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Well just Heck!

I don't like digging, Kenny, so I put it right behind my water meter!

& I've got a pressure washer....
 
Now this if fun...I have the water turned off out at the street, but when someone needs to "go" I have to go out and turn it on so they can flush, then turn it back off again! Weee!!!
 
If it's yellow, let it mellow......
On a lighter note, why is it called plumbing? :smile: Useless trivia moment.......lol
 
Silverghost said:
If it's yellow, let it mellow......
On a lighter note, why is it called plumbing? :smile: Useless trivia moment.......lol

I dunno, but why do we drive on a parkway and park in a drive way? Or why are they called "apart" ments when they're all stuck together? Hmmmmm.
 
I have to go to Home Depot and buy every piece of hardware necessary to repair the a toilet leak. It takes me an hour to do the job that should be twenty minutes- including throwing away the old parts. I've often thought there should be a law against amatueres (sp?) doing home plumbing. T.T.
 
Silverghost said:
If it's yellow, let it mellow......
On a lighter note, why is it called plumbing? :smile: Useless trivia moment.......lol

<span style="color: #CC0000">Plumbing?

The word derives from the Latin word for lead
which I think is plomo (Spanish it's plomo.)

A plumber is Spain is a plomero.

Lead was also used in most cathedral roofs.
The roofers got bent out shape when folks called
them plumbers so they split out of the guild and
took on the professional name "tinsters".

regards,

tinster :thumbsup:</span>

Boss, Here's a helper for ya!!

JackHammerweb.jpg
 
Tinster said:
Silverghost said:
If it's yellow, let it mellow......
On a lighter note, why is it called plumbing? :smile: Useless trivia moment.......lol

<span style="color: #CC0000">Plumbing?

The word derives from the Latin word for lead
which I think is plomo (Spanish it's plomo.)

A plumber is Spain is a plomero.

Lead was also used in most cathedral roofs.
The roofers got bent out shape when folks called
them plumbers so they split out of the guild and
took on the professional name "tinsters".

regards,

tinster :thumbsup:</span>

Boss, Here's a helper for ya!!

JackHammerweb.jpg


Might want to think twice about that picture ...

T.
 
NutmegCT said:
Might want to think twice about that picture ...

T.

<span style="color: #000099">???????????????????

A local construction lad with eye protection
operating a jack hammer, digging a hole.


???????????????????????????????????

Is the jackhammer made in China or something?
The other worker has a cut-off saw which is useless
for digging holes.

d</span>
 
NutmegCT said:
Might want to think twice about that picture ...

T.

It's just a young man using a jack-hammer (and he is smart to be wearing proper eye protection).

Tinster - I am seriously hoping that I won't need that Bosch helper! (If I do, I'll be hiring someone)


PS: I'm sitting here drinking a few cups of coffee (had to make with bottled water) working up the gumption to head out to the front yard and start digging!
 
Basil said:
PS: I'm sitting here drinking a few cups of coffee (had to make with bottled water) working up the gumption to head out to the front yard and start digging!

<span style="color: #006600">dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig,
..............................dig, dig, dig

Several hours pass and Basil's neighbors begin
to drift over to watch the DIY plumber at work!!

Very happy all O.S.H.A. requirements are being met. </span>

pit.jpg
 
budk1953 said:
And 2 hours later..........
guatemala_sink_hole_2.jpg

<span style="color: #990000">A whole bunch of visual evidence in that photo to
indicate the sinkhole collapse was "man made". I'm betting there is a
large construction machine at the bottom of that collapse.

d</span>
 
Workin' here, Boss - :wink:

Mickey
 
Houston, we have pipe! Ok, about 4 ft down I finally got to the pipe and have located the leak. Now the fun begins!
 
And the good news is...the leak must not be under the slab unless you have been a real mole in the last few hours!!!
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:thumbsup:
 
You folks use plastic supply pipes?

(Maybe it's our cold water grounding requirement...We don't use grounding rods)

Or maybe because the earth moves more around here?
 
I generally dislike ~any~ kind of "house" work. I can sweat copper, glue up PVC, wire up 110, 220, blah, blah... I'm about burned out on it. Once this place is squared up I never wanna mess wifit again. The copper is all in th' slab here, I just ~KNOW~ it won't be long 'til I'm runnin' PVC overhead thru th' whole place due to some kinda leak...

I do ~NOT~ envy ya Basil.
 
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