Yay For The Landlord
The landlord came here this morning, about 10:30, for the repairs. He fixed the hot water valve in the cellar, which now needs a working washer to go with it. Then he replaced the flush mechanism (I assume he replaced it), after joking with me “what are you talking about; it’s just fine!” in admiration of my temporary fix.
Then the dishwasher…
Not the trap. Not the drain. As he was about to take the whole mechanism out from under, he noticed the machine has a small hole through the side, low and on the left, which has to be the source of the leak. All we can figure is the first two times we used it, we ran it before going to bed and never noticed because it dried by morning. The third time we were up and around, so we saw what it did.
No fix there. We’re getting a new dishwasher at some point. We told him no rush.
Before I could even remember to say to duck under the phone cord that hangs neck-level across the bathroom entrance, he saw it and asked weren’t there phone jacks in all the rooms. I explained where they were, and that the living room one didn’t work, and he thought it’d be easy to just run wires over the suspended ceiling and put one in the office. After he was done with the dishwasher, he poked around up there and we talked about how best to do it. It should be easier than I thought. Yay!
Even better, that makes me realize it would be easy to run network cable. Wireless makes us nervous, besides saving me money if I don’t have to use it. I can either hardwire a wall jack and plug Deb into it, or run a wire with male ends up this wall, through to the bedroom, and down that wall. I have a few hundred feet of raw cable at the office, along with ends and the relevant tools. I can be sure the landlord won’t mind, as it’s essentially like running phone cable. I’ll probably go with the male cable and not put in a jack, though. Then if we move or stop using it, we can just toss the ends up into the ceiling and no trace unless someone looks up there.
So we luck out, while feeling bad at the same time, getting the ancient dishwasher replaced, and we get a couple other solutions illuminated, plus the two minor repairs.
Someone else in the neighborhood had a linksys
that would overpower our system, so we couldn’t
log on to ours because it would pick up the other router. Also everytime the power went out it was reconfigure. Hard wires work all the time.Posted by on 10/15 at 01:01 PMMy flush chain broke for a second time a few days back. I was sick of the fix it guy coming in and out, so I reconnected it with twist ties. Still working!
Posted by Ith on 10/15 at 05:07 PM
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