I hope everyone has been having a good week. It has been a fairly long week but it is almost over.
We have been having water pressure issues in the house. The water has suddenly gotten much higher in pressure. Beth got a gauge from a friend at work that shows it is about 90 psi which is about 10 to high. It is not real bad but it makes the shower feel like one of those message shower heads instead of just a regular one. Nothing else seems to be changed but it has taken a couple weeks to get use to the new pressure. Hopefully it is not a bigger issue.
I also replaced the parts of the toilet in our bath room this week. It was not the first time I had done this but the first with this toilet. I had more issues with it that I ever thought about. I could not remove the valve part by itself. I had to disconnect the tank from the bowl to get to the gasket holding the valve to the tank. When I was taking it off I cracked a portion of the sand for the tank. The valve was attached to the tank not just with the threads but with some sort of adhesive as well. I am not sure if it was a rubber cement or a silicon base but I could not get it to unscrew. I tried so hard the plunger part of the valve broke off. I now had a toilet in 3 more pieces than it should have been in. I ended up at Home Depot with the tank and the newly bought parts attempting to get the bottom valve off of the tank. Judy from plumbing and a young man from the paint department helped me to get the seal off. They both went above and beyond to help out. So something that should have been a hour job took about 2 days to finish. With much fussing and extra work we no have both bathrooms fully functional again.
Gman made the Honor Roll for the first 9 weeks and E got all pluses or better on his report card. I was so proud of both of them.
I hope everyone has a great weekend.
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