We were fixing a back deck and stair on a rental house in Navarre. I have actually been doing pretty good with the exercise, but as usual chit happens. While stripping the old deck boards my wife took one and threw it toward a pile we had created but her aim was not even close as she hit the faucet which came out of the crawl space, and broke it off. Water spraying everywhere. We were able to shut the water off at the street, but when I got into the crawl space, I found the faucet was connected to the vertical stack which distributes the water all over the house, and that when it broke, it broke a T on that vertical stack which required us to cut back all the piping to the backflow valve and rebuild the connections.
She runs to Ace hardware to get some three quarter inch pipe, and fittings and we begin around five pm to fix it. Of course the flashlights go dead and it is getting dark. We build a new stack and connect to some of the existing pipe, but when I turn the water back on a pipe had a pin hole leak caused by the twisting to remove the threaded section which required cutting the entire stack out and getting more parts before ace closed. Dark and getting cold we reassembled the stack and I simply bought some caps, and hooked the main lead, and turned it on. Another ever so slight leak, and I told the wife screw it we are done for the night and will need to finish it Sunday afternoon, as we need to get the deck and stairs done. We will be leaving Wed. and will simply turn the water off and finish after Christmas when we return for three weeks.
A wasted half day because a board did not land where intended.
She runs to Ace hardware to get some three quarter inch pipe, and fittings and we begin around five pm to fix it. Of course the flashlights go dead and it is getting dark. We build a new stack and connect to some of the existing pipe, but when I turn the water back on a pipe had a pin hole leak caused by the twisting to remove the threaded section which required cutting the entire stack out and getting more parts before ace closed. Dark and getting cold we reassembled the stack and I simply bought some caps, and hooked the main lead, and turned it on. Another ever so slight leak, and I told the wife screw it we are done for the night and will need to finish it Sunday afternoon, as we need to get the deck and stairs done. We will be leaving Wed. and will simply turn the water off and finish after Christmas when we return for three weeks.
A wasted half day because a board did not land where intended.