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Day Three, Now with Water
Apr. 19th, 2023 10:09 pmWe have water again after having it off for not quite 3 days. Mike the plumber came back today, finished digging things up (I didn't realize digging things up was even in the expected plumber tasks, but he had shovels both times he was out here), and did I'm not quite sure what to put our pipes back together. (Did he splice in new pipe, or just reconnect the old ones? I'm not sure, as I was working while Kimberly was dealing with the maintenance.)
Plumbing is always expensive, but the cost wasn't at all out of line for him being out here twice. Once he was done he told us to give it an hour, and then Sloooooowly turn it back on. We did, and soon we had water back in the house.
The way water was spraying out of the piping we don't think much bad gunk got into our piping system, but we ran it all for a bit, and should theoretically have clean water, though we'll empty out our two five-gallon bottles before we need anything else potable.
Then right after my California-directed workday (which is to say, 3.30), my dad showed up so we could work on the lanai. The ten boards we had were each eight foot and a hair, and the lanai is between 15 and 16 foot wide, so we had to cut everything. We cut a diagonal across the boards (e.g., 8/8, then 2/8/6, then 4/8/4, then 6/8/2, then 8/8) to make it look as nice as possible and have them all wedged into place.
So, we could kind of walk out there, and no one's going to fall through to their death any more.
But we'll return to the task next week to get out a remaining rusted-out screw and get gorilla glue between the boards for protection and space them all out and then screw them all done.
And that'll be two of our pile of tasks that deluged us at the start of the week done. (Well, actually, they'll still be painting of the new boards, which are only primered, and then we identified one final four foot section that needs to come out, but that's all for the future.)
Tomorrow is waiting around Lihue while my auto folks look at the car and tell me they need to order a part. But I'll take my computer out somewhere to get in most of a day's work ...
Plumbing is always expensive, but the cost wasn't at all out of line for him being out here twice. Once he was done he told us to give it an hour, and then Sloooooowly turn it back on. We did, and soon we had water back in the house.
The way water was spraying out of the piping we don't think much bad gunk got into our piping system, but we ran it all for a bit, and should theoretically have clean water, though we'll empty out our two five-gallon bottles before we need anything else potable.
Then right after my California-directed workday (which is to say, 3.30), my dad showed up so we could work on the lanai. The ten boards we had were each eight foot and a hair, and the lanai is between 15 and 16 foot wide, so we had to cut everything. We cut a diagonal across the boards (e.g., 8/8, then 2/8/6, then 4/8/4, then 6/8/2, then 8/8) to make it look as nice as possible and have them all wedged into place.
So, we could kind of walk out there, and no one's going to fall through to their death any more.
But we'll return to the task next week to get out a remaining rusted-out screw and get gorilla glue between the boards for protection and space them all out and then screw them all done.
And that'll be two of our pile of tasks that deluged us at the start of the week done. (Well, actually, they'll still be painting of the new boards, which are only primered, and then we identified one final four foot section that needs to come out, but that's all for the future.)
Tomorrow is waiting around Lihue while my auto folks look at the car and tell me they need to order a part. But I'll take my computer out somewhere to get in most of a day's work ...