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On Monday our handyman finished up work on the bathroom.
We have a nicely retiled tub, but more notably, we've also closed out something like two years of problems. It started sometime last year with water flowing through a wall onto the floor during showers, and also through the floor.
This led to a parade of useless "experts" moving through our bathroom. I guess the plumber was useful, because he told us decisively that it was not the plumbing. But then there was the (very nice) guy who cut holes in our wall and put water traps under the house and could never figure out where the water was coming from. And then there was the guy who grouted over everything with mismatched grout that started washing away immediately. And then there was the guy who wouldn't even come out to give a quote without getting a fee for the quote.
At various times we thought we had the problem fixed due to this sealing or that grouting but it was all worthless work. And then the leaking would start again.
But now that's hopefully all done with. Because that shower was rebuilt from the studs up.
The particularly annoying thing last year was when we were simultaneously having other fairly major house problems. One was a leaky roof. And the other was a broken sewage pipe.
It was an annoying year for home ownership.
This year has been a little better, though there were a couple of months that we weren't using the leaky bathroom at all as we waited for our fix.
And we did have an electrical problem where an outlet started failing anytime we put current through. But that got fixed.
So Monday our shower work ended.
Tuesday our shower was usable. Our house was problem free for the first time in almost two years.
Wednesday the circuit that contained that supposedly fixed plug totally fritzed out. We couldn't get it to reset. And, it was a big deal because it's the circuit with our fridge, microwave, and dish washer.
So we went two full days without a household problem.
(I guess that's more days than the Trump White House ever goes without proving its abject stupidity.)
Thursday morning I was able to reset the circuit. So we're good for the moment.
But given the weirdness of the problem, and it not being resettable for at least 7 or 8 hours, and the fact that it was the same circuit that had the problematic socket earlier this year, we've called in electrical support.
They're out in January some time. Because why would anyone ever need electrical work quicker?
We have a nicely retiled tub, but more notably, we've also closed out something like two years of problems. It started sometime last year with water flowing through a wall onto the floor during showers, and also through the floor.
This led to a parade of useless "experts" moving through our bathroom. I guess the plumber was useful, because he told us decisively that it was not the plumbing. But then there was the (very nice) guy who cut holes in our wall and put water traps under the house and could never figure out where the water was coming from. And then there was the guy who grouted over everything with mismatched grout that started washing away immediately. And then there was the guy who wouldn't even come out to give a quote without getting a fee for the quote.
At various times we thought we had the problem fixed due to this sealing or that grouting but it was all worthless work. And then the leaking would start again.
But now that's hopefully all done with. Because that shower was rebuilt from the studs up.
The particularly annoying thing last year was when we were simultaneously having other fairly major house problems. One was a leaky roof. And the other was a broken sewage pipe.
It was an annoying year for home ownership.
This year has been a little better, though there were a couple of months that we weren't using the leaky bathroom at all as we waited for our fix.
And we did have an electrical problem where an outlet started failing anytime we put current through. But that got fixed.
So Monday our shower work ended.
Tuesday our shower was usable. Our house was problem free for the first time in almost two years.
Wednesday the circuit that contained that supposedly fixed plug totally fritzed out. We couldn't get it to reset. And, it was a big deal because it's the circuit with our fridge, microwave, and dish washer.
So we went two full days without a household problem.
(I guess that's more days than the Trump White House ever goes without proving its abject stupidity.)
Thursday morning I was able to reset the circuit. So we're good for the moment.
But given the weirdness of the problem, and it not being resettable for at least 7 or 8 hours, and the fact that it was the same circuit that had the problematic socket earlier this year, we've called in electrical support.
They're out in January some time. Because why would anyone ever need electrical work quicker?