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These are just too fun: http://www.google.com/ig/directory?synd=open
I think google is conspiring to waste the world’s bandwidth with stuff like this.

For several months I’d been annoyed with our backyard faucet.  At some point a pressure regulator thingy cracked off the top, causing water to spray in all directions whenever the faucet was turned on.  I’d talked with an employee at our local home improvement super store.  Supposedly all I had to do was unthread the thing and it should pop right out.

That turned out to be only partially true…

Using a screw driver, was able to break the thing loose and proceeded to unthread it.  Eventually it came all the way unscrewed, but it wouldn’t pull out from the wall.  Frustrated, I decided to thread it back in, but the coupling was deep inside the wall, making it difficult to know what was going on.

Feeling moderately satisfied that I’d restored the status quo, I went to the garage to turn on the main water valve.  Immediately I heard gushing.  I ran into the kitchen to see that our dining room floor was covered in water oozing out from our wall.  I sprinted back to the garage and shut off the water all within 30 seconds.

At this point Lisa insisted we call a professional plumber – who was I to argue?

Within an hour the plumber shows up.  He tells me that we’ll have to cut out sheet rock to access the pipe, and if I do the cutting it’ll save $200 from the bill.  I agree, but then he insisted he’ll do it but not charge me.  Turns out the dude missed the target about 3 times, leaving a 15″x15″ hole to access 4″ of copper pipe.

Oh well, patching sheet rock is about the same regardless of size, so no big deal.  Then it go to remove the old faucet.  The end of the fixture has a large coupling that’s fixed on, which is to wide to fix through a grommet between the frame and the siding.  I suggest we cut the pipe and push it back through.  The plumber agrees, but has a sub par hack saw.  In the end, I grab my hack saw, and I do the actual cutting.  Next I line the thing up and thread it back.

I shouldn’t be too upset.  Sure the bill came to 10 times the cost of the part, but he through in some teflon tape, and I learned to offer my stud finder before a plumber randomly starts cutting into my wall.

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