Another childish “ballcock” post

by Brian Enigma on March 15, 2008 3:20pm

in Dear Diary, House, Pictures

This was me, get­ting ready to have fun this after­noon:
Fun on a Saturday
All the house’s wiring is acces­si­ble from the base­ment… except the stuff I needed to get to inspect today, which is in a crawl-space under the kitchen… with what appears to be asbestos wrap­ping pipes and ducts above… and bug pow­der on the ground below…  In ret­ro­spect, I should have dug out my steam­punk gog­gles.  My reg­u­lar safety gog­gles cover the fronts of the eyes, but still allow dust to get in around the sides.

Ear­lier this morn­ing, I *ahem* had fun with my caulk in the bath­room.
Fun with caulk

I just never get tired of say­ing “ball­cock.“
adjustable ballcock

To riff on a theme of (…or, as I like to call it, “pla­gia­rize”…) Brandon’s from a few weeks ago, this flap­per is (mostly) uni­ver­sal.  I was for­tu­nate in that the toi­let is new enough to have stan­dard spac­ings and sizes.
Universal Flapper
Since it’s dif­fi­cult to mea­sure and map out exactly the size and shape of flap­per required, I crossed my fin­gers and bought this half-expecting to have to exchange it for a dif­fer­ent one.  It fit fine.

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