I is no plumber...

So with a semi-wide open weekend, I decided to engage in a bunch of home improvement: cleaning out trash, air filters, and such. One big task was to fix the toilets and change the shower  head. Parts of the inside of the main tank got tore up and the other tank leaked. But those were surprisingly easy to fix (a little adjustment in water pressure and replacing a rubber cover). The shower head was something else...

I bought a new shower / massage unit hat comes with the detachable piece with a hose. To install it, you obviously  have to take off the old shower head. This was much easier said than done. No matter what I had did with the big wrench, I couldn't unscrew it off. I torqued it so much that the shower head pipe started to turn. Of course, that screwed up the tape and sealant used to make the water tight seals. When i rechecked the seal by turning on the shower, *dripdripdrip*

I ended up having to unscrew the showerhead pipe and make sure the main supply pipe in the wall didn't drift away from the opening. I could tell that it wanted to move away from the hole. After shoving coathanger wires into the hole to hold the supply pipe, I ran over to Homo-Depot and got more some pipe replacements and put everything back together. And when I got the shower all hooked up and turned on? Dry as a bone inside. My fear of piles of growing mold inside a wall disappeared.

I'm sure many of you will laugh and say how easy such a repair is, an you're probably right. I guess i just have a phobia of screwing it up and ending up having to get a plumber to tear through my bathroom wall for a simple mistake I'd do.

Anyway... Next Project: Clean and paint the balcony.

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