Still not sewing...

galvanized water lines. <sigh>

> The faux painting of my "faux rock" fireplace is going well,
> but taking a whole lot more time than I expected. The new
> hardwood floors are FABULOUS! Most of my LR furniture is
> back in place, along with one of the new rugs, the other
> two will stay safely stored until all the painting is done..
>
> However...
>
> A couple of weeks ago, I was rearranging stuff in the
> unfinished basement in order to make room to store a
> soon-to-be-unused teak media cabinet. I happened to go into
> the furnace - hot water heater room for something. And
> noticed a puddle of rusty water at the base of the
> 38-year-old natural gas water heater. And a decidedly nasty
> looking rusty, bubbly, spot on the side of the tank, near
> the bottom.
>
> I got right on to my favorite plumbing company, they had a
> new one installed early the following week. While he was
> here anyway, and because I'm not a big fan of their $75.
> minimum charge for piddley little jobs, I asked him to
> replace the flex hose to the icemaker with copper tubing,
> and to remove and install a new hot-water shut-off under the
> kitchen sink. It had reached the point where I had NO hot
> water pressure at the sink (and it wasn't the mixer, as that
> has been replaced recently), figured it was an excellent
> time to do something about that issue. So while he had the
> whole-house water supply turned off anyway, he removed (with
> some major effort) the short length of water pipe coming out
> of the wall, and put in a new shut-off valve. HOWEVER, he
> showed me the old 4" length of pipe which comes out of the
> wall for the hot water supply. The 1/2" - 5/8"(?)
> inside-diameter pipe had MAYBE 1/4" opening remaining. It
> was almost full of rust, gunk, tiny gravel, whatever...
> When he turned the water supply back on, every tap in the
> house ran rusty water for a good long time. On the up side,
> I always test nice and high for iron when I donate blood....
>
> He strongly suggested I think about replacing ALL the
>
> On the bright side, the 50 gallon energy-efficient water
> heater works well, I oversized it for me but it will be
> perfect if/when I sell this three bathroom house. And the
> copper tubing replacement to the ice maker went smoothly. I
> dumped out the first couple of batches of rusty ice cubes.
>
> Life is good... I think.... sewing soon... I hope....
>