Your car's fuel pump will only go out when the tank is full... just so it's a major pain to drop the damned tank.

Had a student who was studying to teach auto mechanics tell me that, and it happened exactly as he said it would a few months later.

Inanimate objects like to wait for the most inopportune moment to break. Then they break in the most spectacular way.

I think my 7 cu foot freezer quit this morning.

They're here ripping up the ceiling today. A bonus: the property manager helped me move the washer and dryer to the garage, so that's another item crossed off my moving to-do list.

Eventually have to get your whole house re plumbed especially if you have the original plumbing when the house was built.

But the timing sucks!

It's an old house, late 1800's I think, that was converted into 2 apartments. It's all very Frankenstein's Monster, and the plumbing insane.

We've had 3 different property managers since we've been here and they've all said, "What the...?!" when they first looked at the plumbing. There's apparently tons of extra and crazy pipe work in the cellar that makes zero sense.

I've often wondered if a "friend of a friend's cousin" did the plumbing work for cheap when they split the house up however many years ago.

My landlord is a heck of a nice guy but I don't think he wants to sink the money into getting the whole house replumbed. The property manager has been trying to convince him. It just makes sense. We've had various plumbing issues the entire 5 years we've been here.

I'm moving at the end of May and will be glad to be shut of it. You know it's bad when you keep a stack of dedicated "leak buckets."

a "friend of a friend's cousin" did the plumbing. And wasn't even a licensed plumber to begin with. And no permits were gotten.

I watch the home makeover shows, it what's hidden behind so many walls shouldn't be surprising anymore, but it still is. One of the worst was the makeover duo discovering that there had been a fire, a serious fire some decades back that essentially required they tear down the house nearly to the ground and start over. The teardown should have been done after the original fire, but somehow covering up and plastering over the charred timbers happened instead.

The thought of a house fire is terrifying, and gawd only knows who did the electric work. I've been wanting to move for a while, but it's only recently become possible, finance-wise.

that potential death trap.

my water heater broke on labor day.

so we have to go to the very expensive emergency vet clinic. It's the gods screwing with us for fun.

We spent Christmas Day at the emergency vet a few years ago. The place was packed.


My "favorite" trip to the E vet was the time I accidentally closed the recliner on of the cats at 1AM. They told us, "We're not yet sure of the extent of the damage, but the bill is going to be between $700 and $1500. We need a $700 deposit to continue the exam."



The issue turned out to be a harmless bubble of air between her skin and skull, making her head look grossly misshapen- diagnosed in less than 2 minutes by a non-emergency vet the next morning for $60 office visit. The air dissipated on it's own within 48 hours and she was totally fine.

God hates me. I do my best to hate him back.

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the NE coast of Florida. Walked out to the kitchen and floor covered in water and sand. The water had exploded through the foundation somewhere near the pipes going into the water heater in the garage and forced its way into the house.

Couldn't find the turn off valve for the water going into the house. Found out later it was buried under the sod by the hose spigot. Had to get County out to turn water off at the main, all the time water continued to flood house. Finally got water turned off and by 2AM, with the help of neighbors, most of the water was mopped up.

However, because of the hurricane, could not get hold of a plumber until the following Tuesday, even 24 hr emergency plumbers were hunkered down for the hurricane.

By the time the estimate was done, the work scheduled, insurance adjuster review, mold mitigation company was finished, house replumbed, it wasn't until the end of the following week we finally had running water.

Decided to replumb the house rather than just repairing the leaking pipe. The insurance comapny did send out a leak detection company to try and find the leak, because they will only pay for a pipe repair not a full house replumbing. The leak detection company couldn't guarantee they would pinpoint the leak on the first try, or second try. So it could mean several attempts at jackhammering the slab to locate the leak. Plus our soil wrecks havoc on the copper piping which is laid under the slab in the soil. The salt content in the soil corrodes the pipes. So basically we were advised, once you've had one leak, you'll probably have another. In fact that happened to a neighbor in the community. They just repaired the leak and within 6 months they had another.

So just about 2 weeks without water and we got through it. Bottled water and luckily a pool to draw water for the toilet and to also use as a bathtub. Not the worse thing that could happen certainly, but definitely a distressing situation.

It sounds like a nightmare.

According to my internet-based plumbing knowledge (acquired since we've been in this house, lol), the general consensus seems to be leaks under the slab are the absolute worst.