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The “Joy” of Plumbing

Sorry, it’s been a while since I rapped at ya.  Ten internet points for anyone who can name that reference. Let’s talk about the giddy thrill of home plumbing projects!  I’m going to spoil the fun right now by saying

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Scheisse Geyser

There are places you don’t ever want to go, and times you don’t want to leave the comfort and relative security of your living room.  Yet last night at 9 PM I was down in my crawlspace facing a sump

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Why I Hate Plumbing

  Just look at that thing.  It used to be a conveyance for wastewater out of a bathroom lavatory and into the sewer.  Now it’s an obscene rusted mess that had to be hammered out of another pipe like a

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What’s Handmade These Days?

Have I made anything by hand recently?  Why yes, thanks for asking.  I made a repair.  Plumbing, to be precise.  After a day at work where our office toilets stopped flushing down and began flushing up, causing our alley and

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Handmade Plumbing

The spirit of this blog is the joy you can get from creating something with your own two hands.  Whether it’s food, crafts, art, or something more mundane, like the plumbing between the pool pump and pool heater.  Last week

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How to Destroy Your Bathroom, Pt. 3

I really ought to rename this series “How to Rebuild Your Bathroom”.  That’s right, Uncle F#@k-Up, as the spinmeisters say, is trending upward.  Demolition of the bathroom finished on Friday afternoon with the removal of a nasty clogged pipe.  How

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How to Destroy Your Bathroom, Pt. 2

Gentlemen, listen to your wives.  Last Friday I was reviewing my weekend plans:  buy a sledgehammer, destroy the sink cabinet and countertop, clean up the mess, and draw Xs through the next five hundred weekends that I’d be doing the

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Dandy, dandy start to the day.  I get up early to be ready for an office-wide breakfast at 7.  Just about to get on the highway and see I’m out of gas.  Fine, I drive down another block to a

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Turkey and Trouble

Here’s a question for all my readers:  what’s the one day that Americans will make the most homemade food and create the most dirty dishes of any day in the year?  Wait for it…Thanksgiving!  Good, the second questions is:  what

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