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The Plumbing Nightmare Continues

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Rants

Finally heard back from the plumber’s part guy. They have to order direct from the man­u­fac­turer as none of their sup­pli­ers have the part. The bleepied-bleeping bleep man­u­fac­turer will not ship overnight. Expected tran­sit time of the part?

2–3 weeks

Yes, that’s right. They said it will take weeks. I told him I’d have to get back to them about it, since we have no way of shut­ting off that tub except by killing water to the entire house.

A slight pause and then he asked if the water was run­ning con­tin­u­ously then?

I wanted to beat my head on my desk but just said yes.

He asked if we have cop­per pipes. I said we did but to be per­fectly hon­est, I’m not 100% sure of that.  I’ve seen some cop­per pipes, some PVC and some other kind when I’m down in our base­ment. He rec­om­mended we put in a shut­off valve so we wouldn’t run into this sit­u­a­tion in the future.

Fore­head: What’s the broad, flat sur­face rush­ing at me all of a sudden?

Desk: Don’t you worry about what I am just yet, we’re going to have plenty of time to get aquainted.

I know the guy was just try­ing to be help­ful, but seri­ously we know we need a cut­off valve. We want a cut­off valve, but we don’t have the time/money to be remod­el­ing our bath­room right now. I told him I’d have to talk it over with the wife and call them back.

And to be per­fectly hon­est, at this point I’m more inclined to call a dif­fer­ent plumber to see if they can come out and fix the prob­lem now. I’m so sick of this plumb fun.

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