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A shiny new water intake valve

For at least the past year, the water intake to the upstairs toilet has been corroded. I noticed because the flapper on the back of the toilet was leaking just slowly/quietly enough to be annoying and I couldn’t turn off the water to the toilet to replace it. In addition to the apparent paranoia about the water running (don’t you HEAR that? doesn’t it bother YOU?) I then began to envision scenarios where the toilet began to leak, and of course we wouldn’t be able to turn off the water, and we’d have a real mess on our hands. Or, the corrosion would progress to the point of an actual leak, and we’d come back from a nice weekend vacation to find a flooded house. It’s not actually too unreasonable because I did in fact come back from Christmas vacation in 1997 to find that my apartment was flooded (different cause but same outcome).

At any rate, I’ve put “call the plumber, get the valve replaced” on Brian’s to do list, but he hasn’t seen the impending doom and thus it’s not a very high priority compared to, say, keeping our clothes cleaned and ironed or making sure we have food to eat. One Sunday afternoon at football, I spotted a moment of weakness that could help my cause, and I agreed to drive home if he committed to bumping this task up to Priority 1 and calling the plumber that week. He did, but then our furnace woes started, so the plumber visit didn’t actually get scheduled.

Yesterday the plumber replaced said valve assembly. I came home, immediately went to the bathroom, turned off the valve (very smooth!), giggled gleefully, flushed, noted that the water did not flow to refill the tank, turned the water back on, saw that the water did then flow, and then hopped up and down and clapped to show my happiness at disaster averted. Brian shook his head, glad that I appreciated his efforts, but questioning why in the world his wife was so crazy.
I wanted to include a picture of the excellent plumbing work and the shiny new valve but so far that part of the blogging is in Brian’s court.

Comments

Comment from Corinne
Time: March 11, 2007, 1:52 pm

Love it!! I’m crazy too.