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Developing a Plumber's Crack
12/5/07 - posted by Hogers at
6:54 PM
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It'a amazing how much you can learn when doing renovations around the house. When Judy asks me about a fix around the house and says that it should be easy, I always tell her "there are two ways to do things...the right way and the wrong way"...hahaha. Sometimes, there are days when I don't have time or am too lazy and will do a fix the wrong way (see below).
Another example is a broken sprinkler pipe in our lawn. We have this sheared off section of our PVC piping that gushes 100 gallons of water a second whenever the sprinklers turn on. I tried to fix it the easy (wrong) way initially by getting a wine cork and trying to stuff it into the hole. When the water turned on, it shot that cork about 20 feet across the lawn...hahahaha. Now, I've decided to do it the right way and went to Home Depot to buy PVC pipe, connectors and red-hot glue. I'm estimating that it will take two hours to dig down, cut out the existing section and re-connect the pipes...but at least I'm learning how to do things the right way.
On a side note, Home Depot sometimes has employees that are really good in their respective fields. I found this guy who was a retired plumber (worked 30 years for the city), and just works at Home Depot cause he likes to help people out. I love free advice/training.
