Shower Horror Scene
I just realized my upstairs shower is leaking onto the fisrt floor ceiling, and judging by the damage, has been for some time.
Arrrrrgghhhh!!!!!!!!!
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Kill me now.
Leaks are horrible. Good luck with the plumbing work to fix that.
These leaks are bad news. I hope yours is simple and easily repaired.
Damn I hate those kind of house problems! Between the mold and the rot it is enough to make me feel like being a renter and never owning property again. At least this is an opportunity to remodel the bathroom. The money part is devastating though! You have my sympathy votermom.
The bathroom WAS remodeled, sorta, by bath fitter several years ago. I left a vm with their service dept asking them to call me.
AAaaaarrgghhh! I hate this stuff. Good Luck with the insurance and contractor.
I think I’m in my last “owned” property. While it’s my lakefront dream house and almost paid off, I know we’ve put a lot more into it than it’s worth now. And it still doesn’t have my HGTV Dream Kitchen and Baths ! 😉
Does anyone think angie’s list is worth joining? I’ve seen a lot of negative feedback on it…
NO! You get annoying “daily deals” in your in box. It is like paying for advertising to be sent to you.
I’ve been on angie’s list before and take it from me – you don’t want to be on it.
Uh, don’t tell angie I said that.
Too late clown.
As for the real Angie’s List — I don’t think the money you pay to read the reviews is worth it, especially with free tools like yelp available these days.
Thank you very much – I was this close to joining!
I joined it because I was planning to redo the kitchen. It has been a good resource for me.
I get my best references for handymen, contractors, professional estate sale persons, etc from real estate agents. Also if you have a large senior center near by, some of them keep lists of seniors who want some work but not a lot of work and I have hired a great electrician, and brick layer from there. If you have a small job and they know you do not offer the prospect of future business it is hard to get trades men to show up.
This. ^^^
I prefer talking to a person I can trust (such as a real estate agent or other handyman, etc) to get recommendations.
is there any kind of a group in your area that rates plumbers handymen, contractors etc? where I live you can call and they give you 5 names you pick and they follow up to see if you are happy with the work done
I have two neighbors who use angies and have been very satisfied but one does not have email except at work so they may not be getting the same level of pester I have heard from others. I have always been leery because I here a lot of negatives from both users and contractors.
I am in a condo so you do need someone who is familiar with multi-unit.I have had to have electricians and others come to right wrongs done by DYI people in the two units below me. I tend to go with other peoples recommendations and recommendations from our management company combined with Consumer Checkbook for metro DC. Not sure they have one in your area.
Of course you could look at it another way. Maybe it’s time to get that bathroom remodel you’ve been thinking of?
dealing with insurance companies is a horror story of its own
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/07/unreal-dod-launches-more-urban-assault-training-in-chicago-confused-locals-think-its-hollywood/
DOD launches more urban assault training in Chicago.
confused locals think its hollywood
Yup,
Friday, the helicopters were flying low overhead and were very loud and scary. My daughter – who does not scare easily – and I had to go online to find out wth was going on. It felt as if we were under siege.
Damn, forgot I was on morning shift and slept in. My apologies, VM, Myiq, etc. Thanks for throwing this up, VM, and sorry to hear about your shower. Here’s to hoping it’s a cheap fix.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/exclusive-4-5-us-face-near-poverty-no-work-0
“Sometimes termed “the invisible poor” by demographers, lower-income whites are generally dispersed in suburbs as well as small rural towns, where more than 60 percent of the poor are white. Concentrated in Appalachia in the East, they are also numerous in the industrial Midwest and spread across America’s heartland, from Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma up through the Great Plains.”
“More than 19 million whites fall below the poverty line of $23,021 for a family of four, accounting for more than 41 percent of the nation’s destitute, nearly double the number of poor blacks.”
“”They don’t trust big government, but it doesn’t mean they want no government,” says Republican pollster Ed Goeas, who agrees that working-class whites will remain an important electoral group. “They feel that politicians are giving attention to other people and not them.”
This article should have been named “What Happens When Your Own Government Hates You”.
here is Judge Jeanine from last night.
