Shan, bread looks good. I hope your pain subsides soon.
I was so sore after crawling under the house I could barely move. Mom woke me up around midnight again (she mostly seems to do that without fail when I have to get up early in the morning). I ended up sleeping in until almost 10. Got up, went into town (too sore to make it to the post office), picked up my friend, went to tractor supply, got some tools, headed home only to realize we forgot to get some more fittings, back into town to hardware store-- they were out of most of the stuff so we had to improvise. Back to the house & friend cut a couple old connections & capped them. Turned on water and at first thought cold water wasn't running but I realized my brother had accidentally turned the tub handle the wrong way so it was fully open. Closed it and then toilet filled. I also had to shut off the outside water to the cow's waterer to let the cistern fill more. Water heater filled up after I shut off the waterer and the tub. Water worked in the kitchen sink.
I remembered that there had been some sort of rounded plumbing box with a cover and I knew the cover broke & it had filled in but I couldn't remember exactly where it was. I told my friend about it (wish I had remembered the day before. He found it and dug it up. We could clearly see 2 lines going in.
Friend is still sore from yesterday. He got zapped rather badly by an exposed 220v line (I think to the air conditioner). It made him bounce up, hit his head, and lose control of his bladder & he's still feeling bad from it. If I had known about it, I would have cut the power off. So many exposed wires under there, it irritates me. I need to shut power off, find them, and wrap them in something so that can never happen again (and so pets can't get fried). I had warned him about wires under there but he didn't see that one.
Since there are two lines going in to the house-- one for the water heater and the other for cold, my friend wanted to splice the cold one in with the hot one to increase pressure (well, to the cold line going to the heater). I think it's best to keep them separate so I suggested finding the 2nd line where it comes out of the ground, cutting it off, covering it to keep dirt out, then letting me trace the pipe to where it goes into the house. He can then tape PEX pipe (after we straighten it out) to the end of the cut off pipe, I can cut it off where it goes in, and I can then use it to pull the pex over. Hopefully I can get it to where he needs it to splice in to for all the cold water. I also want to add shutoffs in some places just in case. I wish there was room in that little box just outside but it's too cramped and the pipes are stacked on each other. Not sure where they splice underground because the well only has one pipe going out to the house.
Anyway, friend was too sore to do too much & I decided to get him food & take him home so he could rest. We've agreed that we will take the next several days to recover & then go for round 4. Another friend will be joining to help.
It's all 3/4" though.
Friend is having some trouble with the plumber he hired to unclog his drains (after the kid who was dumped there flushed a roll of tp- kid is no longer there). There are only 2 local plumbers. Douglass & Paul. Douglass never returned my friend's calls. Paul came out and couldn't unclog it with a snake so he told my friend to pour "liquid fire" down the drain. I believe it's sulfuric acid. Paul told him if the liquid fire didn't clear it that he'd come back and take care of it. Well, it didn't work. Friend scheduled the plumber to come out several times & each time the guy no-showed. Each time he promised "come hell or high water" he'd be there. He's bunked on him 5 times so far.
Friend is also having problems with his grandfather continuing to harass him. Old man is staying at the hotel adjacent to where my friend works & since my friend has been refusing to go outside when the old man rolls up to his house and lays on the horn, he has been searching the parking lot at the casino for my friend's truck & then parking next to him or idling nearby to wait for him to come out of work. When he comes out the old man hollers at him to do stuff for him-- things like "You need to come get my clothes and wash them!" No asking. Just demanding. Friend has not been wanting to go to work bc of it. He changed his phone number so the old man couldn't call him anymore. My friend has no intention of getting his grandfather's laundry and washing it for him-- especially since the old man wouldn't loan him a dime when he needed help the most & constantly expects him to do stuff for him for free & never compensating him for gas or anything.
The upside is, my friend actually made a little $ off of the whole GameStop thing.
My brain is jumping around & I need to get some sleep.
