Woozle HypertwinJan 3, 2023

Call me a wacky lefto or whatever, but I'm beginning to wonder if household plumbing wasn't designed partly with an eye towards being maximally unpleasant so as to ensure that the middle class would be terrified of falling down into the blue-collar class where they'd have to deal with this stuff regularly.

I mean, maybe it wouldn't be super-easy, but it really feels like there's got to be a way to make it more user-friendly to service and they just didn't even try. Like, 'Why bother when the menials can take care of it?' 🧐

Show threadrenicJan 3, 2023
@woozle - naw that just looks like crappy workmanship. I did a bad plumbing job (the old "home owner's special" on my first home exactly once. Then I learned to do it the right way.
Show threadWoozle HypertwinJan 3, 2023

@renic Everything under there that isn't original to the (1939) house was done by a professional, so...

(Tried to get a real plumber out to help with this, but the one we booked never showed up and we never heard from the other one. Like, at all.)

Show threadWoozle Hypertwin

@renic But, like, to give a minor but obvious example: why don't the plastic wingnut thingies (not sure what the proper word is; you have to loosen them to detach the pipes) have any kind of indication of which way to turn them for loosening?

I'm having to rely on my intuitive sense/W.A.G. of what's attached to what, and I could easily be wrong.

Jan 3, 2023 at 9:57pmWeb
Show threadrenicJan 3, 2023
@woozle - lefty loosy... Righty tightly. The part it's connected to has a curve on that side of the nut.
Show threadWoozle HypertwinJan 4, 2023

@renic Ahh yes -- so easy to remember, so simple... and so not-always-true.

The part about the curve on the nut does seem useful, however. I just wish it were a bit more obvious, for people who only do this type of plumbing a few times a decade rather than most days of the week.