Posted on 01/20/2015 10:10:02 AM PST by Osage Orange
And I'm not fried!! Ha!!
Knowing what you don’t know is a good plan for a long and healthy life... [”A man’s got to know his limitations.”]
Glad you’re back in business and not crispy...
Now that I’m an old guy, I’ve learned something.
Whatever I plan to do ends up costing twice as much as I figured and it takes three times as long to accomplish.
I've roofed a whole house by myself...Painted a whole house, replaced windows, window sills, etc...etc....
Laid sewer pipe....Built fence...barbed and wooden.
Replaced power steering pumps, brake calipers, vacuum pumps...rotors, radiators, etc..etc....
Done more than I can remember.....Ha!!
Ain't it fun!!
What?
Really smart....not real smart.
PEX and SharkBite fittings are awesome!!
PEX is good stuff. When you get accustomed to working with it, it’s much faster to install. It doesn’t break so easily when frozen.
And no pipe machines required (for those of us who’ve fixed some really old plumbing).
Hubby is quite handy. Usually takes him several trips to the store before he has all the parts, but he gets the job done. When he got laid off last year, he asked me to give him a honey-do list, so I obliged. He looked over the list and told me all the tasks are “two person jobs,” and he’s going to need me to schedule a time when I can help him do them. Every man I’ve told this to says he wishes he had thought of that. The guys I work with think Hubby is a genius.
Louis Ferdinand Celine was a major author of the 20th century.
He used a style that employed three dots to separate sentences or thoughts.
Your piece was written in the same way.
I thought maybe you’d read him and were using the same style.
JB Weld...
I've used manual threaders and electric too.....
Still have many dies for my manual threader....Have not used that in years. Cut and threaded a lot of black pipe and galvanized back many years ago....
Yep....I've owned some older homes!! HA!!!
That’s what landlords are for. Luckily, mine is interested in keeping up his property. He also takes care of his tenants. I’m crippled and can’t do a lot around the house. After one ice storm, I awoke to the sound of chain saws in my back yard. It was my landlord with a whole team of men and boys clearing the fallen branches.
He said he’d come by to make sure my power was still on and saw the tree damage. Then he apologized for waking me up!
Nowadays in addition to duct tape you should keep a can of that spray stuff that seals leaks.
I used to hate crawling under the house when I was a teenager to help my dad fix broken pipes. They always seem to break only when it was cold. And then crawling around on the cold, wet ground just made it worse.
My two cents: I learned how to work with PEX after we bought our current house here in Florida. Previously, I spent a lot of time doing all things copper in all the other places I’ve lived. I put off learning plastics because I remembered when they had so many problems with bursting plastic pipes in the 70’s & 80’s. I read up on PEX and learned how long it lasts (up to 50 years) and how the acidic water here in Florida corrodes copper pipes in 7 to 8 years. I have to say, I love the stuff. It is easy work with, flexible and very forgiving on measurements compared to copper. Jobs go much more quickly. Cutting, trimming, & joining (all you need is a knife and a crimping tool) -— no sweating joints in difficult to reach places where you have to worry about burning your house down. Great stuff!
It's just me...I guess.
Making me self conscious now....Ha!!!
as Red Green said “Keep your stick on the ice” and as Jack Horkheimer always said “Keep looking up”
:p
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