My head! It explodes from my plumbing bill. $1100. This was the price to go into the walls and replace two old shower faucets, fix a sink, and re-solder a popped outdoor line. Plus the cost of the faucets. This makes my head hurt very badly and dream that I was happy with turning the water on in the walls and that I had never called them.
Also, though, I will forget, and it really was absurd to be turning the water on in the wall, and the faucets will be nice forever, because they are really very good plumbers, and no more troubles when the house is full of people, which it often is. Unless, as the plumber pointed out, the rest of the old pipes in the wall decide to explode from the excitement (or additional water pressure) from replacing a few sections. Funny, but also not funny.
Miss Fish spent the entire 6 hours under all of the covers, flat as a snake.
The awesome news is that my Mac charger arrived (thank you Bill!) and I am reunited with my silver beast. It’s always intense when it transforms from a lifeline, a limb, to a block of aluminum.
I’m dreaming hard, all night, every night, my head is swirling with God knows what. Everything is breaking free, tendrilling out. I’m off to see Larry tonight, and really looking forward to it.
It was incredible to be really truly warm today; the sun soaked deep into me and loosened all of my bones. I replaced all of the batteries in the outdoor solar lights (an annual job), raked the yard, and put all of the bead tubes into neat little bags for the Cigar Box Bead kits. I made a start at another sort of Fortuneteller today, too, one that might have promise…
I offer you my most sincere condolences on the cost of the plumbing. It is a most terrifying surprise. Maintenance is a royal pain in the butt!
I don’t know if I’d recommend to anyone that they buy a house. It’s always something!
Ouch! your poor wallet was have swooned! I hope it’s whimpers fad away with all the happy laughter ringing around the house when all your guests are there :) So glad you can finally warm your bones at home – I’m sure all the survivors in the garden are heaving big sighs of relief at the warm air too. Back into the freezer for us :( supposed to be the coldest spell we’ve had so far this Winter; what a hardship for me to stay in and bead, lol
Wow! Those new faucets are perfect. I enjoyed witnessing your impressive negotiating skills over the new year when the plumbers visited during the pre-freeze freeze.
It’s been warm here too–what luxury. The hummingbirds have been quite crabby. Here’s a handy site on recharging/replacing solar batteries:
http://www.solarlightsplusmore.com/replacing_solar_light_batteries/
as I learned long ago . . . you don’t own a house, it owns you!
Seems to me that you got a pretty good price for all that work. Hope they closed up the holes in those walls. And now, care free showers. Bon scrub!
No, I don’t like closing up walls. It’s silly. I don’t want to have to open them again if something goes wrong. I like a good access panel, myself. One hole is in a closet, one already has a wooden door. I already had a bath! The faucets are PERFECT.