Well we are back in our home. Although we are living out of boxes, and all of our belongings are basically shoved into the center of each room, there is still no place like home. The painters have said they will be finished on Thursday, but they will have to come back the following week to do touch ups. So hopefully we will be sitting up our Christmas tree next weekend.
So I tackled a huge project this weekend, and reaffirmed a lesson I learned long ago. If it looks easy and simple, it will never work for me. I replaced our cast iron and galvanized stack that ran from our kitchen sink. I had read that they make a rubber gasket donut to put in the cast iron hub, then thread your pvc pipe into it. Well I bought all my items. Got to work on the project. 45 minutes later I head the old lead packing chiseled out, and took the cast iron pipe out. Cleaned the hub and grabbed the donut. Low and behold, the donut did not fit. We had an odd sized hub on our cast iron pipe. No donut would fit it. So I had to find a supply place, and buy oakum and plastic lead and actually set the pipe like the old style. Well a nice and simple project turned into a day and a half project. But eventually I got it replaced, tied our washing machine drain line into it, and no leaks!
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