I am in construction. I know enough to know that there are things that I know how to do and things that I don’t know how to do.
My wife, however, does not make that distinction.
Thanks for posting.
lol
That PEX stuff.... like using a water hose instead of pipes... this whole shack I’m in was plumbed with PEX (or QuickPlumb or whatever)
Owning a house is such fun.
I’ve been forced to repair my own A/C several times.
"Damn good thing.... I {NO} NOTHING about air conditioning."
Check the capacitor if it just suddenly quit...but be careful with them things...they can shock the hell out of ya if'n ya don't "no" what you're doing.
Not quite Celine...
Welcome to my world :-) but you got ‘er done!
Duct tape is still the handyman’s secret weapon though...
PEX is great!
Two part epoxy putty will get you by in a pinch, but if you’re going to all the trouble of crawling under the house, you might as well fix it right.
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.
Really smart....not real smart.
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.
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.
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!
When I was single, I used to fix countertops, wiring, doors, stuff like that for young ladies I knew. It really got them going. A man in the house fixing things!
Otherwise, I know I'm gonna have to call a pro.
Funny stuff, thanks for sharing.