Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Beginning the Renovations......drama after drama

Today is Tuesday the 11/11........
I had received and call from mere male yesterday that he & his brother Billy, had started on one of the bedrooms to see what needed to be done.
Firstly they had to access the flooring under the old carpet where water had apparently filtered through from the laundry by previous tenants.
As they pulled the carpet back and exposed the floor board it did show a certain amount of rot where part of the flooring needed to be replaced.
They went to town and purchased the required timber flooring etc and started on it today.

As they pulled up the old flooring, part of the wall on the side where the water had filtered through, had to be broken away.

This exposed the copper water pipes, where much to their disgust, old plumbing works obviously not by a plumber had surfaced.
Where some of the copper piping was narrow leading into thicker copper piping and then back to thin piping hence creating the problem.
We were perplexed as to why the water pressure was so bad.
Where the pipe had been too long, some one had bent it in a 45 deg.angle cutting of the natural flow of water restricting the pressure.

After we had purchased expensive thicker hosing to run from the header tank up the hill and back to the house, thinking that would increase the flow, did we find we were wrong and now we know why.....

Now until a plumber attends works in that bedroom cease ....

2 comments:

The Captain said...

Absolutely fascinating Trixie!. Well written, witty, sarcastic (ly funny)and emotional. We feel we're walking through the property with you both.

Niaroo creation said...

Excellant and I am thrilled you are all reading,hugs