Had a fun little weekend adventure with my bathroom sink basically turning into a fountain. Spent 4 hours under the cabinet with YouTube, a flashlight, and slowly dying hope. Finally fixed it… I think.
Got me wondering — what plumbing nightmares have you guys dealt with on your own? Did it go well, or did y
Tips also welcome, especially for those “should be easy” jobs that somehow ruin your whole day
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Had a fun little weekend adventure with my bathroom sink basically turning into a fountain. Spent 4 hours under the cabinet with YouTube, a flashlight, and slowly dying hope. Finally fixed it… I think.
Got me wondering — what plumbing nightmares have you guys dealt with on your own? Did it go well, or did y
Tips also welcome, especially for those “should be easy” jobs that somehow ruin your whole day
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I had water leaking from a pipe which was disconnected from the water manifold.
The manifold was accross the unfinished basement and it took me like 3 hours to actually confirm the pipe was disconnected and could have no water supply (we have two shower heads in the primary bath but one has been disconnected for years).
I turned off the water to everything to try to figure out what it was coming from and never could figure it out.
Ended up calling in my wife’s uncle (he built houses for like 20 years) and found out that the supply to the master toilet had a leak that was draining into the cut line for the cold water supply of the master shower and then leaking out of that.
Was a real mind fuck, was an easy fix, and was caught quickly enough that there was no permanent water damage.
See I’ve got this big, leaky pipe and I just dont know what to do with it…
A house I bought came with a new septic tank because the idiot clean up crew drove over the old one and crushed it. They hired the lowest budget septic install methheads. Naturally there were problems. I started by clearing roofs from the cast iron and relaying a straighter run to the septic tank in PVC because they made some crazy straw contraption to use the old line with the new tank.
Backs up again. Go apeshit and dig in a whole new leach field by hand while my bitch ex wife screamed at me for taking too long. I go to connect it to the septic tank and the fucking methheads hadn’t glued the pvc connection for the old leach field so it was full of sand. Connected both leach fields, never had a problem with the new dual leach field super septic system ever again.
Bit of work in my bathroom. I am confident but not overly experienced.
Cut both the hot and cold supply pipes feeding my bathroom ready to t junction them off to add in a shower.
Didn’t realise until I’d cut them that they’re not 22mm. They’re 3/4 inch. This was 5pm on a Saturday of a bank holiday weekend. All of the local plumbers merchants were shut until Tuesday. Wickes/ b&q don’t stock oversized olives.
No isolation valves to turn off.
Couldn’t turn the water back on until I sorted it.
I was brave and fudged it with a 22mm olive and a bit of PTFE, but my arsehole was twitching all weekend.
I had a water hammer issue and had to strategically install arresters all throughout the house.
To distract my mind from a divorce and selling everything I spent 25 years building, I built my own house on the 3 remaining acres that used to be my 1100-acre farm. When I was installing the tankless hot water heater, I had a problem getting it to ignite and work properly. At this time tankless hot water heaters were still newish to the US market and very few resources 2013. After a lot of trial and error it had the wrong orifice installed, it was supposed to come with one for natural gas, so I installed one for propane, either I got them mixed up or the original one was mislabeled. I finally got it. Tankless is the way to go, I love it, I must have done a good job 10+ years and it has not burned down or collapsed.
P.S. I did hire the brick laid and the septic tank installed. I did not want to dig that big of a hole with a shovel.
Replacing the heat exchanger between my outdoor wood boiler and my backup oil unit. Trying to get all the black iron apart sucked. Getting it back together and getting the leaks to seal was even worse because I couldn’t get the unions to line up perfectly.