Don't rush it, work smarter not harder!

[Anonymous 42]

This is an update on my pluming disaster and why I didn’t rush it! Tear everything apart without thinking.

Anyway, the pluming I built a spiral staircase around buried in a corner had no freezable solution or space to work on, it’s ran with central vac, steel air line, heating oil line, two thermostat wires and boiler feed line (1/2 copper) all buried behind the finished staircase. After much deliberation and removal of the CV system and much of the 1/2 copper (for room to work in the narrow corridor of cluster pipes buried behind the stare case) it came to me how solder in new pluming around the corner buried behind the staircase!

PLASTIC!

I dug up some excess pex tubing left over from the hydronic heating system. I’m snaking plastic down the narrow corridor, around the corner and to the heating system if any more breaks are detected behind another wall of s~~~ burying EVERYTHING!

It’s just that throughout my life I found the slow approach to something frustrating and complicated always yielded a less costly and labor intensive solution! Otherwise a saws-all taken to finish wood was the only answer adding countless hours of repair time, labor, material, and effort!

Here’s another solution literally “outside the box”. I lost a lighting circuit due to a loss in the neutral wire’s conductivity, somewhere behind a finished wall of hardwood cladding there was a break in the wire. My temporary solution was to jump the ground over to the broken neutral and complete the circuit that way, but making a dangerous two pole circuit by skirting the broken wire.

Instead of destroying the hardwood and removing the hydronic baseboard heater and pluming, my brother came up with a “work smarter, not harder solution”!

He suggested I go outside, take off a little siding, cut out a strip of plywood behind the wiring and make the repair OUTSIDE THE BOX!

So remember this one thing, don’t rush anything!

Mind work is much less labor intensive and cost effective than a mad dash to BULL WORK!

Take the BULL by the horns of intellect and RIDE HIM! Right over that c~~~y little princess!

[CthulhuParticipant 698]

Interesting solution. Sounds like you got it fingered out.

Why vote for a lesser evil? #ICETHEMOUT

[Anonymous 42]

Cthulhu wrote:

Interesting solution. Sounds like you got it fingered out.

Time figured it out, countless times all it takes is patience, when I get frustrated with something and blinded with anger, I shutdown and walk away and put it off until I’ve had time to think!

It’s also good not to rush things for safety sake! That’s how you loose some fingers! Or even worse! It only takes a second to dye! A minute spent thinking can save your life!

[Anonymous 14]

Spiral staircases built around plumbing? Got any other interesting builds going on in there? I always wanted a split level house with a fireman’s pole going down into the garage myself.

Your point about mind work is spot on. I am not much of a mechanic, but I can do anything if I look at it long enough and figure it out. I was taking apart VCRs at 10 and fixing them. No Gargamel here, but if I took the time to look at something and think about it I could usually get the job done.

[Anonymous 42]

Anonymous wrote:

but I can do anything if I look at it long enough and figure it out.

I cheat and scour the internet for all my answers! Everything from nuts to soup in in here! Just gotta look around! Look around long enough and you’ll be able to build an atomic bomb!

[bladeParticipant]

Wise words

THE PLANTATION HAS NOW TURNED INTO THE KILLING FIELDS . WOMAN ARE NOW ROLLING CAMBODIAN STYLE .

[Anonymous 42]

Ahhh! YES! I’m finally looking at wrapping up the pluming job! The remainder of the system just passed a pressure test!

Looks like I’ll have water in the garage again! However, not too much water with ice waterfalls coming out the exterior walls like before! El Problemo eliminado!

I hope you guys are having a great day! I know I am! I’m just happy as a clam my heating system had enough antifreeze to handle the arctic invasion! That would have COST ME DEARLY! Boiler, Rocket stove, heat exchangers, hydronic heating lines buried in the concrete floor! You get the picture! Potential 10s’ of THOUSANDS IN DAMAGE! Same with the AMX! CRACKED BLOCK? OMG!

ANTI FREEZE IS A NORTHERN”S BEST FRIEND!!! I think feminists drink the s~~~!

[harpo-my-“SON”Participant 2410]

MGtower wrote:
ANTI FREEZE IS A NORTHERN”S BEST FRIEND!!!

The dog is best friend here
HA! HA! Down south bailing wire and duct tape are a close second.

I was bound to be misunderstood, and I laugh at those who misunderstand me. Kind mockery at the well intentioned, but unfettered cruelty towards those would be prison guards of my creative possibilities. This so as to learn as much from misunderstanding as from understanding. Taking pleasure in worthy opponents and making language fluid and flowing like a river yet pointed and precise as a dagger. Contradicts the socialistic purpose of language and makes for a wonderful linguistic dance, A verbal martial art with constant parries that hone the weapon that is the two edged sword of my mouth.

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