Comments on Profile Post by Chibi-Reaper

Oh shit. Were you not able to clear the pipes of water? Fuck.

Okay I see the situation this is fucked all around.

Yeah, I got a busted pipe too. I have net and power though so...yay...

It was dry enough to go down and look, and actually it was two pipes. Both the hot and cold line to the washer machine. Swell.

Situation update, a few days after the fact. One of those pipes is nicely plugged. Other? Technical issue. Waiting on a different sized plug to arrive, apparently.

Further sitch.

Plug? Arrived, helped nothing. Shame. Further inquiry for DIY suggests duct tape and prayers will not cut it.

On a plumber waiting list. Best estimate for timeframe: 'Some point in the next couple weeks'.

Also, bumped my head crawling around under the building. There's nails down there. So. Scratched my scalp open a bit, which was fun.

Grand ol' time.

Please be safe, and I hope that doesn't get infected. Rusty old nails are a classic danger for a reason.

Immediately went at it with disinfectant wipes, rinsed with bottled water, and then antibiotic ointment, but yeah. Thaat... that would be real swell.

I hope your wifi has at least returned. No wifi is fucking pain.

Internet has been back for a while, so there's that. It's just that water lines to the washing machine being busted mean eeeeverything has to be turned off or it just... pours right on through.

No knobs anywhere along the way that go 'I'm gonna cut off the flow from here on until that section gets repaired, but let you keep using the rest' or anything like that. One thing breaks at any point and it's aaaaall broke.

Oh man that sucks.

I had a pipe break recently, but at least that was somehow easily isolated by luck even if one bathroom had to be barred from use. That's so much worse.

Yeah, it's why the responsive attempt at a fix once everything wasn't frozen mud down there was 'Okay, can we just plug it up and do without the washer?'

Unfortunate that that didn't work out, but nothing to be done about it.

Idle thought: 'Maybe zip ties can squeeze down on the pipe and keep the plug in, since it's flexible'.

It was worth a thought but in practice didn't need to even test with water to see that it wasn't gonna happen. Not with the force I and a tie can exert.

Get a metalic clamp maybe?

Theres also ties that supposed to around some hose joins.

There's heavy duty zip ties that might do the job, they need to be ratcheted down and exert lots more pressure. There's also a type of epoxy with metal powder mixed in for repairs

Yeah... but at this point, with a plumber visit already scheduled to happen ETA:soonish, I've already spent all I want to on attempting fixes.

Seems I misheard the time estimate of 'within the next couple weeks', when it was actually 'it'll be at least a couple weeks'.

Best estimate is 'sometime next week or the week after...?', it seems.

Cool news, receptionist lady just called to confirm that after looking through to try to make a better guess at the time frame?

Actually, the booking can't be found on their list of people in need of service at all.

So, like.

That's great to hear.

The fuck is up with that shit?

I have noooo idea. But it's neat to know that apparently, instead of being buried somewhere in a list of hundreds of people we just aren't on it at all. For some reason.

Possibly this means that the plumber has a shortlist of today's work in his hand and is going to just show up in a couple hours! Doubtful though.

On the one hand, that sucks they didn't have you down.

On the other, maybe you will get looked at today?

Fingers crossed.

For the next scene on our little rollercoaster of plumbing appointment drama: No actually, we are on the list after all.

Receptionist just thought we weren't because she was looking for the wrong name? Somehow that happened.

The address was put in correctly, though, so... it's back to pensively waiting to see just when things happen I guess.

Man, we are just at the absolute bottom of the list, huh.

Figured that there'd be a 'Oh, you have to go out for a while? We call now.' situation but nope, still not yet.

This is what happens when attempts at DYI are made instead of calling a pro right away, so nobody to blame but that asshole in the mirror.

Time: 'Bout two weeks since last comment.
Change in situation: zero. Still waiting on contact from plumbers.

Really. Can't be helped, but still... not a thrilling state of affairs.

Another weekish.

Timeline on plumbing: ?

Car: "But what if... you also had no brakes."

Luckily, there's a grocery only a couple blocks down, strolling distance, but... whew.

Holy shit what the fuck. Did you find that out while driving?

I hope there was no accident.

No accident, the car hasn't really been going farther than that grocery recently. And 'no' brakes might be a slight exaggeration... for now, but lately, you've suddenly got to really slam it down for them to start to work at all.

Seemed like it might've been a quick fix for air in the line, another DIY solution. Only, nothing resulted from it when we tried.

Basically been really freaking my brother out to drive it, and it's his car and he drives it so... no driving happening.

Which means a little more planning needs to go into grocery selection, since purchases get carried back, and one more item on the list of 'problems that need addressing eventually'.

Well, at least there was no accident. But problems you can't figure out are really annoying. At least if you discover what it is as something you can't deal with, you can leave it alone.

This case, it's annoying and you're constantly unsure. And any complications in a break is too important to risk "Okay, just need to step harder from now on".

At least your grocery shopping isn't completely fucked though. Hope you're at least managing as is.

Yep. On the priority list of 'this needs fixing', car currently sits well below plumbing.

It's just that plumbing repair is delayed until such time as the gods smile down from the heavens and the plumber has a free moment, basically.

Damn. Here's hoping in deadline horror; that shitshow is sorted.

Brief summary of things as they stand:

Car works, thanks to neighbor's friend.
AC works again, low priority as that was because:
Got in touch with landlord's wife by pure chance, landlord has dementia and she handles things now, new contact info.

... But when the plumbing will be fixed? Only god knows that.

And god said "PLUMBING NOW"

Less than half an hour's work from someone with the tools and actual know-how, it seems. Well, unless something falls apart in a day or two.

How long has it been since my own shower and toilet worked the way they were supposed to...?

So I take it, no more worries on public bathrooms and other services? Give or take at a stretch, 'borrowing' other showers or worse; hacking at a 'hot tub' service?

As long as the fix is good and there's no 'Oops it didn't hold, you're going to need to come back' issues, things are good!

That being said, there is now months of cleaning to catch up on.

Been a couple weeks and since if it's not one thing or another, washing machine has now decided that once it starts filling up for a load of laundry it will not stop on its own like it's supposed to once it reaches the right fill point.

Yeah, okay. Could be worse. Mop mop mop.

Vaguely recall wise; I wonder if this is now, officially the end; of your leaky pipe saga?