumbing Emergency in the basement. She has already called two companies and is thinking of calling a third if they don’t respond Right Away. Eventually, I get credible info and look and the pipes are sweating and dripping all across the basement ceiling. I say well it looks like the pipes are sweating, that’s odd. No no no! Disaster! Emergency! Ok, well we can ask the plumbers.
An hour later she says something offhand about hearing water running in the basement. Upon querying it is not the creek that runs under the house that you can hear by the sump pump. No, this is something she heard and decided to dismiss over near the half bath. Except she’s sort of telling me now.
So I go down and check and low and behold the toilet is running. It has probably been running for two days because that’s the last time someone likely used it. The flushing mech in the tank got stuck so it never closed. I perform feats of technical prowess (not) and release it and it’s fine.
Plumbing co one calls and the first thing they ask is if a toilet is running. Plumbing co two calls and confirms it was probably that. She insists that plumbing co two come out and check because “they will probably find something wrong that they can fix.” Also, that toilet is old and etc.
I attempt to explain that there really isn’t an emergency and the toilet is fine and it’s kind of silly to spend a lot of money on a plumber for probably no reason. Then I give up and walk away.
A little while later my sister reminds me that I cannot possibly have fixed the problem because I do not have a penis. She is probably correct, as even if I had one that is not what I would have used to fix the toilet. My bad. #csbp
I get up this morning and am regaled with Tales of a Plumbing Emergency in the basement. She has already called two companies and is thinking of calling a third if they don’t respond Right Away. Eventually, I get credible info and look and the pipes are sweating and dripping all across the basement ceiling. I say well it looks like the pipes are sweating, that’s odd. No no no! Disaster! Emergency! Ok, well we can ask the plumbers.
An hour later she says something offhand about hearing water running in the basement. Upon querying it is not the creek that runs under the house that you can hear by the sump pump. No, this is something she heard and decided to dismiss over near the half bath. Except she’s sort of telling me now.
So I go down and check and low and behold the toilet is running. It has probably been running for two days because that’s the last time someone likely used it. The flushing mech in the tank got stuck so it never closed. I perform feats of technical prowess (not) and release it and it’s fine.
Plumbing co one calls and the first thing they ask is if a toilet is running. Plumbing co two calls and confirms it was probably that. She insists that plumbing co two come out and check because “they will probably find something wrong that they can fix.” Also, that toilet is old and etc.
I attempt to explain that there really isn’t an emergency and the toilet is fine and it’s kind of silly to spend a lot of money on a plumber for probably no reason. Then I give up and walk away.
A little while later my sister reminds me that I cannot possibly have fixed the problem because I do not have a penis. She is probably correct, as even if I had one that is not what I would have used to fix the toilet. My bad. #csbp
Not enough -_- face in the world.
ReplyDeleteNext time I do some maintenance that involves taking up the toilet, I’ll invite your sister over so I can hit her in the head with it before putting it back.
ReplyDeleteAmy Young , not her sister, her mother. Although, I'm afraid you might hit her just a tad too hard 😈.
ReplyDeleteShe said her sister was the one who brought up the penis requirement for plumbing.
ReplyDeleteLol. To be clear my sister was being sarcastic. She and I have both regularly run up against my mother learning too well the chauvinist lessons of her youth. Why, just late this morning I learned that it was fortunate my brother is (finally) visiting. Because he knows how to use duct tape.
ReplyDeleteF-L Silver I can explain how to use it, if you’d like....?
ReplyDeleteducks
😁
ReplyDeleteStep one involves putting the roll somewhere convenient. Hence the penis requirement.
ReplyDeleteJASper!
ReplyDelete(...I'm still laughing.)
👏 a round of
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