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Date Posted: 14:33:47 03/06/05 Sun
Author: C
Subject: Can I just say...

I hate my house and I'm ready to move. Old houses are great: they're cute, they have charm, and they don't look like the next door neighbor. I hate cookie cutters. I hate white carpet and white walls and white patterned linoleum. BUT I HATE PLUMBING REPAIRS even more.

Venting here.

Our family motto is: "There is no such thing as a small plumbing project." Sometimes we come close to using this as a Thanksgiving Day prayer. And there was one year I was using it as a curse as I helped install a new hot water heater in a crawl space during a late November evening.

Now, here I am, doing a not so small plumbing project. I did chant the family motto several times before diagnosing the problem, as I bought the part, and before assembling materials.

I can't even get step one completed. Step one is to remove the old tub faucet---they make it sound SO easy, "remove faucet by inserting a wooden handle, such as a hammer, into the spout and turning counter-clockwise." Yes, we know this. I cut my teeth on "righty-tighty, lefty-loosey." Instead of my faucet turning, chunks of it are being pulled off and falling into the tub. I have the very real fear that my tile shower wall is going to fall into a million pieces for the simple reason that the last people who owned this house WERE IDIOTS and don't seem to have attached the tile to a wallboard or anything remotely stable.

Now I've decided that this could turn to disaster and I should shut the water off, even though technically, I don't need to for this *simple* faucet exchange. I can't get to the back of my shower because my helpful father put a board over it. I got the screws out, but I can't for the life of me get the board removed.

No. Such. Thing.

So I'm quitting. Because I'm a quitter until I get my second wind and maybe a phone call from my mother.

And then I'm going house hunting, and this time I mean it! I will just SELL my cute house with different colored rooms, hardwood floors, french doors, and a swing in the front yard, and I will get one that has a mailbox, an all white interior, and has the personality of a sock.

Ugh.

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[> Sometimes even socks need upkeep tho. -- PB, living in a sock, 21:23:02 03/06/05 Sun [1]

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[> [> Very true! I just get tired of my 1958 model sometimes. And today my washer started spewing water. That, at least, I have the know-how and the muscle to fix! -- C, 21:36:18 03/07/05 Mon [1]

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[> The joys of owning a house. I keep telling my husband I want to sell this house when he comes back home. I'm sick of repairs and remodeling. Feel better C. :) -- Sheila I., 12:33:24 03/08/05 Tue [1]

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[> [> Thanks---After fixing my washer I feel much better. I do wish more water came out my shower than the faucet.....but that can be tackled on a future day! -- C, 14:51:31 03/08/05 Tue [1]

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[> [> [> At least it's not more water out of the wash machine than the shower. THAT would be a sad sad situation. :-) -- KatRose, 20:25:35 03/08/05 Tue [1]

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[> [> [> [> VERY true! -- Thankful C, 17:29:27 03/11/05 Fri [1]

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Hubby and I lived in an old house once. We loved it but it was a ton of work. By the time we left we had redone EVERYTHING. New roof, heat, bathroom, carpet, kitchen appliances, paint, etc. etc. etc. Oh.. and the bathroom? You wanna talk about IDIOTS? LOLOL!!! The former owners PAINTED the tub. That's right. With WALL PAINT. Yes. The INSIDE of the tub. Oh.. and did I mention the entire bathroom INCLUDING THE CEILING was RED? Uh Huh. It was like taking a little trip to He** each time you went in there. Oh ANNNNNDDD they had covered the toilet sear w/ red shag. Uh huh. It was QUITE scary. -- Luoodles, 23:46:01 03/08/05 Tue [1]

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[> [> Oh. My. Red?! In the bathroom?! I mean, my bedroom is red, and I LOVE it, but the bathroom? -- C, 07:12:39 03/10/05 Thu [1]

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[> [> [> I have a beautiful blue bathroom with white fixtures (I wasn't about to paint THOSE!), but can't imagine it red. Speaking of (sorta). I saw a picture in this Sunday's LA Magazine (part of the LA Times newspaper) on bathrooms and someone had a completely pink bathroom, from the walls to the floors to the fixtures and the toilet paper. They even only keep bottles of Pepto in the medicine cabinet so it all matches. I can only imagine the hegg egg that would give poor Luoodles! -- KatRose, 20:39:13 03/10/05 Thu [1]

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[> [> [> I have to say - I've seen old clawfooted tubs where the outside was painted red, and it was gorgeous - but painting the inside of the tub??? -- Aria, 14:55:18 03/12/05 Sat [1]

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[> I understand completely, C. I fell in love with our house because of the character. It was built in 1926 and the owner didn't believe in squaring anything. Drove hubby crazy when he laid the floor tile. Just today we talked about replacing the roof in the spring. The windows need replaced too. By the time we're finished, we will have replaced just about everything. Sometimes I'm in friends' houses that are more modern and I'm a bit envious. My next house will be on Sanibel Island, so I guess I'll be here for a very long time. -- Lisa, 15:28:47 03/11/05 Fri [1]

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[> C& Lisa ---I so agree! At times, my lovely 100+yr old home on a big lot, makes me yearn for a condo. But I wouldn't give up it's wood floors, BIG rooms, wonderful, huge mouldings, etc. Maybe if I keep see the positive, I won't think swear words at it! C, at least you have some maintenance skills! For usm it's a call to the repair guys! Or Remodlers! Yikes.... -- Frances, 06:40:56 03/15/05 Tue [1]

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