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[same_sky]

Over a year ago, our bathtub faucet broke. It wouldn't let water come out of the tub spout, just the shower head. We have been running bath water via the shower head all this time. There are many problems with this approach, mainly relating to the speed of water delivery. It gets cold as it travels to the tub, so it's difficult to do water temperature correctly. It's slow slow slow, darn those water saving features! And it's just plain weird. But it's just one of those things we've lived with for so long that we just stopped thinking about trying to fix it, if you know what I mean. Finally, it occurs to us (and by us, I mean M) that you could like, fix it by replacing the spout doohickey. Turns out those are just like seven dollars at Lowe's, so he buys one. After it sits on the bathroom counter for a few weeks, he finally attempts to put it on yesterday to find that it didn't fit the pipe and he didn't have the correct tools. But the good news is that the old one might be fixable because it appears to be related to gunky build-up! So he soaks it in vinegar and after the proper application of a little elbow grease, all is well, and we finally had a working tub last night! We were both watching the thing dispense water from the appropriate spot this evening with glee and fascination. I might have gone so far as to call it sexy. We usually take a bath with Evelyn in the evening and then hand her off to the other parent and stand up for a quickie shower (just in case she has peed in the water, you know.) Tonight was Mommy bath, and as I stood up and flipped the doodad that switches between tub and shower.... the gasket broke.

Now we don't have a working shower at all.

Easy come, easy go.

I hope she didn't pee.

(p.s. We do have a second shower in the house, though I have never actually even used it. I guess it's a good thing that M wouldn't let me turn that tiny little shower into additional closet space last year via the installation of a clothes rod in the shower itself...)

Comments

[reebert.livejournal.com]

Our bathroom never had a bathtub and so just had the showerhead fixture. Since we put the tub in we've always just filled it with the showerhead as well. Ours is the kind that you can hold in your hand so I just lay it in the bathtub as it fills. The worst part of that is that it gets pretty slippery from the baby oil I put in the bath water. hahaha And just now as I'm typing this it occurs to me that I could put the oil in after the tub is filled and the showerhead removed....hmmm....That just doesn't seem right though. hahaha

In any case, glad your faucet is fixed and that you have a second shower. I shower after as well for the same reason. haha

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

I never knew that this was such a prevalent problem. Ha! :) It's fixed now and it's so nice to see the thing working properly. Maybe we should stop procrastinating on our home repair problems in the future..nah.

[grain-damaged.livejournal.com]

OMG... I laughed so hard when I read this post. We too have a faucetless tub! Our little engineer decided to dismantle the the stopper on it (she's old enough to be in the tub by herself for a few minutes at a time. Or NOT.... lol) anyways she then pulled the drain and so we lost pieces before I realized what had happened. Now Dave's got it jerry-rigged so just the shower works. Sadly we have to rip our whole wall out to fix it! So it's just been the shower head for us. At least it's on a hose... Ah well. The good news is, Sophie's likes to take showers now!

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

Eeek. Ripping out the wall! I shall try not to let E figure out how to dismantle the stopper. ;) M fixed our issue yesterday so we have it all working now! For the first time in a year! It's great.