The $27,000 Toilet Seat - A Funny DIY Story

Article by: Paul Forte

The following incident was relayed to me by a Plumber I know:

I received a call , When Showing Your Home to a Home Buyer from a homeowner asking for someone to come estimate some repairs. , When Showing Your Home to a Home Buyer When I asked the sort of repairs, , How To Select the Ideal Home Weather Station he said it would be too many to enumerate, but much easier if I just came out to the house , Burning Bushes do Well In Solebury Township and looked. I went.

It began like this............
Old Joe wanted to change , A Tankless Water Heater can Save You a Lot on Hot Water Bill his toilet seat, but couldn't get the old one off. So he tried wrenches until he rounded off the nuts (he was turning them the wrong way because they were upside down) and then decided to get his trusty cold , Matching & Co-ordinating Your Home To Make It More Desirable chisel and hammer out. Well, he tapped a bit on it with no success, so he drew back the hammer to smite a mighty blow against the stubborn bolt. In so doing he broke the toilet tank and flooded the area with cold water. , Types Of Shrub To Use In Your Garden This cold water , An Italian lifestyle project gave him a shock and he drew back in a hurry dropping the hammer into the bathtub causing a big chunk of the
porcelain to pop off the tub floor. , Planting Roses In Your Garden

Regrouping his thoughts, he ran down to the basement , Advice about the best opinion witrel="nofollow" h reference to posts and be two floors , Have you considered Fluorescent lighting for your home? below to shut off the water , Fall Garden Chores for Spring Flowering Bulbs to the house, , Advice about the best opinion witrel="nofollow" h reference to posts and be the house , Comforter Choices had no other valves installed when it was built in the 1890's. Meanwhile water , Yard and Garden Trends for 2006 was flooding through the floors , Make your Hardwood Dazzle and had saturated the plaster of the
ceiling below to the point it collapsed into the living room. , Native Trees and Plants For Bedford County Pa

Old Joe then removed what was left of the toilet tank, and tried to remove the bowl from the floor , River birch Trees - A Great Tree For The Buckingham Pa. Area flange. It wouldn't budge either, so out comes the trusty chisel and hammer again, and "WHACK" no more toilet bowl. In the process however, he managed to tear the closet flange from the floor , Matching & Co-ordinating Your Home To Make It More Desirable as well, and since it was attached to a lead closet bend, it torn and now needed replaced too.

He determined that it would be necessary to cut out the tee in the stack where the closet bent was
attached since he had no idea how to repair , Small Leaks Can Become a Big Drain on Your Wallet old lead piping. He thought using that nifty PVC from Home , Building a No Dig Garden Depot would do the trick. He tried to cut the cast iron stack with a hacksaw to no avail, then tried a sawzall, also fruitless, so.... yep, out comes the good old chisel and hammer, but a bigger hammer this time.

He whacks on the stack a few mighty blows and Viola' it splits into several pieces with one tiny segment still holding it all together. He pried the last vestige of solid pipe out of the wall , Planning a Water Garden... with a crowbar and suddenly the remaining section of pipe (the vent going through the roof) lets go and with a mighty crash comes down and out of the wall , Press Release
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ceiling of the living room, , Picnic Tables Available - No Reservations Required continues its downward decent until it hits the TV set, ricocheting off that and through the floor , Press Release
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This was a $27,000 toilet seat replacement.

About the Author

Paul Forte has been in the construction field for over 25 years. For more Do It Yourself , Make your Hardwood floor Dazzle Stories visit:
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