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Neil is currently offline  Neil
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Registered: April 2006
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Not so much a rant to bitch about the situation, but more
something to provide you guys with some entertainment through
someone else's misery (can't let Deej have exclusive rights to
THAT territory, now can I? LOL)!

So, a couple of weeks ago, I'm vacuuming the pool (which I've
only done a few times all winter), getting it ready to start
using again, because we live in the desert & soon it'll be
swimming weather and I notice that the filter pump is leaking a
bit - I decide to pull it apart & see if it's a gasket or
something I can fix - turns out to appear to be coming from the
impeller seal, oh well, I don't have the tools for that, so I
put it back together & call a pool service company - they come
out a couple days later & say tha's indeed what it is, and they
can order a couple parts & fix it the next weekend...
cool. "Oh, and by the way, I notice that this 3-way valve that
sends the water up to the solar heating panels is cracking on
the outside... can you guys replace that at the same
time?" "Sure, but you'll also need to replace these two check
valves when you do that" "Ummmm... ok, can you get me a quote?"
Guy calls back later with a quote... a few hundred for the whole
thing... a bit more than I was prepared for, but not really out
of line, so I say "Do it!" Nice folks - don't make me pay when
they fix it, they send me a bill & when I receive it I send
them out a check this past Monday morning.

Monday night - last night - my daughter goes into the spare
bedroom, which is her "office" (which she doesn't use much -
she does all her school assignments on her laptop in her room
or the living room & then prints them out as needed... some of
them she uploads online in fact, and her professors access them
& grade them there, and she gets her grades via e-mails -
pretty slick, huh? Anyway, that's neither here nor there.), and
she calls out: "Dad, there's water on the floor in this room!"
Fuck... roof leak? It hasn't been raining, what the hell could
it be, then I realize that the water heater closet is on the
wall opposite that room... open it up, sure enough, leaking
from the bottom of the water heater. It's gas (not electric),
so I don't want to fuck with it... call the plumber, pay
the "emergency call premium", and have him shut off the water &
the gas... I drain it with a hose out the front door & call my
insurance company to see if I'm covered. Turns out I'm covered
for the damage the water caused, but not the plumbing itself,
which I guess makes sense. Now here's the kicker... plumber
tells me that new codes require a certain type of pressure
valve to be installed any time they do maintenance, or
repair/replace a water heater. I tell him "Wait, I just had
that done last year, when you guys replaced this old gas inlet
valve that quit working... it's this pressure relief valve
right here, and it cost me an extra 200 bucks or so at the
time." "Yes, sir that was a new CITY code implemented a couple
years ago, this is a new STATE code that they just implemented
this year... and it supercedes all city & municipal codes!"
"Fuck"
"Indeed"
(OK, he didn't say "Indeed", but it would've been appropriate
if he did) :)
Anyway, so here's the worst part... in order to do this new
kind of relief valve, they have to do one of two things - run a
line from the hot water (output) side of my water heater, up
through the roof, and down the front of the house to 6" above
grade, OR, run a line from the hot water side of the sink
nearest to the heater, then out through the nearest outside
wall, and down to 6" above grade, then the relief valve goes on
the end of that pipe in either case.

Sounds like a shitload of labor in either case, right?

Right... we all know you can get a water heater for a couple
hundred bucks, right? Total quote for this job... $1,444.00.
So, insurance will pay for the part of the carpet that's
damaged due to water, but not the whole room; and some in the
hallway is damaged too, but only a couple square feet of it...
so I get to pay for all the rest (like I'm going to replace
half a room's worth & 1/10 of a hallways worth of carpet,
right? Like you could actually get away with that.), and if
course, I have to pay for all of the plumbing work, since
that's not covered. There's mold in the carpet now, and it's
being dried out by one of those companies that does that sort of
thing, but my daughter & I are going to be staying in a hotel
for a couple of days due to health concerns with the mold, and
also because of no hot water at the house at this time.
Insurance wil pay for a couple of days of that, but it's going
to take longer than that (4 days it's looking like) to get all
this shit done).

This is simple, and it's costing me a bundle... I can only
imagine what the people whose houses were screwed up,
but not completely flooded out, by Katrina are going through.

And now that the pool filter's up & running, and I'm using the
valve for the solar panels again, I notice that there are now
two leaks coming from the solar panels themselves & water is
streaming down the back of the roof when that valve is engaged.

AUUUGGGH!!!!

I don't even want to tell you about the picture window that blew
out during a windstorm about six weeks ago.

Neil, lamenting his circumstances

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