Plumbing jobs...

This weekend was dedicated to plumbing jobs...

1. Fix leaking kitchen mixer tap - after starting to take the tap apart a couple of weeks after moving in (it has a serious leak problem in the shaft part), we finally got around to turning the water off to finish pulling it apart and replacing necissary O-rings (well that's what we thought would fix the problem). Anyway we couldn't work out to get it apart anymore than what we already had, and in the process of trying to get it apart, I broke a plastic thingy, which meant we needed to buy a whole new tap! (Peter was at the stage of wanting to just go buy a new tap anyway, seeing as we didn't have a clue how the old one was suppose to dismatle - me breaking it gave him perfect excuse!). So we now have a nice new mixer tap installed - and still don't know how we were suppose to dismantle the old one!
2. Fixing the leaking Little Squirt attachment on toilet - this ended up taken 2 separate trips to Bunnings! At first we thought there was one leak. So after 1 trip to Bunnings to get a new sealing bead to go inside the nut (the same trip as buying the new tap), we fixed that leak... Turned the water back on, it wasn't leaking there anymore, but we discovered another slow leak. We thought the solution was lack of pluming tape at another join, turned water off, added tape, turned water back on...water was now spurting out - giving Ben a shower (he had the job of watching if the leak was still there). Dismantled join again - I noticed a rubber washer was missing (must have fallen out and got lost in the move), so 2nd trip to Bunnings to get replacement washer. Now it is all fixed and not leaking at all!
3. Fixing kitchen drain pipe - you can read the details of this one here.
4. Cleaning gutters - being Autumn and having a couple of large deciduous trees in our yard, means that gutters need to be cleaned about once a month or so at the moment. So Peter got up on the roof and did the job (we have just had a whole week of rain, so this highlighted the need for it to be done now) and in the process discovered one of our down pipes is broken and needs fixing!

So the final outcome of this weekend of plumbing activity is:

• Peter has declared he never wants to become a plumber!
• We will be spending some time next weekend doing MORE plumbing jobs - related to jobs #2 and #4 from this weekend.

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