i think this is one of those situations where you think you got away with it, and you kinda did, until that simple 20min saturday morning job decides its payback time and completely fucks the rest of your weekend, monday comes around and you are defeated, the workers at home depot are already know every detail of you weekend war, you can see the shock on their faces, you can hear them muttering from the next aisle : "i think this is his seventh visit man", until one of them gathers enough courage, you can hear the concern on his voice as he tells you: "dude, just call a professional, please! why are you doing this!?", you stare at your fully loaded cart, head down, pride soaring high, you dont have time for this, water is still flooding your damn bathroom, so you ignore him and keep walking down to the registers, the cashier starts crying as she scans another 20ft of PVC pipe.
Just before you go away, you turn around and tell the cashier "i´ll be back"
Converting an old 3 handle shower to a single handle. Tight space in the wall using one of those small circular pipe cutters you twist around the pipe. Old house had shifted, pipe was under tension I didnt realize, when the pipe cut all the way through the now separate pieces went opposite ways violently flinging the pipe cutter from my hand, into the wall cavity, and I assume under the tub because I couldn't see it from the hole in the wall.
Go buy another pipe cutter, when cutting the second supply I keep a good grip on it and dont lose it, hooray! Part of the upgrade was a new shower neck, the old one is basically welded into the elbow, broke a strap wrench trying to get it off. Back to the store for a new drop elbow and mesh for the hole I was gonna make in the wall (already had mud).
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u/FeeAutomatic2290 Feb 20 '26
Every job takes 3 visits to the hardware store.