Plumber

Today I was a plumber. I used the thin white tape and the little leather strappy thing that you tighten stuff with. I laid on the floor and turned rusted nuts. I used "Liquid Wrench" (which smells super good by the way) and most importantly I got to pour anitfreeze down a whole bunch of drains.

Plumbing gets you wet. I started working at 8:00 and by 9:30 my pants were wet. You turn the water off and you would expect that you wouldn't get wet, but not true. Water comes out of everything. It comes out of the shower heads, the shower temp controls, the sinks, the drains, and everywhere else that it possibly could. The perfect moment came when I was taking a shower head off and WHAMO, water in my eye!

When you winterize a toilet here are the steps:

1. You use the strappy tool to take off the flush-o-meter (the top of the toilet)
2. You take out the little plunger thing.
3. You use a bailer thing (a pump with a hose attached) to take out all the water in the bowl
4. You use a turkey baster to take the water out of the flush-o-meter.
5. You pour 2 cups of marine/rv antifreeze in the flush-o-meter area.
6. You should see anitfreeze come out in the bottom of the toilet.

See! Moderately good at winterizing toilets. Real plumbers would laugh. Some of you are probably trying it now.

Do I know how to plumb (is that the right word?)? NO! I have learned that you turn, jump on, twist and flail until you get the heavy steel or iron stuff to do what you want. I am an expert at Bradleys (those round or semi-round sinks they have at schools). I can fix a foot pedal or a soap dispenser...no problem.

And did you know that you have to change out those O-ring things every year or at least every other year? And that copper tubing is good, unless you live in the middle of a cold ass tundra and then not so good...it sweats...and freezes...go with pvc. And that snakes are awesome! You can use them for EVERYTHING!

Today I was a plumber.

Grade: B+