{"id":58,"date":"2007-09-17T22:28:41","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T03:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zingman.com\/blog\/?p=58"},"modified":"2007-09-17T22:28:41","modified_gmt":"2007-09-18T03:28:41","slug":"plumbing-the-depths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/17\/plumbing-the-depths\/","title":{"rendered":"Plumbing the Depths"},"content":{"rendered":"

The leak in our laundry room ceiling was getting larger and damper until we decided ignoring it and hoping it would go away on its own was not a good strategy. <\/span>I was really dreading having to work in it, since I didn’t really know how to diagnose the problem, or quite possibly fix it, plus I just came off a rather large unexpected home improvement project. <\/span>Luckily for us, help was at hand. <\/span>Lizzy has a friend at school, Hannah, and as luck would have, Hannah’s dad Peter is a plumber, and was happy to help us out. <\/span>Thank you Peter!<\/p>\n

He came over and cut a hole in our ceiling and had a look. <\/span>He knew just what he was doing and had the tools, and so pretty quickly he spotted the problem and fixed it, so that was just great. <\/span>It turned out to be the toilet — a slow intermittent leak because the main seal was starting to go. <\/span>So whew. <\/span>My big fear was that it would turn out to be the bathtub and we’d have to tear out the whole tub surround. <\/span>We’re planning on tiling out bathroom this fall, so now would be a good time to know about it any event, but luckily that turned out not be the case. <\/span>Everything else up in the space between the floor and the ceiling looked nice and dry and clean.<\/p>\n

As it turns out, Peter is from Liverpool, UK, so I get I by with a little help from my friends. <\/span>Now all I have left to do is fixing a hole. <\/span>Sheet rock, taping and painting. From this point on there’s nothing I can do that can’t be done, even if it’ll take another weekend or two. <\/span>I feel like I’m in a ever-widening circle of projects like this, so hopefully I can finish getting things fixed before something new breaks. <\/span>But then tomorrow never knows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The leak in our laundry room ceiling was getting larger and damper until we decided ignoring it and hoping it would go away on its own was not a good strategy. I was really dreading having to work in it, since I didn’t really know how to diagnose the problem, or quite possibly fix it, … Continue reading “Plumbing the Depths”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-improvement","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}