I want her for attorney general
http://therightscoop.com/judge-jeanine-to-obama-over-phony-scandals-stop-the-lying-stop-gaming-us-and-start-leading-us/
JJ justifiably had harsh words for Leon Panetta, who in the last six years has trashed his reputation to everyone except low-information Obots. Well brace yourselves. Lo and behold, today;s Menterey Herald has everything but an endorsement for son Jimmy, a local prosecutor, who intends to run for congress when his father’s old seat becomes vacant again. A chip off the old block. What could possibly go wrong?
http://ricochet.com/main-feed/Mr.-Obama-s-Dangerous-Oldies
backtrack’s dangerous oldies. or poor johnny one note
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/07/28/obama-i-know-more-about-the-constitution-than-republicans/
but he just does not believe in it
It is also a lie. He doesn’t know more. He just says he knows more. He knows just enough to go around it but that is thanks to his advisers. Debate Cruz or shut up Obama.
http://illinoispaytoplay.com/2013/07/24/keepers-of-the-blagojevich-tapes-under-investigation/
Inquiring minds want to know——whats on the blagojevich tapes
I miss Blago, Chicago’s Weiner only with his pants zipped. He was the inspiration to my twitter thingy @blogho 😀
I miss his dead cat toupee.
Hahaha. Obama’s promise to protect whistleblowers has been removed from the change website: http://www.alternet.org/speakeasy/tikkundaily/obamas-promise-protect-whistleblowers-has-disappeared-changegov
Suckers.
His “promises” are a moving target. If you don’t blindly obey the lightbringer, you are a moving target as well.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/07/the-democrats-hate-campaign-continues.php
I am not sure if the democratic party was always like this, and i just did not see it or if the ugly came out into the open in 2008
today’s democratic party makes me ashamed I was ever a democrat
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/l…
Iconic ground zero photo almost excluded from museum as too rah rah.American
will I am proud to be a rah rah American and will be to the day I die
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/07/glenn-greenwald-low-level-nsa-analysts-have-powerful-and-invasive-search-tool/
do not think this scandal is going to go away anytime soon
Don’t let anyone tell you I slept until noon.
It’s 11:53 in California.
Catness is miffed because she missed 2nd breakfast and elevenses.
Do you still have all your toes?
Do bleeding stumps count?
http://townhall.com/columnists/austinhill/2013/07/28/james-madison-saw-this-abusive-government-thing-coming-n1650634/page/full
funny how wise our founding fathers were. just think they did not have the internet
http://www.wnd.com/2013/07/australia-illegals-not-welcome/
Australia’s new immigration policy
RD is still living in a paranoid world:
Maybe they cut those routes because nobody was riding the bus?
But that’s when people need it most!
There’s a fight brewing in New York state because Verizon wants to scrap all the copper phone lines in Fire Island and put everyone on a phone line that runs off the cell towers. People are pissed because Sandy knocked out phones since October and now the phone company is disbanding DSL and the cellular home phone service doesn’t connect to old-style alarm systems and medical monitoring equipment.
The state has told Verizon that they either have to fix the phone lines or sell them to another company. This is fair, since NY traded exclusivity for an agreement by the telco to give reduced bills to poor people. The problem is that people will copper landlines is shrinking and the revenue per mile of wire is dropping. I’m sure the people who still have wired phones like them, but there’s a certain point where the inevitable is inevitable.
Do we keep miles of bus line and miles of copper wire so 3 people can live like it’s 1965?
Not to mention that the price of copper is sky-high and copper wire is a target of thieves.
My neighborhood is not well served by public transit. That’s because most people around here don’t use it. If you look at the main transit lines they connect poor neighborhoods to schools, government services and shopping areas.
Wow. Buses eliminated, cut back largely due to pensions , overtime and other benefits. 10 per cent added to all liquor to fund writing on wall there for some time. Heard those that went private are doing well. The poor might actually get service if go permanent got completely out of it.
Go permanent=government. Auto correct
Maybe you’re not over her yet? 😈
Poor dear. RD seems to have conveniently forgotten. Pittsburgh/Allegheny county were/are staunch Circle D. It is from the bitter clinger areas surrounding the no longer even mid sized city that you find any conservatives.
Did she pay no attention on any trip back to birth town over the past the decades? The buses were cut years ago when the steel industry collapsed in on itself. You know, about 30 years ago. Not to mention that Pittsburgh (city) population is now about half what it was when she grew up in that area. No jobs, no people, no buses.
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something happy for a change….
http://womenwintoo.blogspot.com/2013/07/something-happy-for-change.html
But she can’t blame those evil Republicans that way. 😆
Good luck VM. 🙂
Mexican galvanized nipples!
Had the same problem here a while back. Turning the showerhead back and forth (away from the door before stepping in until the water runs hot, then back to the center) had caused a stress crack in the pipe the shower head was screwed onto, but behind the wall where I couldn’t see it. A short pipe like that is called a nipple at the hardware store.
As a software engineer, I was analyzing a hardware store’s backup that was failing to restore, and found there was data corruption in their inventory file for “nipples, galvanized, Mexican”.
I thought that was a show in TJ
In my head I hear Foghorn Leghorn:
MEXican GAAAAALvanized NIPPles! Ah say, ah say have yah EVAH hearda’ such a thaing!