We are ....what... 8 months into home ownership. Life was bound to start happening I suppose. Please excuse my dishes in the sink. My dishwasher is just for looks because it doesn't ACTUALLY work and the pipes under the sink are turning my cabinet into an indoor pool.
I hustled over to Target and scooped up a "dish pan" to start doing my dishes in the tub. Judgement free people. Judgement free. Of course in my normal way I wandered through the whole store in record time and picked up a few things like 70% candles and a MOS (mark out of stock) throw blanket, and cat food. Come to think of it that was actually WHY I went to Target - the cat food........not the dish pan - that was an "after thought".
Just a hint though way off topic.....scan EVERYTHING at Target - when an item goes MOS, that means the store was supposed to send it back to HQ, when that doesn't happen it gives the consumer (you and I) the opportunity to score items up to 95% off - no lie. WHHHHEEEEWWWW.
OK, here is the symptoms of my pipe problems. Periodically the sink will make a thudding noise when the facet is turned on - after a few googling sessions I have found the term "water hammer".....some called it a pressure issue, some called it air in the pipes - fact of the matter is I have no IDEA and it is really starting to have a trickle effect of more issues, pun INTENDED.
Prior to the water hammer. I managed to kill my garbage disposal - apparently its not actually equipped to handle lemon quarters - so my efforts to disinfect and freshen were, we will say - counter productive. WHO KNEW. Once the GD died I started having issues with the water draining from the sink and located a leak where the dishwashers waste tube was attached prior to me owning the home. I had a my guy (associate, colleague, contractor) he tightened it up and we were good to go for a bit. I still had to plunge my sink from time to time and the dripping stopped momentarily.
Fast forward to NOW - hmmmmm. I have the hammer, the leak AND the slow draining. I started having challenges plunging the sink - and soon water was making it to the kitchen floor because of the leak below. Currently the Tri Fecta of OH CRAP. No, I can't find anything on youtube.com that helps me because I feel as though my problems are slightly unique to their "diy" informationals.
My guy wont be back from vegas until monday(ish) so I will wait until he and his guy can come over and fix me up! Once and for alllllll. And I literally CAN NOT wait until I can replace the dishwasher and the GD. No more having to plunge the sink, twist the arm of an eight year old to help with the chores around the house, because loading a dishwasher is absolutely the easiest thing to do on the entire planet.
Oh those will be good days! I can see it now!
~daydreamer
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