Wednesday, November 02, 2016

Nail gunned it!

Ahh the relaxing sound of burbling water right?

Except when it isn't...

...because it's actually pouring out from where the shut-off valve is supposed to be, as well as squirting out of the wall where the guys doing the siding clipped the pipe "that they couldn't see and weren't expecting" with a nail...

To their credit they let me know right away what had happened, and that they were going to turn the water off, run pick up some parts from Home Despot and fix it...

Awesome, no problem! Literally *moments* after I shut the door I had to go to the washroom...

I stuck my head out a few times every hour or so to see how things were going. By late afternoon it sounded like they had shut off the water to practically everything they could find a valve for, just shy of the whole neighborhood... 

There were 4 guys making suggestions, with one of them trying to get a wet/dry vac with a 1.5" diameter hose to suck the water out of 1/4" pipe, clustered around the fifth guy...

I left him to carry on muttering good naturedly about not needing 5 guys and a tenant to help, while trying to solder pipe with cold water slowly burbling out of it...

The silver lining to all of this is that we just might end up with a new shut off valve which I've been wanting to replace anyways... funny how that works!