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OT - How not to remodel a bathroom

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Step one: Install with a built in one piece fiberglass surround tub

Step two: frame the door to the bath room with said tub too narrowly to every remove the tub in on piece

Step three: Wait 35 years, then buy place with said built in tub

Step four: grab a Sawzall

Step five: decide to be careful rather than checking that the water cut-off valve still works

Step six: nick the cold water pipe with the Sawzall

Step seven: fill the air with colorful language when the cut off valve fails

Step eight: let the water flood the bathroom for, say, 20 minutes while you crawl around under the town house trying turn anything that vaguely resembles a secondary cut-off valve the pipe wrench will fit
 
tdskip said:
Step five: decide to be careful rather than checking that the water cut-off valve still works

Step six: nick the cold water pipe with the sawzall
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Ahhh, Mr Murphy. Never fails to show up around my house at project time. :whistle:
 
I thought that was how you did it.
 
I'm sorry I can't stop laughing, I'm realey sorry!
 
Russ Austin said:
I'm sorry I can't stop laughing, I'm really sorry!
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Hey, that is what it is all about. I wasn't quite ready to laugh right after it happened but had great fun telling the story to some friends last night.

I ran heaters in there last night and I don't think any lasting damage was done.

I wish I had video of the moment when the Sawzall nicked the pipe - I heard a "tink" and the very next thing, couldn't have been more perfect if it was a scene out of a movie, I had a stream of water hitting me in the face. Very funny after the fact...
 
If you could have somehow shocked the heck out of yourself when the sawsall was shorted out by the water......GOOD GRIEF Charley Brown!!
MD(mad dog)
 
tdskip said:
Russ Austin said:
I'm sorry I can't stop laughing, I'm really sorry!
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I heard a "tink" and the very next thing... I had a stream of water hitting me in the face.
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HAHA now this is the point where I cant stop laughing! A video of that would have been priceless!
 
I just had the house that I'm remodeling re-plumbed and I have a shut off valve for every water line, hot or cold. All new style ball heavy duty valves.

On the last line being installed, the master plumber thought that his helper had shut the line off, but he stopped to grab a Coke out of the basement fridge and was bs-ing with the electrician. The plumber was on a ladder up in between the floor joyces and he got soaked. The helper got his butt chewed out for 10 minutes after he had to clean up the mess.
 
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