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Current mood:  quixotic
Category: Jobs, Work, Careers Finally done...
Why can nothing be easy? This house has all 3/8 compression fittings to connect all the water in the house. all T's and Valves are 1/2.. WHY?
Here's the whole story.
Mom wanted granite counter tops. ok...
New sinks. ok...
A new Dishwasher. ok...
So out the old stuff gets ripped, in the new countertops go. Oh wait... I forgot. There is no shut off valve for the existing dishwachers water feed.
No SHUTOFF? i had to shut the water off to the whole house, disconnect the old dishwasher, All I had was a 3/8 flex hose with a compression fitting end. And needless to say there is no 3/8 compression to 3/8 compression shutoff valve in home depot or lowes. So I had to rig something, I bought all sorts of connectors and nipples and valves and all that, 60 minutes in home depot... only to get most of the way home and realize I planned it wrong. I had all the stuff to put a shutoff on the dishwasher. not very helpful since the water is not COMING from the dishwasher. so back to home depot for more fittings and junk. FInally I get that rigged. A backwards 3/8 comprssion to 1/2 pipe with a nipple to a 1/2 pipe to 3/8 compression flexible hose...
There's a day of my life I want back.
OK, time to hook up the sinks... bathroom first...
The faucet doesn't fit through the 1 1/2 inch granite in the bathroom... well it does barely... after a week.. a whole WEEK, of thinking and trying to buy something, I get out the dremel and grind down the faucet mounting washers enough so that it holds it, and still allowes the hose to tighten... Hook up the drain, and bamm leak. Apparently the drains with the pop up stopper, come in 3 pieces... not two as the directions would indicate... bastards... take it all apart and teflon tape the mysterious third connection... and it works. Whew...
The best is yet to come....
The kitchen....
Mom wants the ice maker hooked up, and a sink side filtered water dispenser. I figure I can filter the ice maker and water tap, with the same filter, just T the 1/4 inch hose... that was the easiest part of the project... it goes down hill from there... Putting the faucet in requires the dexterity of a circus performer... and I figure I can save some aggravation by hooking up the Sprayer and tap feed line before mounting the faucet handle. good idea.. but it took me an hour to try to get the damned mounting nut over the connections... then there is this fitting that is supposed to go on the cold water line to turn off the water so you can change the filter... well if didn't fit. 1/2 inch pipe... to a 3/8 compression.. TO home depot for an hour to find there is no such adapter.. or hose.. or anything... I need 3 connectors and a length of 3/8 to 3/8 hose that only comes in 4 foot lengths to hook this bastard up. home again and rig it all up to find leaks...
... are you getting the point this isn't going well...
I tear it all apart to retape, and re tighten things... all with the dexterity of a circus performer... and at 320lbs a contortionist, I am not... maybe I'm that guy that gets shot in the belly with a cannon... but that's about it...
all that and still it leaks...i rip it all down again.. at which point i realize the original valve the filter came with would work if I put it on upside down... no hose... no 3 fittings... just 1 upside down shutoff valved tap. So I re hook, and it leaked a bit, but i put "the beans" to it with a wrench and it squeezed out 1 last drop.. and I haven't seen another since.
Then finishing up the dishwasher... don't ya know the drain hose isn't long enough... I few pipe clamps, and another length of hose.. and finally i'm done.
I am not a plumber. I can plumb, but I type on a keyboard for a living... I prefer it...
:P
-allenkll
P.S. if you need to know what fittings home depot and loews have that may or may not fit 3/8, 1/4, 1/2; and are Pipe or Compression fitting.. I can probably tell ya, I have a PH.d in useless fittings...
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