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TIL my plan to fix a leaky outdoor faucet in an hour turned into a 3-day plumbing adventure.
What I thought was a simple washer swap required replacing the entire frost-proof sillcock after I snapped the old one off, a job that took me two trips to the hardware store and about 6 hours of work spread over a weekend because I had to learn how to solder copper pipes from YouTube.
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victorw956mo ago
Yeah, that sounds about right. I ended up just buying a sharkbite fitting for the copper line after my first solder job leaked. It cost a bit more but saved me another trip.
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patriciar496mo ago
Oh man, I know that feeling... my "quick" fix-it jobs always seem to multiply. Last month I just wanted to tighten a wobbly toilet seat and ended up having to replace the whole flange because the bolts were rusted shut... spent my whole Saturday on the bathroom floor covered in... well, you know. It's never just one thing.
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