The joys of owning a house

It is crazy how much you can learn about something in just a short amount of time. At the beginning of the week our bathtub faucet started dripping and it slowly increased each day so on Wednesday, Mitch decided to replace it. In order to get the new one on, he had to cut a piece of the old pipe off because it was too long. Well in the process of doing this, he loosened the seal in the pipe that goes up to our shower so every time you turned the shower on, water would shoot out of the pipe and end up on our garage floor. Good news is that it was the garage floor and not inside the house, bad news is we didn't find it for a day or so because it was in the garage and so the puddle was more like the size of a small pond.


(the old copper pipe that was shooting water out of it)

Once we found all the water in the garage, we quickly cut a hole in the wall of the bathroom so we could find the leak. It took us awhile because we couldn't see anything leaking but all the insulation and the floor under the tub was soaked so we new something was happening. We turned on the faucet in the tub and nothing happened so we turned the shower on and two seconds later Mitch yells at me to shut it off because water was spraying everywhere.

(the lovely hole in my wall)

Long story a little shorter, Mitch had to find a small blow torch to heat the pipe so we could pull the pieces apart and then put a new elbow something or other back on (you can tell that Mitch learned a lot and I just held the flashlight). I was really nervous about Mitch using the blow torch because he was feeling very powerful when he held it and I was certain that he was going to start the house on fire and then we wouldn't have anything to put it out with because all the water to the house was shut off. It was very stressfull!!



At the end of the day I used our food storage water to boil noodles for spaghetti and my wall is still torn apart and the tun faucet still leaks but hopefully all of that will be fixed by the end of the weekend!!!