Plumbing, wood floors and sheet rock...

Every week I try to spend one day working on my new (very old) house.

A few weeks ago Julia's dad came and we spent a few days sheet rocking the living room. Two weeks ago I started trying to clean the wood floors in that same room (getting no where fast with that job).

Last week I installed a dishwasher. Never done that before, but it went in alright. Took me most of the day, but I got it in. The only problem was that our bad hot water pressure (which makes for warm, not hot, showers) wasn't good enough to make the dish washer work.

So my project this week was to replace a few clogged connectors under the house to improve that water pressure. I ended up trying to do this on a Saturday and ran into some problems, so I had to pick it up this past Monday.

Before it was said and done I had replaced 20 to 30 feet of hot water lines (usually just cutting out the old galvanized ones out with and saws all), and spent over 13 hours on my back under the house.

End result...the hot water pressure is now as good as the cold...the dishwasher works, and we have enough hot water pressure to take hot (not warm) showers.

And I hate working on plumbing now more than ever...

Charles Barkley's Fave Five...

Have you seen the cell phone commercials with Charles Barkley and Dwane Wade??? Basically Wade is trying to figure our ways to get Barkely to put Wade in his fave five. He offers to let him wear his championship ring, he sits in Barkley's TV room and watches highlights of Barkley's playing days etc...

Well this is my attempt to keep up my blog to get back on Doug Gregg's list of Bloggers.

I'm tryin...Come on Doug...Please!!!