Daze Of Future Chat

i can toggle my phone to caps and punctuation i just dont do it all the time (.... ) SEE ? ?

 

beard spam

 

I just figured he needed watched... was a weird first post.

 

You're right a lot more often than you're wrong. :cheers2:

 

took the wire brush and drill attachment to my trailer itch to get rid of the loose krud and painted it

I used very special paint designed exclusively for rat rod type vehicles....you may have heard of it..it is called


black spray paint

 

took the wire brush to my trailer itch...trailer itch is what you get after visiting the hooker at the trailer park

 

I'm missing Heat and Lynn. I wonder what's going on in their worlds.

 

Yes, me too. =(

 

Hey folks! I've had an exhausting "interesting" few days. Remember I called the heater people to come out? Well, they came and worked for hours. I was told to let the system run a while, let the water circulate a bit, and THEN if the radiators didn't begin heating up for me to bleed them again.

Ok, so Mama and I go out and do some stuff (not Wal-Mart though). We started out "small" and went to Bi-Lo for a couple of things and to Family Dollar. She didn't even go in Family Dollar because she was tired but that is beside the point I'm getting to.

We come home, and I see the radiators aren't getting any hotter, so I start bleeding them. I bled 2 and everything was FINE FINE. Hot water coming out fairly quick, and I'm able to screw them back down, easy peasy.

I'm at the 3rd one (there are 7 to bleed) and turned the bleeder cap a little and water is spewing WAY more than the others. Ok I thought that's ok...I start turning it more and BAM that sob BLEW off. Hot water was shooting up like a geyser. :yikes: I cut the system off at the thermostat upstairs. Then I go downstairs and knew one place to cut off the system and did that. This whole time, I'm trying to remain calm and flipping the hell out AS I'm on the phone trying to get hold of the friend that recommended the company that had come. I couldn't get anybody to answer!

The water by now is leaking/gushing down from right underneath where the spewing radiator is. Water is all over the basement floor, coming from the ceiling. I get on the phone to the son. He gets me over to the where the water tank is, and I turn the only thing I can reach that is leading from a tank....

Water is spewing, gushing upstairs AND downstairs. I FINALLY get hold of the man I know can help and even though it probably didn't take him but 30 minutes, it felt like 2 hours and the carpet is STILL soaked. I've been running a space heater on it most of the day. I turned it off a couple of hours ago.

Anyway, the company men came back and replaced the bad bleeder plug after shutting the system down, draining water and lessening pressure, etc.

I've since had to bleed the dingdangflipping radiators AGAIN...which they told me I'd probably have to.

The house is officially in a bigger mess than I've EVER seen it, and by GODINHEAVEN that is saying something!

But we have heat, by golly.

I actually have more to say but I'm exhausted after that essay and everything involved in waiting on someone hand and foot. lol

After a few (moments) I'll probably have my strength back and be yapping more.


Edit: There are 9 (NINE) radiators to bleed, not 7.

 

That water gushed at least 45 minutes before he got everything shut down and the water in the system quit running. I found out that the places (2) I shut off would have eventually stopped the water...eventually in several hours. :wall:


Edit: last but not least - I KNOW NOW how to shut it all down. I know how to bleed a radiator...and those 2 things are the extent of my knowledge.

the end

 

Christ, Lynn.

That carpet is probably going to have to come out. It's going to sour.

I feel so sorry for you!

 

And Aeri, since Mama can't smell anything but maybe shit right up under her nose (and I'm just guessing at that) she will raise ungodly hell when I start talking about doing something (taking up) that carpet.

but yeah, I thought about the carpet souring too. I've been looking for any kind of old anything we won't use again to stomp on that rug trying to get the water up.

mercy...

 

maybe it was too muddy in the fall

probably easier to flip it or till now that its firmed up a bit with the cold...less getting stuck less muck jams in the tiller

 

should have turned off the main valve where the water first comes into house


we have 3 choices here...one valve before the meter...one after the meter....last choice would be the feed into the furnace boiler

our is a really small natural gas fired boiler and small baseboard hot water rads

4th disaster choice is if all others fail you call the city and wait for some goof to come turn off the service valve just outside the property line

 

Awww Lynn I wish this was going better for you. Sounds like the carpet will have to come up. But hey, your luck has got to turn soon!

You should have just come here, where my roommates set the temp at 78f every time I'm not looking....

 

I think (am not sure) one of the 2 things I turned off was where the water comes into the house...according to the "men in the know" I should have turned off/flipped the lever that was near the line running to the boiler.

Turning it off where I did I was told it would "eventually" have quit running. good grief...the whole living room carpet would have been soaked and the downstairs would have been as flooded as it was when it rained.

I AM SICK AND DAMN TIRED OF BEING FORCED TO GET MORE CHARACTER.

 

Is there any way you can just lift the carpet up and flip half over to dry out and then do the other half or something? I'm not sure if I explained that well. If you are very careful lifting it up you might be able to salvage it later.

 

I wish you could see this...it is carpet that was laid wall to wall. Sitting on top of this carpet is 1 of the heaviest marble-top antique chest of drawers you can imagine, right near where it would have to be pulled up. Oh I've thought about all that too, I promise. The carpet is laid (smushed) flush to under the radiator. Then even nearer to the radiator than the BIG (ton heavy chest) is a smaller (but still very heavy) marble-top antique thing I don't even know what you call it.

Its going to be a dang mess, and Mama will be oblivious.

:dizzy2: :bigcry:


This is one year I'm looking Very Forward to my brother and BIL coming out here because they can't STAND MESS, and this will qualify as way more than just a mess. I may not (I WILL NOT) be able to get her to see the reality of this; but, I fairly 100% positive brother will "help" her see the light. They come the end of April...so there will be plenty of time for it to get "ripe"

 

having been there before,, this ^ works some. I use some storage bins to lap the carpet over and blow air thru the tunnel I create.. also have a carpet scrubber with extractor ..
still saturated carpet is heavy stuff.
I have two rooms yet Ive not put carpeting down from last years water break .. not really feeling like fixing this shithole ,, maybe when the neighbors crotch fruit plays with some matches and burns that house down or I move whatever comes first..

 

I'm up 4 games in a row this morning.