Second Last Day Of The Year (2014-12-30)
 

Good morning.

Took my mutt into the dog grooming place this morning. Now, I am just working on my PC for the remainder of the day. After dinner, my wife, daughter |crazy| I are going to see "2014 Cannes Lions Awards: The World's Best Commercials" at the Hot Docs cinema downtown. It's always good for a laugh.

Have a great day! |thumb

My day hasn't been horrible thus far, though I did spill some gravy on my shirt during lunch at my desk. I need to decide if I want to nap after work, or play FarCry instead. Decisions, decisions.

Yesterday's water leak turned into a 3K expense involving digging a tunnel under my house, capping off the leaking coper line, and running a new PVC line from the water meter to the hose bib on the front of my house.

Crap, that is really lousy.

Feel like I have the flu, but it can't be the flu as I had the jab. So I looked up sicknesses with flu like symptoms on the Internet.

Google thinks I have Ebola!

I can never understand why builders don't think of access for leaks when they build a house. My sister and her husband wanted a Roman style bathroom when they moved in to their new house. They wanted a hand made mosaic (my sister's husband is worth a few bob). The builders laid the pipes, covered them in concrete, then let the artists in who covered the walls and floor in little inch square tiles to form a Roman style mosaic.

This took a lot of work, cost them a shed load of money, but was a unique work of art. They had decided that they would live in the house for decades, possibly a lifetime, so it was worth spending to get what they wanted while they could afford it.

About fifteen years or so later the pipes began to leak. The only way to get to them is to dig up the concrete, which means smashing up the mosaic with sledge hammers. Not only was it bloody expensive, it is a work of art, no one wants to destroy it.

The result is that they have not used the shower for about three years. The mosaic is intact (except for a small patch where a builder tried to lever it off without destroying it - and failed), but they have to use the small bathroom in the top of the house, in what used to be the servant's quarters back in "Downton Abbey" times. And they have to use the small shower that was probably originally put in to hose the servants down.

But the unused bathroom still looks very nice!

My house was built in 1952. Houses built now are not allowed to put the water pipes under the house.

If my house was a modern house the water pipes would have been in the celling.

Putting the pipes under the house, not even in protective sleeves is just corrosion waiting to happen.

Besides copper pipes under my house with no protection my house has galvanized nipples connecting all the valves and cast iron sewage pipes. All this in a house a half mile from the ocean. |banghead|

Building codes have been changed, but my house is old.

May Old Acquaintance (2014-12-31)
 

|snowman|

Damn that sucks Cleo, sorry to hear it.