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Today was supposed to be easy fixes around the house. Swap out the water spigot out back and make it more user friendly and hang my rail for my plants separating the living room and kitchen.
So, the water spigot turns into a major mess. The way they did it originally leaves about 4" of space to sweat pipe. Well, the Home Depot guy shows me this new system where it works like the old Chinese handcuffs. I buy what I need and get some plastic hose for the outside, boiler valve and a threaded end / handcuff for the valve. Should take me all of 30 minutes for this project.
Nope.
Pipe cutter is too big for the area and I couldn't fudge it. But after awkwardly using a hack saw blade and destroying my arm in the process, i get it close enough so I can twist it from the outside off.
You think that worked? nope. Outside they made a mess of things. The plastic pipe wouldn't fit through the hole and it took me 20 minutes of wrangling the copper out. I find the copper had quite a few twists in it too and I KNOW they were not from me twisting it off. I'm surprised it didn't leak.
I try to fit my stuff together and there just isn't enough room to get it all together and pull it closed/tight.
Going to have to hit Home Depot again and get another on/off valve (I'm nixing the boiler valve type for turning it off inside) and more fittings like elbows and stuff. I'm going to rework the whole thing so its not some kind of clusterfuck and easy to turn on and off for the winter.
So, onto another project until I can get parts - the plant hanger.
I cut my pieces of aluminum bar, drill out the holes. I did a good job too! everything is even and in line, something I manage to screw up often
Now for screws. Guess what we didn't buy? That's right, screws to bolt into the header.
So, that's project #2 half done.
Next?
So, the water spigot turns into a major mess. The way they did it originally leaves about 4" of space to sweat pipe. Well, the Home Depot guy shows me this new system where it works like the old Chinese handcuffs. I buy what I need and get some plastic hose for the outside, boiler valve and a threaded end / handcuff for the valve. Should take me all of 30 minutes for this project.
Nope.
Pipe cutter is too big for the area and I couldn't fudge it. But after awkwardly using a hack saw blade and destroying my arm in the process, i get it close enough so I can twist it from the outside off.
You think that worked? nope. Outside they made a mess of things. The plastic pipe wouldn't fit through the hole and it took me 20 minutes of wrangling the copper out. I find the copper had quite a few twists in it too and I KNOW they were not from me twisting it off. I'm surprised it didn't leak.
I try to fit my stuff together and there just isn't enough room to get it all together and pull it closed/tight.
Going to have to hit Home Depot again and get another on/off valve (I'm nixing the boiler valve type for turning it off inside) and more fittings like elbows and stuff. I'm going to rework the whole thing so its not some kind of clusterfuck and easy to turn on and off for the winter.
So, onto another project until I can get parts - the plant hanger.
I cut my pieces of aluminum bar, drill out the holes. I did a good job too! everything is even and in line, something I manage to screw up often
Now for screws. Guess what we didn't buy? That's right, screws to bolt into the header.
So, that's project #2 half done.
Next?
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