Home Improvements

[SD]

Anyone with plumbing experience? Waters not coming out of my shower head. The spout diverter is worn and needs to be replaced. So I watch a few online videos on how to remove the spout. There's either a set screw under neath the spout or you just turn the spout counterclockwise to remove it. There's a space where the set screw should be but there's nothing there. I've checked relentlessly. So then I tried twisting it off but it won't give and I don't want to break a pipe. So now I'm stuck.

[Diomedes]

I've done that.  You just need to twist harder.  Use a bigger wrench.  Not kidding.

Watch a couple more vids.  You'll see they use a big ass wrench and have to put a lot of ass on it to get the thing to move.

Or, call a plumber.  Never hurts to have an expert do his job.

[SD]

Thanks dude. I tried again this morning. Tried the biggest wrench I have. Threw some rubber gloves on and tried that too. It's not budging. I even popped the back of the shower off to expose the piping to see if I could do something that way. I'm done trying. My buddy recommended a local plumber. Giving them a call this morning.

[smeags]

take a bath, hippie.

[Rome]

Replacing a shower pipe is something anyone should be able to do.  If the pipe extension is "frozen" your best bet would be to call a plumber, though. 

[Diomedes]

Might be time for a torch.  Let the plumber do his thing is a good idea at this point.

[SD]

Plumber will be here tomorrow between 10-12. farging thing just won't budge. I took a bunch of pics under the spout to see if I'm just missing the set screw but there's definitely not one. It's an older spout and most of them were made as twist offs.

I gave it one last try a little bit ago. I can pull it off the wall but not twist it. I pulled some tin snips out and cut a bit to see if there's something I'm missing but as rome mentioned it's frozen to the extension pipe.

Nice lady on the phone said they get these calls often about older spouts that are stuck but people wind up breaking their pipes and that's a whole nother mess.

Might be time for a torch.  Let the plumber do his thing is a good idea at this point.

A torch is probably going to solve the problem. I really put some torque into this farger but it's locked.

[Rome]

The power clicked off in my neighborhood around 3 this morning.  There's only 61 homes affected but of course mine is one of them. 

I was going to install a whole house generator after the hurricane last year but cheaped out.  I have a portable but it's supposed to be back on in a couple of hours, so farg it.   

It's disgustingly hot, though. 

[Diomedes]

I clicked hoping for an update on SD's plumbing troubles.  Got whining from Local Florida Man instead.  Am Disappoint.

[SD]

I clicked hoping for an update on SD's plumbing troubles.  Got whining from Local Florida Man instead.  Am Disappoint.

They called yesterday - 2 hours after their appointment window - to tell me the wife of the technician who was supposed to service my house went into labor. Not sure I'm buying it but oh well. We rescheduled for Thursday morning.

[Diomedes]

Homeowner life sucks.

When I call a plumber, he shows up.  Contractor life.

[Tomahawk]

The power clicked off in my neighborhood around 3 this morning.  There's only 61 homes affected but of course mine is one of them. 

I was going to install a whole house generator after the hurricane last year but cheaped out.  I have a portable but it's supposed to be back on in a couple of hours, so farg it.   

It's disgustingly hot, though.

61 was my high school football number!

[Don Ho]

Hey, that's how old I, never mind.

[Don Ho]

As we speak:

Installing new cabinets in kitchen, new sink, new backsplash and cutting old counter down to install a new granite counter,   
Installing new floors in entire house
Installing new kitchen/living room lighting
Installing new vanities
Installing new toilets in all 3 bathrooms
And painting entire downstairs

Good f'ing God!  It's not the construction and all the expected "unexpected" issues, or that we haven't had use of our kitchen since mid July, all we have is a refrigerator/freezer and thank God neighbor let us borrow her old microwave or squeezing into my upstairs office to eat dinner or watch TV.  It's the purging of all the crap we've hoarded and accumulated the past 21 years in this house.  Rented a POD and put it in the driveway and the damn thing filled up before we knew what hit us.  Wine glasses we've never used, empty scrap books and the crap that goes with it, my wife's shtein, my shtein, kids shtein, AAAAHHHHH!  I tried to fool myself before we started that it would be a piece of cake clearing out the rooms of all the junk, damn was I ever wrong.  I did find my Pete Rose autographed baseball though and my 1993 NLDS Champs Bums Hat that is in mint condition, never worn. 

[SD]

It's the purging of all the crap we've hoarded and accumulated the past 21 years in this house.

My house is 3 bedrooms. When I moved from my old place I donated as much as I could but wound up throwing out around 30 bags of crap. I kept a bunch of boxes and kept them in my spare room. My daughter wanted to use the spare room as a playroom and I needed an office since I work from home so I wound up donating or throwing the rest of the junk out. If you haven't used it in years, it's not worth keeping.

Plumber just left. $200. He used a pair of plumber pliers to remove the spout. The spout was so old he didn't have one in stock, so he had to run out and get a new one.