In the meantime, cold weather woes continue, and dropping a grocery sack with bread that turned out to have eggs on the bottom have stressed me to a frazzled. The bread – OK; the eggs – three broken and leaked on my clothes, muffler, and stupidly carpeted kitchen floor.
Maintenance was contacted. Ben, the maintenance guy for the units, established what needed to be done: replace the faucet and create a shut-off for faucet inside my apartment.
Till he did that, repairing a simple leak like this one would have required shutting all water off for the lane if I understood him correctly. Anyway, it was a tedious, pain in the butt, cold weather repair that inconvenienced a lot of people.
Broken eggs that leak on everything are not much fun.
Those inside shutoffs are a blessing. Glad your maintenance guy put one in.
Nasty to clean up, too!
The apartment was built during WWII. I think the lack of an indoor shutoff was due to the urgency of wartime need for housing for people building an airbase and their families. Shortcuts were taken and lack of material to build probably necessitated them.
I would cry if I broke any eggs being that the price is over $5 a dozen.
These were less than that, but three out of a carton of 18 still is unacceptable!
Sorry about the eggs, Doug, and what a winter mess! I’m not fond of this time of year either. I suppose the cold froze a pipe…
Yes, it was cols enough that’s what happened.
It seems like everything is more annoying in the cold.
Absolutely! I have no patience with it, as if that is helpful!
Looks like it was stressful for poor Andy! All that nonsense going on around him. Time for a nap.
No doubt it is! Same for his human.
So exhausting
It is!
On the bright side, water-works didn’t seem to bother Andy. But poor Doug was affected. Hope things are okay now, Sir.
Yes, things have settled down!
Great, mate!
I left a comment saying I hate winter, too. With some descriptions of incidents here. Something said Comment Sent in faint letters. I don’t know if it will show up. I get confused by the process and should do it more often to get better at it. You and Andy stay warm and get plenty of naps in!
I hate winter, too! Ours in western Washington has been relatively quite mild. But it could turn. Our biggest snow events have been in mid to late February within the last several years and taken us completely by surprise. We’re talking a couple of feet, very unusual for here! I hope not.
The plumbing in this old cabin I inherited is terrible, too! And I’ve had to fix it myself at times, including replacing the pump for the hand-dug well. But at least I won’t be affecting other people if something goes wrong.
Gad! That’d be the death of me. I am not very handy around the house.
Lovely pics of Andy but I hear you about the rest. I hate winter too, especially snow and ice, rare here. Everyone else had fun with pics but I didn’t even get a good one.
Snow and ice are especially problematic for me, though using a walker instead of the cane I used earlier, it’s a bit more secure crossing ice.
I guess it shouldn’t surprise me that rental properties are so poorly designed: the maintenance guy at my building says the plumbing and HVAC systems are a nightmare and whoever put them in probably bribed the building inspector. I hope your troubles subside or at least the temperatures rise to a tolerable level. The broken eggs would have made me cry! They’re so dear now, as the British might say.
Yes, the power of money is such that shortcuts are taken for short term gains. Henry Ford’s philosophy was that if you needed a machine to do a job but didn’t get it, you ended up paying for it anyway in added scrap, poor customer relations, poor quality, loss of highly trained employees.