jeff kushner
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Sometimes, we just need to look at a period of time in our lives and just admit, "that sucked". I COULD feel this way about the last 2 weeks but I don't. Let me elaborate....get comfy guys....
After finding the floor in one of the 3 full baths in my home crumbing under the toilet, I pulled the fixtures out and Kerry came over Saturday and began removing the floor for me since I hate working with wood. No big deal because I have 2 other full baths. Well, before we get further into this, I get home Tues and the house is freezing....no heat. I spend an hour or so coaxing my Condensing Gas furnace to run. House warms. Kerry comes over Fri to help complete new bathroom. We begin work Sat morning but after using toilet in 3rd bathroom, I realize that my sewage ejector pump for that bathroom, is not working.
Do you know how you know a sewage pump isn't working? Yeah, you're right. So now I'm down to 1 bathroom and instead of working to get bathrm #2 complete, I'm now reaching through 2 studs, staying under the 24" high platform that was installed OVER the ejector pump & well to9 wrestle this pump out. After a few hours, I manage to get the top off, removing or snapping the 12 bolts holding the top to the well lip. Then with a bit more effort, cut the vent line, release the fernco to the check vlv and I remove the 50lb pump....ugh, this smells great in your home!
While this was going on, I notice it getting cooler and cooler in my basement.....yes, the heat is not working again. So we switch gears after I tote the old pump outside & cover the well with bleach & 2 large trash bags laid over the top..more bleach on top. Now the issue with my furnace is a sensor that gets utilized during the purge cycle.....if it doesn't read "clean air", no starty. As some of you know, the way to clean that sensor is to washout the intake box...yes, with a sprayer or hose. Since my sprayer is half full of poison, we connect the hose to my well pump outlet and I connect the other end to the furnace. Kerry mans the valve handle as I man the business end....after a couple of blasts, we button up the furnace and cross our fingers....ahh, it works perfectly.
Later, we are walking back upstairs and my back goes partially "out". Not quite to the stage of feeling like your legs aren't connected to your thorax but the point just before that happens. I struggle to get into the truck so we can go up and buy the new fixtures. We get what we need but I'm hobbling badly. Pain sucks so I cool it all down with a real large(15x20) gelpack for 45 minutes after we get back to my home. Amazingly, two hours later, it seemed to "go back in". Pain disappeared on Monday while we were off work....thankfully.
Then yesterday, I'm driving home and I get hit by a 20 ton Dump Truck! It's not bad but it was scary how easily his truck moved my 3 ton like it wasn't even there! I felt my truck being "pitted" and rotating directly in front of it so automatically I counter steered into the lane next to me instinctively reasoning I guess that getting AWAY from that dump truck was paramount and anything in that lane was likely to be smaller!
After spending nearly an hour trying to get through to State, AA co and PG co police, I called my ins co so my truck can go to the truck hospital next week. I drop it off Mon to the same guys that fixed it last year when the deer ran into it.
The good news is my new sewage pump should arrive today.......so maybe I can get it installed this evening but I'm a bit sore this morning.....
This COULD have turned out very, very differently.....for someone who can't fix stuff, this would have been life changing as was the truck accident, it COULD have been very bad, very quickly......so that's why I'm happy......
Things could have been different!
Who knows, maybe the Big Guy will find someone else to mess with for a couple of weeks?
jeff
After finding the floor in one of the 3 full baths in my home crumbing under the toilet, I pulled the fixtures out and Kerry came over Saturday and began removing the floor for me since I hate working with wood. No big deal because I have 2 other full baths. Well, before we get further into this, I get home Tues and the house is freezing....no heat. I spend an hour or so coaxing my Condensing Gas furnace to run. House warms. Kerry comes over Fri to help complete new bathroom. We begin work Sat morning but after using toilet in 3rd bathroom, I realize that my sewage ejector pump for that bathroom, is not working.
Do you know how you know a sewage pump isn't working? Yeah, you're right. So now I'm down to 1 bathroom and instead of working to get bathrm #2 complete, I'm now reaching through 2 studs, staying under the 24" high platform that was installed OVER the ejector pump & well to9 wrestle this pump out. After a few hours, I manage to get the top off, removing or snapping the 12 bolts holding the top to the well lip. Then with a bit more effort, cut the vent line, release the fernco to the check vlv and I remove the 50lb pump....ugh, this smells great in your home!
While this was going on, I notice it getting cooler and cooler in my basement.....yes, the heat is not working again. So we switch gears after I tote the old pump outside & cover the well with bleach & 2 large trash bags laid over the top..more bleach on top. Now the issue with my furnace is a sensor that gets utilized during the purge cycle.....if it doesn't read "clean air", no starty. As some of you know, the way to clean that sensor is to washout the intake box...yes, with a sprayer or hose. Since my sprayer is half full of poison, we connect the hose to my well pump outlet and I connect the other end to the furnace. Kerry mans the valve handle as I man the business end....after a couple of blasts, we button up the furnace and cross our fingers....ahh, it works perfectly.
Later, we are walking back upstairs and my back goes partially "out". Not quite to the stage of feeling like your legs aren't connected to your thorax but the point just before that happens. I struggle to get into the truck so we can go up and buy the new fixtures. We get what we need but I'm hobbling badly. Pain sucks so I cool it all down with a real large(15x20) gelpack for 45 minutes after we get back to my home. Amazingly, two hours later, it seemed to "go back in". Pain disappeared on Monday while we were off work....thankfully.
Then yesterday, I'm driving home and I get hit by a 20 ton Dump Truck! It's not bad but it was scary how easily his truck moved my 3 ton like it wasn't even there! I felt my truck being "pitted" and rotating directly in front of it so automatically I counter steered into the lane next to me instinctively reasoning I guess that getting AWAY from that dump truck was paramount and anything in that lane was likely to be smaller!
After spending nearly an hour trying to get through to State, AA co and PG co police, I called my ins co so my truck can go to the truck hospital next week. I drop it off Mon to the same guys that fixed it last year when the deer ran into it.
The good news is my new sewage pump should arrive today.......so maybe I can get it installed this evening but I'm a bit sore this morning.....
This COULD have turned out very, very differently.....for someone who can't fix stuff, this would have been life changing as was the truck accident, it COULD have been very bad, very quickly......so that's why I'm happy......
Things could have been different!
Who knows, maybe the Big Guy will find someone else to mess with for a couple of weeks?
jeff
