[Woodworkers] Is it just me? another one added

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Years back I started " a simple plumbing job " for a bathroom repair . Problem was  a leaking bath tub fixture . 

 Have a older home and went downstairs to turn off the water main .

When I did this things started to leak pretty bad around the main water  faucet.
 
 Scared things might turn into a basement flood  I called the water company and bought  a new water main faucet  .

 When they (water company )  came to shut off the  water main at the road , there was some sort of problem at that location and they went to the next level of control to shut things down . 

 So my simple plumbing repair knocked out water for the entire  neighbor hood until fixed  :-) 
 I did get the job dome fairly quick 

 Ed Meyers  
Penfield, NY ---- 





Steve Bigelow via Woodworkers <woodworkers at lists.sawdusters.org> wrote: 
> Why does a simple home repair turn into a major renovation?
> 
> Backing up a bit...
> 
> My wife's birthday was coming up, and she's currently in the mode of "we
> have too much stuff", so she didn't want anything for her birthday. I asked
> her for ideas, and she mentioned that it was be nice to get rid of the
> carpet in her office and replace it with hardwood.
> 
> Hmmm, OK, I'm thinking, maybe we can do this. How hard can it be? We
> replaced the carpet with hardwood in the living room, and the whole process
> took 3 days (for at least the hardwood part -- more later).
> 
> Her office is in the basement, and the house is built on a slab, so real
> hardwood was out. We went shopping for laminates, she picked out one she
> liked, and I plunked down the money for the little bits of sawdust glued
> together, with a picture of wood glued on top. (Way too much money in my
> opinion, but I digress).
> 
> So, this last weekend, we start in on the new flooring. She cleared out her
> office, and I ripped out the carpeting. Looking at her office, I realized
> that the paneling from the 90's was really going to clash with the new
> flooring. Drywall behind it, so I figured it would be another day of
> mudding / taping, and then some primer. No big deal.
> 
> We ripped out the paneling, and from the bottom of the drywall to about 18"
> up had water spots and black mold. So, now the drywall is coming out.
> Apparently the basement had gotten wet at some point. We've never noticed
> any moisture, and it was completely dry, so...
> 
> Now she's at the Borg picking up some latex concrete sealer / water
> barrier, along with new paint for the room.
> 
> Icing on the cake: when the office was built, someone took a huge bonus
> room and turned it into 2 offices, a library, and a bathroom / laundry
> room. The bonus room used to have orange shag carpet in it. How do I know?
> They built the walls right on top of the carpeting / carpet pad, and it's
> very visible once I started pulling off the drywall. Ugh.
> 
> Since I had to rip out the drywall, she mentions it would be nice to have a
> few more outlets in the office... Oh, and could we move the phone wiring?
> Since the electrical is all exposed, can we replace the baseboard with an
> in-wall ceramic heater?
> 
> I'm dreading taking off the drywall on the outside wall, because there's
> probably no insulation....
> 
> Does this ever happen to anyone else?
> 
> Regards,
> -Steve
> http://woodworking.bigelowsite.com