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Chapter 1 discovering the problem.
Well this is going to be a long saga and it involve the "P" word. We all know the "P" word (plumbing).. I HATE PLUMING...anyhow here is how it started...
I am sitting in my office working on sketch up finishing the cabinet design for the CNC when my wife calls from the laundry (it's next to my office.) "What happened to the water pressure." So being the loving husband that I get up and wander into the laundry room and sure enough the water is just trickling into the washing machine instead of the robust rush of water one would expect when it is filling for the first time. Being the problem solver I am I wander into the kitchen and turn on the faucet and it too is nothing but a trickle. Hmm I think, I wonder if it is a neighborhood thing so I wander outside and turn on the hose bib in the front of the house where the water comes into the house and it has full pressure.
Geez I hope I don't have a pipe rupture the weather has gotten below freezing the last few night. So I go out to the meter expecting to see the needle spinning around and to my immense relief it is not. So I can rule out a pipe rupture. Being Navy trained in problem solving I came up with the conclusion that the somewhere in the house..
The next piece of the puzzle, the water goes directly into the water softener in the garage before it feeds the rest of the house so this is the next thing I check. There is a hose bib on the outlet of the water softener that the installer installed when he did the initial installation 13 years ago so I open it and sure enough, no pressure. I open the bypass valves on the inlet and outlet of the water softener and voila we now have water pressure. I tell LOML she can now proceed with her washing . She unhappily proclaims that the clothes aren't get as clean as she would like and grumbling proceed to do the laundry.... Right away I know that my problems are just starting because if mama ain't happy, no body is happy.
Well this is going to be a long saga and it involve the "P" word. We all know the "P" word (plumbing).. I HATE PLUMING...anyhow here is how it started...
I am sitting in my office working on sketch up finishing the cabinet design for the CNC when my wife calls from the laundry (it's next to my office.) "What happened to the water pressure." So being the loving husband that I get up and wander into the laundry room and sure enough the water is just trickling into the washing machine instead of the robust rush of water one would expect when it is filling for the first time. Being the problem solver I am I wander into the kitchen and turn on the faucet and it too is nothing but a trickle. Hmm I think, I wonder if it is a neighborhood thing so I wander outside and turn on the hose bib in the front of the house where the water comes into the house and it has full pressure.
Geez I hope I don't have a pipe rupture the weather has gotten below freezing the last few night. So I go out to the meter expecting to see the needle spinning around and to my immense relief it is not. So I can rule out a pipe rupture. Being Navy trained in problem solving I came up with the conclusion that the somewhere in the house..
The next piece of the puzzle, the water goes directly into the water softener in the garage before it feeds the rest of the house so this is the next thing I check. There is a hose bib on the outlet of the water softener that the installer installed when he did the initial installation 13 years ago so I open it and sure enough, no pressure. I open the bypass valves on the inlet and outlet of the water softener and voila we now have water pressure. I tell LOML she can now proceed with her washing . She unhappily proclaims that the clothes aren't get as clean as she would like and grumbling proceed to do the laundry.... Right away I know that my problems are just starting because if mama ain't happy, no body is happy.
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