So ladies, how often has your man said..”I just have a little project to do…it’ll only take me 15 minutes”? And then 2 hours and 15 minutes later he is still deep into his “15 minute” project.
Well yesterday was one such day for us….
Our water hose had developed a permanent kink and so we decided a new no-kink hose was the way to go. As our hose is permanently connected via a reel, there is a certain amount of work involved in replacing the hose. (About 15 minutes worth I was told). We had purchased a no-kink hose at camping world last week and Lee was now ready to install. The old one came off and out fairly easily, and it wasn’t TOO bad replacing with the new one. But…
The new one was too big (diameter) to fit in the reel when rolled up.
So … back to camping world to buy a new hose. They did not have the no-kink in the right size so Lee had to buy a kinkable hose.
Brought it back, took the old-new one off, and put the new-new one on. It has now been way more than 15 minutes! But its all on and ready to be tested. My job is to turn the water on in the kitchen to be sure it is flowing. (tough job but someone’s gotta do it!). Nope, no water!!
So we look for kinks…after all this new one is a kinkable hose. Find what might be the problem – take it all off and straighten out – put back on – no water.
Okay, take it off again and check out the plumbers tape. Maybe we put too much on and it fell inside the hose. Sounds a little far fetched but at this point we don’t know what else to try. So off it comes, on it goes, and …. no water in the kitchen sink.
We are just about to admit defeat and go find our resident expert, Tom, when Lee says…Check the bathroom! Well there’s water just fine in the bathroom! Since it all comes through the same hose, this doesn’t make any sense. Now the problem is in our kitchen faucet. So Lee takes it apart, doesn’t see anything, puts it back together… and voila…we have water in the kitchen!
Our ‘15 minute’ job has taken about 4 hours and 15 minutes!
We never did figure out why when we changed the outside hose the kitchen faucet decided to stop working, but we are going to assume it is one of those little mischievous elves that likes to make living in a moving home such a challenge.
I wonder what ‘15 minute’ project Lee will find for today?
5 comments:
How cute! I love posts like that. We've had many of those "15 minute projects" that last for several hours. However, they weren't necessarily about replacing a hose.
we finally gave in and bought the non-kinking hose from the RV Water Filter Store- expensive, but it's never kinked and Paul's blood pressure has returned to normal, lol. You can buy any custom length you want, too, so its nice.
We've also had some of those "15 minute projects"...and it can be so frustrating. Glad you were able to hang in there & get it up & working again!
What a great laugh I had reading this post. And it is sooo very true. I've learned to add about two hours to any time frame Jim gives me. As we get older I'm thinking I may have to increase that to three or four hours. Glad you finally have water.
Now that's funny! I use to gage John's home improvement projects by how many trips to the hardware store it took.
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