Weekly review and barbaric yawp of angst
Apr. 30th, 2007 07:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neadodsMy review for Accidental Florist is up on Reviewing the Evidence, along with an early mention on the front page.
That's the good news.
The bad news is that being a Responsible Adult sucks.
While watching the guy service the air conditioner (remember that drama from last summer?) I discovered two things: first, that the problem might have been fixed with a simple thing that the guy fixed today instead of a $3000 replacement, and second, I was standing in poison ivy.
Have I ever mentioned how sensitive I am to that stuff? I find out tomorrow the fun way if I washed it off fast enough. In the meantime, M, who ought to be beatified, or at least given a medal, went out and ripped it all out after work tonight.
Then the exterminator (remember the mice?) called and said he'd be dropping by tomorrow to check the outside. I told him that I had what I was pretty sure was a winged ant in a jar, but could he please take a look at it? (Said ant has been sitting in a jar in the freezer for the last few days; fortunately the Mighty M was a biology student and mellow about that kind of thing.)
When I went to put it on the stairs to the cave below my room (it's an extension) I noticed water on the stairs. When I went to touch the pipe that was turning green below the bulging insulation, the insulation shifted... and poured several I'm-not-exaggerating gallons of water on me.
AAAAAIIIIIIEEEE!
No wonder the mildew smell hasn't been getting any better in the bathroom. This was right below my shower. The insulation had probably been soaking up moisture since it was put up. If it wasn't for the bug in the bottle, I probably wouldn't have been down there right after a shower and thus put two and two together immediately.
Long story short, it wasn't a leak in the pipes, it was water getting down the outside of the shower pan and into the hole for the radiator pipe. It can be fixed with a new shower curtain, some rags thrown over the area for a while, and a lot of caulk. I can put up new insulation there too, after the area has had a chance to dry out.
Also, the moral of the story is that if you live in the Washington DC metro area, Victor Gasch is a god among plumbers. Call him, he's in the book. Although he probably won't charge you less and come out at 7:30 at night if you don't live just a few blocks away.
This is the sort of day that could only end in chocolate.
That's the good news.
The bad news is that being a Responsible Adult sucks.
While watching the guy service the air conditioner (remember that drama from last summer?) I discovered two things: first, that the problem might have been fixed with a simple thing that the guy fixed today instead of a $3000 replacement, and second, I was standing in poison ivy.
Have I ever mentioned how sensitive I am to that stuff? I find out tomorrow the fun way if I washed it off fast enough. In the meantime, M, who ought to be beatified, or at least given a medal, went out and ripped it all out after work tonight.
Then the exterminator (remember the mice?) called and said he'd be dropping by tomorrow to check the outside. I told him that I had what I was pretty sure was a winged ant in a jar, but could he please take a look at it? (Said ant has been sitting in a jar in the freezer for the last few days; fortunately the Mighty M was a biology student and mellow about that kind of thing.)
When I went to put it on the stairs to the cave below my room (it's an extension) I noticed water on the stairs. When I went to touch the pipe that was turning green below the bulging insulation, the insulation shifted... and poured several I'm-not-exaggerating gallons of water on me.
AAAAAIIIIIIEEEE!
No wonder the mildew smell hasn't been getting any better in the bathroom. This was right below my shower. The insulation had probably been soaking up moisture since it was put up. If it wasn't for the bug in the bottle, I probably wouldn't have been down there right after a shower and thus put two and two together immediately.
Long story short, it wasn't a leak in the pipes, it was water getting down the outside of the shower pan and into the hole for the radiator pipe. It can be fixed with a new shower curtain, some rags thrown over the area for a while, and a lot of caulk. I can put up new insulation there too, after the area has had a chance to dry out.
Also, the moral of the story is that if you live in the Washington DC metro area, Victor Gasch is a god among plumbers. Call him, he's in the book. Although he probably won't charge you less and come out at 7:30 at night if you don't live just a few blocks away.
This is the sort of day that could only end in chocolate.
