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World Plumbing Day | Pad Patter Mon March 11th

Angela Toucan

Angela Toucan

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Plumbing - that wonder of modern life we take for granted until it goes wrong, or we travel somewhere and find it lacking.

Have you done any plumbing training? My dad taught me the basics before I left home, and my husband did a night school class in DIY plumbing.

Do you (or your partner) attempt home plumbing issues? We do a few of the simple things, although we will still employ a qualified plumber for most issues.
 
I have some basic plumbing skills. I learned how to solder brass pipes together many years ago, but not because of plumbing, but because I was making a cool sprinkler for the garden. :giggle My hubby and I have had to repair several underground PVC pipes that have either broken or we broke them while digging in the yard. Most of them were sprinkler lines. Oops! So we are good at fixing those. I much prefer the ease of cutting and gluing the PVC pipes together over the solder and brass pipes! :agree

We had an OLD cast iron pipe in our crawl space that rusted all the way through and was leaking this winter. Thankfully it was only the drain pipe from our kitchen sink and dishwasher, so it wasn't anything really nasty, but it still was stinky and in a 4 foot tall crawl space, so we did hire a plumber to come fix that for us. I was very happy to not have to do that project!
 
I am a big DIYer and I do a little plumbing -- things like changing/fixing faucets and toilet mechanisms. Anything that involves soldering, I leave for the professionals. AND last time I changed out our kitchen faucet, I decided lying on the floor with my torso in the cabinet and the cabinet frame gouging my spine, getting dizzy from positional vertigo, was ENOUGH! :D Calling a plumber next time.
 
I haven’t had any official training but hubby and I do fix a lot of little plumbing issues. I prefer he do it because I tried to fix the kitchen faucet on my own and sprayed a bit of water everywhere lol
 
I am a frequent customer of my plumbing company, lol!!!

Within the last month I had two faucets replaced (kitchen and washer), one rebuilt (bath), a water pressure reducing valve installed, and had the old twist-turn main water valve (which I could not turn) replaced with a on/off lever that you pull down to shut the water to the house off, or push up to turn the water on.
 
Memaw2Wm said:
had the old twist-turn main water valve (which I could not turn) replaced with a on/off lever that you pull down to shut the water to the house off, or push up to turn the water on.
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That sounds like a great idea. Ours is really still and my hubby needs to use a wrench when turning it off - I just can't.
 
Angela Toucan said:
That sounds like a great idea. Ours is really still and my hubby needs to use a wrench when turning it off - I just can't.
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I've lived in this house for 34 years and am excited that I can FINALLY turn the water off if I have to. It's always bothered me that I couldn't. I just wish the other plumber had suggested these levers for the washer's faucets. I can turn the new twisty ones, but the levers would have been so much easier!
 
We just had to use a plumber- when our flooring was replaced in our downstairs living area/hallway/dining room/half-bath 2 years ago they had to remove and then reinstall our toilet. A couple of weeks ago, my husband was using that bathroom and realized that there was a leak- water was coming out from under the toilet onto the wood floor. He thought the wax ring had gotten messed up, so went and bought another one, but when he removed the toilet two of the flange bolts that hold the toilet down were sheared off. He rented a fan/dehumidifier for a couple days to dry out the floor while our toilet was disassembled and lying in the hallway- the cat had quite the time with that! After the floor was all dried out, we had a plumber come and replace the flange that attaches the toilet to the drain, and now our toilet saga is done for this month!
 
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