Stop in for a cup of coffee

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Sublime one said:
Well I got 57 box’s of books unboxed and on the shelves, not exactly where they are all supposed to be but out of the box and on the shelf. I have decided to follow Craig’s advice and not work myself into a walking triage unit. I am now stopping regardless of progress at the 12 hr mark. It will let me heal up a bit. I got base ready for pouring. I just need the bug guy to get here and spray then I can lay some plastic barrier. I will be very glad to have slab poured. The plumber has charged all his lines and we are holding steady for two days now. I had the electrician replaced within four hours!

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There is one or more lines the plumber cannot pressure test unless he is willing to go to the trouble. This line goes upward inside the bathroom wall to the shower. There was a time, before these fancy shower heads, when this pipe never received full line pressure so pressure testing it rarely happened but... some of the newer shower heads have an on/off switch. Pull up the shower switch on the tub spigot then turn the switch on the shower head to off. Line pressure builds in all of it including the drop hose. I know this reads like I visit www.forplumbersonly. Nope. I knew I had a small leak in the master bath somewhere. I took that wall of the surround down and just could not find a leak. The new shower head turned it into a much larger leak whenever that switch on the shower head was off. I just happened to be in the basement beneath the leak while wife was giving the dog a bath. She was turning that shower head with a drop hose on and off again as needed. Talk about a WTF couple of minutes for me.
 
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Morning all you retired coffee drinkers; wife still has 6 months before she retires. Mid 30s this morning should get too mid 60s later.
 
jaws said:
Morning all you retired coffee drinkers; wife still has 6 months before she retires. Mid 30s this morning should get too mid 60s later.
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My wife retired and now she's going back to work again. I get my freedom back! LOL
 
RedFish said:
There is one or more lines the plumber cannot pressure test unless he is willing to go to the trouble. This line goes upward inside the bathroom wall to the shower. There was a time, before these fancy shower heads, when this pipe never received full line pressure so pressure testing it rarely happened but... some of the newer shower heads have an on/off switch. Pull up the shower switch on the tub spigot then turn the switch on the shower head to off. Line pressure builds in all of it including the drop hose. I know this reads like I visit www.forplumbersonly. Nope. I knew I had a small leak in the master bath somewhere. I took that wall of the surround down and just could not find a leak. The new shower head turned it into a much larger leak whenever that switch on the shower head was off. I just happened to be in the basement beneath the leak while wife was giving the dog a bath. She was turning that shower head with a drop hose on and off again as needed. Talk about a WTF couple of minutes for me.
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Now I'm trying to remember if I pressure tested that... My shower head does not close completely, but it does have different settings. The more pressure you are getting out, the more that line is seeing. I did think about that when I put it together this Summer -believe I put a plug in and checked.
 
Actually, you got that backward. The lesser amount of water coming out of the head increases the line pressure. Wife likes the purring pulsing massage like setting ( let's not guess why). I like the rain setting. Dog dont like none of it LOL
 
Little bit of a side project today. Felt like I needed a break from the dart as that last little fitting on this corner of the quarter panel is fighting me. Had to walk away

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Geez. For comparison, I can go on Texas road house, get a 16 ounce ribeye, two sides and a drink for for 14.99

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dukeboy_318 said:
Geez. For comparison, I can go on Texas road house, get a 16 ounce ribeye, two sides and a drink for for 14.99

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Sides and drinks are fractional cost of doing business... 14.99 for 16oz is 1.06 per ounce ....so that package would be $40.00 and I can't imagine the volume of meat that Texas Roadhouse procures...but if they are making $3.5 BILLION a year I'm guessing they are getting a pretty good deal.

So are commercial enterprises like TRH or others soaking up the available inventory and driving up cost for individual consumers or creating a strong enough revenue stream for the bulk producers to keep cost lower for consumers (OK...stop laughing)
 
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