Plumbing can be a pain

[SnakeIce]

I'm working on the kitchen sink. Changeing the drain from rickety old pipe to plastic was the easy part.

But I also have to change the faucet out. The bolts holding it on have been sprayed with wd40 every hour or so for the last 4 hours and I have just gotten them to break loose a tiny bit. The space is so small that I can't get an adequate tool in there to get them off like i wanted to 3 hours ago.

I had to lay on my back under the sink, and put my feet on the underside of the sink to get enough leverage to do what I did.

grrrrrrr

Parden me while I go paint it blue :mad2: :soda:

 

[Kasakato]

Try soldering pipes in that space. Its some hot fun :sim:

 

[SnakeIce]

Well hindsight always improves the outlook on things. I did manage to get them off. not counting the time waiting for the wd40 to work it took me just over an hour to get the old one off and just 15 minutes to hook up the new one. There are some 'antiques' that arn't worth the space they take. The mess I replaced fit that description.

Still need a couple of small parts to finish the job.

 

[Kasakato]

LoL. The small parts are the hardest. Another trip to the local hardware store!

 

[greeneyedlady]

How's this for plumbing my house is only 5 years old we had it built the builder was supposed to be oh so fantastic <note sarcasm> my upstairs shower unit cracked on the bottom and we couldn't figure out why, so we had a friend come over and look at it. He tells us that whoever put in the shower removed all the supports from the middle and that is why it cracked.............so to fix it we have to rip the whole thing out and start all over.......the way we noticed is a dark line was appearing on our downstairs ceiling. Then the ceiling in the kitchen starts to leak took us a while, but we got the source the other bathrooms shower/tub unit that our kids use. So we figure they are splashing water right........wrong so now that one has to be ripped out and totally replaced also...........grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

 

[nursie]

Oh plumbing is such a wonderful thing!!
When we moved into our current house we used the shower in our bathroom..oh I think a day or two, and then went to the garage one morning to be met by a big hole in the ceiling and a waterfall. Thank God it was over the garage instead of the finished basement...
Apparently the moron who plumbed the house used duct tape to fill in the size gap between the shower drain and the pipe.
We had to rip into the bathroom wall in our hall bathroom to access pipes to stop a leak there. When we added on to the place, the plumber that did the work would shake his head over various things and make comments like...that's no where near code..and why would someone do that. We ended up spending more on plumbing than we planned.

But it could have been worse. Apparently when the house next door was built, the guy caught something on fire under the sink, put it out and left. from what we hear, about 3 in the morning the back blew out of the house..the place was on fire. Fortunately for the buyer it had not been turned over to him, and he had a completion bond on the developer, so he came out of it ok.

 

[Galaxie]

Next time you need to get into a tight faucet, go to Home Depot or Lowes and buy a "basin wrench". Its made for exactly that chore.

Also, the best way to support the bottom of a fiberglass showerstall or tub, is to set it onto wet concrete. Just mix it to a non-runny thickness and the tub/stall molds down onto it for 100% support. In use, it will make your plastic feel as strong as cast iron. If you have a professional doing your replacement, ask him about this.