Friday, 15 August 2008

• I hate plumbing

  The house that we live in is... well, it's an interesting sort of place.  My husband lived there for while as a child, then his parents rented it out for a number of years, and about 10 years ago, my husband bought it from his parents.  It's a concrete block house... actually, it started out as a garage, then was converted into a house in the 1950s.  These days, it's not in the greatest shape.  One of those kind of places where every time you fix one thing, 3 more things break.

  We've had some problems with the sewer line recently.  My husband worked on it a couple of weeks ago and thought he'd taken care of most of the problem... Nope.

  We had a plumbing disaster yesterday afternoon, the details of which I will not horrify you with.  This weekend will most likely be spent replacing our entire sewer line as well as about half the plumbing... 

  Our last plumbing adventure (which occurred a few months before we got married and I, foolishly, agreed to come over and help with) started out as a "simple" job of replacing of the water heater that would only take a few hours and turned into a not-quite-so-simple job of replacing most of the plumbing and took several months to complete.  I really, really, really hope that this doesn't turn into another one of those.

  We have a second bathroom at our house (more precisely, a former bathroom) that we (more precisely, my husband) managed to make somewhat usable... Actually, it it quite reminiscent of the facilities we had when I was in India and involves the use of buckets for bathing and flushing...

  I think that I want to move.

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