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Rod Speed

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On Feb 19, 6:50?pm, "Rod Speed" wrote:
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On Feb 19, 4:23?pm, wrote:
On Feb 18, 8:23 pm, "Donna Ohl, Grady Volunteer Coordinator"

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I still feel badly that I didn't replace the plastic drain valve
with the brass ball valve because I was afraid the plastic was not
removable (that's what Sears salespeople said anyway, instilling
FUD in my mind).

Don't bother replacing the WH drain now. Fix the clogged dishwasher
instead.
Replace that factory drain valve in six months when you flush the
WH for your first maintenance interval.

As for that clogged dishwasher, you'll likely have to break the
bricks bricking it in in order to get to the innards.
Good luck. Ask questions. Take advice with a grain of salt.

And post back with your results!

donna is a nice new home owner. before you know it she will be like
most of us long termers, doing what we must, and ignoring drain
valves etc.

all she needs is doing one preventive maintence job that turns a
working whatever into a non functional disaster that costs a fortune
to fix.

i rather imagine most of us have been thru one of those.

kinda like pruning a tree, having a limb fall onto the roof, while
replacing ?damaged shingles fall off roof, hit power line, ripping
it off the side of the house. fortunately the poor fellow didnt get
shocked, or seriously hurt.

but the colateral costs, pay someone to finish tree trimming and
clean up, pay electrician to put service back on house, losts food
in fridge, power was off too long. my friend, spent nearly 2 days in
hospital, sent home on crutches.missed a week work no sick
time.......

this happened to a guy i knew.

a old neighbor decided to replace his bathroom floor. lose
floorboard, ran nail into water line, flood took down kitchen
cieling..

need plumber, new cieling and contracted out bathroom redo.

so he decided cars would be his thing, took air cleaner off to
adjust carbuerator, reved engine, air cleaner housing dropped into
fan went thru radiator.

tow truck, new fan, new radiator, misc repairs, had carb replaced.

new DIYers be careful so we dont add your story to the list

my memorable event

did some plumbing, opened main valve with one connection still open
to flush lines, main valve failed couldnt shut off, had to call
water company who had great trouble finding main valve, as street
had been raised........

could of got arrested so upset i forgot to pay for valve at hardware
store, i just walked out, no register stop, the store owner who knew
me thought it funny, as my shoies went squish squish waterlogged as
i walked out..

just a memorable day for a home repairer.

a buddy of mine in detroit was doing some wiring, turned breaker
back on, all power in building went out, fact all power from
detroit to new york. that big power failure from some years
ago........... wasnt his fault but just imagine

now that was funny!!!!!

Never had even a single one of those, and I physically built the
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new work is safer, you know whats there.

old work is a pain cause you cant know where stuff is, like hidden
water phone and electric lines

I've never had anything like that with previous houses
either, and its easy enough to check for that stuff.