Homeowners 101

[Medios]

After having a raccoon get into my house I decided to find out the problem. Well where they attached the bathroom/laundry room to the house was a full wall space where anything could crawl up and get into the ceiling of the the bathroom. The animal eventually ate its way through the ceiling tiles and comes down in our laundry room to find food. Well we started closing the door in there but the pantry is in the same room so it just rummages for food there.

Today I crawled under the house to measure and cut some boards to fill this section where the two walls connect. Everything was cool with the first two boards. So there is this wad of piping under there. Its like a rats nest except worse. Pipes going every way wrapped in fiberglass wall insulation held on with duct tape. So I'm crawling thru and push up on this rat nest of pipes and snap. So now im under the house with a 5/8 plastic line that feeds my bathroom in 2 pieces resulting in a quick pool of water. I crawled out from under the house like I was under barb wire in Nam. Run out to the front of the house where the water meter is supposed to be. Leaves and garbage from the winter got it covered. So I dig around where I think it is and finally get to it, damn I need a wrench just to open it. Get a wrench turn it off. I go back to the opening where I get under the house and theres about six inches of water at the opening. I said **** it and crawled back under there with my remaining boards to fix the hole.

Well the animal can't get into my house now.

But the water is shut off.

So now since I can't do anything half-@$$ I plan on repiping part of the downstairs bathroom. The idiot who hooked it up ran 1 1/8 cold water all the way to the house underground then put a reducer on it to 5/8 to feed the house. No wonder I don't have any pressure. I guess he thought if he hooked up 20 lines to one 5/8 line it would increase water flow. What a moron. Now I have to run about 20 feet of pipe in a 2 foot crawlspace laying in several inches of water.

Did I mention my mortgage is cheaper than rent?

Its not.

[Leaf]

Its a good thing ur handly!!!

Your mortgage is cheaper then were I live for the same sq footage.

1480 sq mortgage with prop tax & escro = $1020.00 per month.

[jezer]

Last time I read/saw something like this I was watching that show home improvement.

Houses are getting insanely expensive at the moment. Where I live the rent is about the same as what leaf said... and that's the lower level. Interest rates are 9%, and houses prices start at about 400k. It can take months to get a rental property. Whats worse... is things are getting worse.

[Mosaix]

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[jezer]

Sounds like Mike’s got an epic mob living under his house...

look
The Racoon under Mike's house is here, gnawling on a pipe.

l racoon
A grumpy worn critter… Blah, blah, blah he’s gonna chew your head off… rar rar rar

Held Low < A piece of broken water pipe… It has a slow glowing aura! >

gt Pop!

con raccoon
You ARE Mad!

The Racoon under Mike’s house growls at you and attacks!
The Racoon under Mike’s house viciously massacre’s you with his bite!
The Racoon under Mike’s house viciously massacre’s you with his bite!
The Racoon under Mike’s house viciously massacre’s you with his bite!
The Racoon under Mike’s house viciously massacre’s you with his bite!
The Racoon under Mike’s house utters the word, “ubhaltkd ashdf”
A huge rat suddenly appears!
A huge rat suddenly appears!
A huge rat suddenly appears!
A huge rat suddenly appears!
A huge rat suddenly appears!

Waterbreath Up!

Just don’t let Enea name it… it will be stupid…

[Medios]

I hit a triple stab on the raccoon. Won't have to worry about him anymore.

As far as the piping goes. I decided to run the main in 3/4 since thats the size it comes out of the ground with. Then im just going to tee off my run outs to the 1/2 that is already there. I got the bathroom done tonight. But alas I will have to 2 run this fatty. I actually got the water turned back on so I could take a shower. The downstairs bathroom isnt hooked back up tho.

News at 11.

Edit: Just to clarify I got 2 bathrooms and I took a shower upstairs.

[jezer]

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