Gah, I will never stop coughing ever again. A holiday weekend is the worst time to get sick. It's not *so* bad that I want to go to urgent care just to get the good cough medicine, but it's driving me nuts.
I even asked Tim if he had any unused painkillers with codeine in them (because when I had pleurisy and even the good cough medicine wasn't working, my doctor prescribed codeine, and since I hate cough syrup, he just prescribed Tylenol 3 with codeine in it). He dug around in the medicine cabinet and came up with some Vicodin (which is hydrocodone, not codeine). I told him it wouldn't stop my cough, but maybe I could crush it and snort it and then I wouldn't CARE if I was coughing.
I think he thought I was serious for about 20 seconds.
sarameg, that's how I got the tool to turn off the water at the main, too (although my guy was explicitly "go get one of these and I'll show you how to do this so you don't have to call me" about it). Damn good thing, too, because either I don't have an inside full house valve or I can't remember where it is, so that's really the only way I can do repairs.
Sorry for the sickness, Tep.
And then I went to Ace and bought one for $10 and will never have to pay a plumber to do that again in an emergency.
Yes, the main shut off thingee is essential. Don't need it often, but oh boy when you do.
Teppy, I hope you find relief soon.
Timelies all!
Back from Balticon. Good con. Tired now.
That is also the way I found out about the water tool thingy, which is currently somewhere in my utility room. I think current code calls for a shut-off valve where the water enters the house. My house predates many useful code changes.
I have a shutoff valve inside the house, 3 feet from where it comes in the wall. It just doesn't move.
OK, time to collect my things and go drink wine and eat grillings. And pee at someone else's house!
Mine doesn't have a shutoff valve at all. At the time I learned this, my kitchen sink also didn't have a shutoff valve. Home ownership is so much fun.
ISTR finding my shutoff valve once, but maybe that was a dream? Or maybe it was under the house where it would be harder to get to than the main. In any case, I couldn't find it last time I needed one, if it exists.
Blueberry muffins=yum.
I have lived with no shutoff which was not a good plan. However, the places that have had them, usually frozen. The problem is that when you have a burst of some kind in the house it is something you really want to stop quick.
I had a really frozen pipe at the Otter Lake house. When we turned the water back on in the summer it was water all over the bathroom. The pipe was in the ceiling and was copper but it had an ever so slight dip in it and the ice split the pipe. Fun times.
Full copper refit!
I know where my water shutoff is. I feel like this means I win at home-ownership or something.
