I am not a handy-man. My pride does not prevent me from admitting that. If you want a song sung, a talk given, a ball thrown somewhere with some degree of accuracy, then I’m your man. But when it comes to home improvement, I didn’t get the gene.
Don’t get me wrong–I’m fairly teachable. And it’s not that I don’t want to learn to do stuff around the house. I blame my propensity to perfectionism on my hesitancy to rip open the wall or dive into the moped engine. (Did I mention that I have a moped that doesn’t run?) If I don’t think I can do it well, most times I’m going to pass on the opportunity to make a bigger (read: more expensive to fix) mess.
Did you see how I justified my ineptitude there?
Anyway, the water that comes out of our sinks is scalding hot. Boil your tea hot. Hard-boil eggs hot. Melt the skin off your hands hot. And I’m not talking about the supposed-to-be-hot side. I can hear you out there: Turn down the control on your hot water heater. Yeah, thanks. That’s not it. It’s the COLD WATER side that’s spewing forth the flames of liquid death.
We’ve had well-meaning handymen, part-time home re-modelers, and even professional contractors come in to look at the pipes. They all end up shaking their heads and saying, “Hmm, I don’t know…it’s not supposed to be like that.”
I think our next step is to call in an exorcist, or the guys from Ghostbusters…
How do you handle problems in your life that are eating your lunch? Who do you turn to in your time of crisis? We all need somebody…
In the meantime, be careful when you come over to the house and have to wash your hands…
2 Comments
steve b · October 1, 2008 at 9:58 am
Did you just recently have the faucet installed? if so, or even if not, did you recently have a plumber work plumbing magic and sweat in a recirculator on the hot water side for the purposes of efficiency and conservation?
Or perhaps you’ve had to replace your water heater?
Any recent plumbing work? Because it sounds like the hot, and possibly the cold, supply line to the sink has been switched, or the cold side is not being fed the water from the hot side of the tank output.
Justin · October 2, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Good thing you have a neighbor that liked to tear things apart and fix them….oh wait, he moved.