An honest plumber

I had mentioned yesterday that I'm suffering through some water issues in my basement in the form of slowly leaking pipes, one of which is a leak from the main water cutoff valve for my entire house. Not good. My friend Becky had some work done on the drain for her bathroom sink by a plumber she said charged a reasonable rate and did a good job. I got his number from her and called him today. The guy actually told me what I could try myself to fix it over the phone. I thought the valve would have to be replaced, but it turns out that tightening a nut fixed the damn thing. I felt kind of stupid, but was so relieved that I won't have to drop a couple hundred or more $$ on the issue. I'm also relieved that this guy was an honest enough person to just tell me how to fix it myself instead of charging me $50 or $100 just to show up, then charge another $50 in labor to tighten a nut. Not only that, but I was able to take this newly discovered knowledge and fix another problematic water valve in the basement. I still have a very slowly leaking pipe down there, but it's dripping into my laundry sink, so that is at the bottom of my priority list right now.

So if you're looking for an honest plumber who did good work for a reasonable price for one person and didn't even charge another, drop me an email.

Unfortunately in the 6 years I have lived in this house, every summer brings a new water issue in my laundry room. With this latest one, I realized it makes utterly no sense to keep the ugly, dirty red carpet in that room, so I ripped out about half of it this morning and hauled it out to my trash can.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go back to nursing a sore throat brought on by an end of summer cold. I hope to return to poop and vagina talk in the coming days.