Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Tips on plumbing

If you take a look at your house's plumbing and discover that back in the dim -- very dim -- past, a cheap-ass plumber used this sort of pipe:



Replace it, immediately. This is the second piece of "bendy, shiny material" piping that has caused us leaks in the past year. Clearly, they were easier to install in small spaces than proper piping that doesn't rust. And, while they have a life span of 12 years -- which was when this building was converted into apartments, why wait that long for it to start pissing water all over your floor? Look at the close-up:



It's rotted right through, causing rusty water to drip out and drive me mad. Hmm, maybe that's what the Chinese meant by water torture -- it's not just the dripping, it's the hassle of trying to find a plumber to fix it.

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