Within reach
Posted on August 30, 2007 - Filed Under Housing |
The house is so close to nearing completion, I can taste it.
As usual, there were some snags. Nothing in home renovation is ever super easy. Especially when one contractor takes over for another.
I do have one "good luck" story to share.
When working in the house last weekend, I tried to turn my radio on. None of the sockets in the living room, save one, seemed to be working. Upon his arrival, the new electrician was tasked to find out why these sockets weren’t working.
Come to find out, no new wiring was ever run to those sockets. For some reason, only one was done. I was curious: what exactly did I pay for the first time around?
While the electrician was under the house, he noticed something. Or rather he noticed something missing.
When the bathtub was installed, all of the plumbing was present. The copper lines for hot and cold water, the plumbing for the toilet. All of the drain work was there.
But the drain was never connected to the bathtub after it was installed. If the electrician hadn’t noticed when he was under the house, my new tenants would have created a lake underneath the house every time they showered. And no one would have been any the wiser.
When I witnessed this for myself, I nearly came unglued. Now someone could argue and say "But yeah Cliff the plumber was so busy and when you changed contractors he hadn’t had a chance to finish it?"
The last time I saw the previous plumber, he had spent half a day building me shelves for my laundry room. Shelves I did not want nor ask for. I was forced to wonder why he was tasked to do that, rather than connect the drain work for the bathtub.
I will make September 1.
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I can’t help but laugh sometimes. It’s amusing…
In the underside of the house open to the outside? Here in Phoenix, anything copper has a high risk of being stolen due to high copper prices. But it’s a good thing this was discovered!
I have heard copper is something frequently stolen. I don’t know of anyone who has had that happen to them but there are enough stories around to make the allegation true.
Yes, I’m much relieved it was discovered. I think it would have been worse had it been a toilet. ICK!!