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Plumbing still sucks. I don’t care who you are but if you like plumbing, you must be making money off other people’s woes. I mean, sure, I love indoor plumbing and all of that, but when something goes wrong, good luck. Thankfully, we have friends and family that do care about us and try to help. Father-n-law plumbing came and tried to do what he could. While he was here, we found a Dairy Queen cup left in the wall by that company that promises, “to make it like it never happened.” I was livid but, that’s another story. They also had left about three feet of copper which caused the issue to begin with. Complete laziness on their part, replace all of the copper, no issue.
Unfortunately, what Joe was trying to do wasn’t going to hold the leak. So, instead I sent a text to Dave. He said he’d be right over and indeed he was… on a Saturday no less. A couple of fittings, some PEX pipe, and all was well. Crisis averted. Next up in the remodel will be removing the paneling, drywalling and changing out Jac’s bathroom. One more step to finishing this remodel.
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Since purchasing our house almost eight years ago, we have been in the “process” of remodeling. For anyone that has done this before, you already understand what we have been through… if you haven’t and plan on it, may God protect your soul! We have had plumbing, electrical, and flooring issues. We’ve added walls, removed walls, split rooms and combined rooms. We have added a large deck, enclosed a garage, added walkouts, poured concrete driveways and sidewalks. We have added a roof, added siding, adding stone, and even redone landscaping lights. We have added dirt, moved dirt and landscaped. In other words, we have done it all. Do you know what I hate more than anything? Plumbing.
If anyone tells you that plumbing is easy, do not believe them. They are lying to you in order to make you part of their club.
The old adage that copper is best and will last forever, is false. What you see here is a tiny, tiny pinhole leak that only leaks when the water is pushing through. It happens to be on a toilet so every time it flushes it has a little bit of what come out. Over time, it has made little mess that needs fixed, but all in all this gets to be replaced. Want to guess what is to the let of this? PEX. We had an agency come and “Make it like it never happened” and this is where they stopped. They left three foot of copper. Needless to say, if you want it done right, do it yourself. This part is soon to be replaced with PEX, leaving us with maybe ten percent new copper in the entire house.If you have ever doubted whether or not to use PEX, heed my advice, use it. Copper leaks. Perhaps it didn’t before the chemicals began to be added to our water supply, but it definitely does now.
