Mar 23
When you rent out your house, minor maintenance issues normally go unnoticed until they are huge problems. Apparently, in My Other Houseâ„¢ there was a small leak from the tub spigot that was allowing a small amount of water to go through the wetboard down to the first floor bathroom ceiling. Again, a minor issue really only requiring a little tightening of the spigot and some caulk. However, when ignored for long periods, this problem explodes into something much, much bigger. In this, it didn’t explode, but it certainly fell on my head:
I spent the little section of my vacation time I had to spare re-drywalling the bathroom. While I had all the material and tools in Maryland, I also changed the shower faucet in the first floor bathroom to something much nicer. Ever since I lived there, the old one had annoyed me by sometimes leaking and never having a consistent temperature. Which brings me to a closing question:
Why are all the shower faucets available at Lowes and Homie Depot of the type that don’t let you control the water temperature and pressure?!?
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August 6th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
Some friends of ours are renting a really nice house in College Park, but the nice area of CP across rte 1 from University Park. The house is beautiful, never any problems… Well the owner decided to sell the house, asking a half a million for it. On the day of the first open house, the AC went out, and there was some leak upstairs and the kitchen ceiling fell in- looked like the pics of your bathroom. Must be some ghosts that don’t want the house to sell! Anyway, it reminded me of the bathroom job here.