In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Jack
WOW. Thank god for that stub you had.
You did what I would have done with a stub. Without would have been near impossible, I think! It all seems mostly working now, and hasn't damaged anything existing, especially that precious stub! So I'd personally leave things as-is, unless/ until you get a professional who can do a 100% job with more knowledge/ better equipment/ and different parts. The only thing is, I'd throw a tarp over the hole to keep the rain out, but I'd leave it open otherwise for a while, to check and make sure neither fitting gets pressured-off.
CONGRATS!! I hope you're pleased with a job that seems to me well done!
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Hey Brenda
I do remember you talking about a gondola ride coming down and damaging the pier. Am I remembering correctly?
Heavy wind is never a good thing. 
I've been through two serious wind storms - one here where the wind was gusting over 100mph (~170 kph if I calculated correctly). And every time it would gust, the sound would go from a deafening moan to an even louder deafening shriek, and I could hear the roof shingles rip off like they were being unzipped. So there's be an extended period of loud WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO with intermittent and even louder EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ... WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
And it went on .all. .night. .long.
The same thing happened in downtown Chicago one night, except instead of hearing roof shingles rip off, I heard glass crashing. I thought it was windows popping out of the tall buildings.
I too do not like seriously windy weather.
ETA: If it wasn't clear, I find violent windstorms deeply unnerving.
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Nothing quite as much fun as digging in the dark and the mud, hunting for a crumbled rusty pipe that's welling water up. Had that happen more than once .... interestingly, the pipes all rusted about 9" down ... I figured that's about where there was both enough water in the soil, with enough oxygen penetrating from above, to really corrode those pipes! These were sprinkler system pipes, but we didn't even have a separate shutoff for them so we had to shut off the entire house. The scary part was that each time we tried to cap to pipe off, it crumbled. We had to keep digging deeper and deeper until we found a portion that was solid enough to put a cap on.
Fortunately for you it looks like your pipe cracked instead of crumbled, so hopefully the hose clamps will stay on for a good long time!!!
Sounds like you had a nice visit; it's VERY good to get away once in a while because it's waaaay too easy to get stuck in a mental rut and get too narrow-focused!
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Speaking of narrow-focus ... wow this sink repair is taking way too long. Hubby is a perfectionist, and when it's all done it will be the best-looking sink in the house, but I feel like we could have been done a day ago instead of having two more days of work!
The hole under the sink has been patched with (basically) a two-piece plywood access panel. We had to cut out some concrete in order to seat the sink a little lower. Also, because the sink doesn't fit quite the same hubby is making a front panel to fit under the sink. Still need to cut about a dozen tiles so we can re-tile around the sink, and I need to get a P trap with a longer pipe coming out of the wall, and taller to reach the sink drain. But once THAT'S done I still need to install some curtain rods and brackets, hang curtains, and sort thru the office, livingroom and dear daughter's prized possessions. And clean. We have out of town guests coming in a few weeks and we need to put our place in some kind of order, and especially get the guest bathroom ready!!!
And there are still a lot of weighty legal and financial things to take care of. It's sure not going to get done any timesoon. Maybe by the end of next month ...?
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Jack
WOW. Thank god for that stub you had.
I know! Tell me about it.
I actually knew that nub existed back early this spring when I had dug a much tinier hole right up to the house to see what the problem was, and (laughably) tried making a stupid Macguyver style solution that failed miserably before I just filled it all back in (all of that dirt had since washed away and the hole was there again).
The thing is, until yesterday, I didn't even know what to do with the nub or how grateful I should have been that it existed in the first place.
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You did what I would have done with a stub. Without would have been near impossible, I think! It all seems mostly working now, and hasn't damaged anything existing, especially that precious stub! So I'd personally leave things as-is, unless/ until you get a professional who can do a 100% job with more knowledge/ better equipment/ and different parts. The only thing is, I'd throw a tarp over the hole to keep the rain out, but I'd leave it open otherwise for a while, to check and make sure neither fitting gets pressured-off.
Yes. I was going to find myself a piece of the old plywood flooring from the porch that I was using for various things and cut it down to size to fit over that until I cover it up. I'd like to make it through a few heavy rains and see how it behaves before covering it back up. I think the beauty part of this solution is that it should hold for at least a while, and even if the straps break I still don't think the amount of water leakage would be anywhere near what it was before since it would be the straps on the iron most likely to break and the rubber wedged on there so hard I can't see them moving at all. I also cut the pvc to the exact size, put the sleeves on the PVC, then forced them onto the iron from there, so there's not a ton of play in between for things to get all wonky.
And there's the fact that I still have over 4 feet of PVC pipe, and the rubber sleeves only cost $5 for a pair, so a future repair will not cost much unless something else goes catastrophically wrong.
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CONGRATS!! I hope you're pleased with a job that seems to me well done!
Thanks.
Yeah. It ain't perfect, but should do the trick for at least a while. If it doesn't get any worse, the amount of water that stays is incidental and there would be more water in the ground just from the rain.
Youtube is a beautiful thing. Until I watched a pair of 5 minute DIY videos after I dug it up to see what I was looking at, I had absolutely no idea what I was going to do.
The only credit I'm willing to give myself here is taking that risk to cut the pipe which left me with zero options other than to figure it out and fix it (unless I wanted to spend rain cycles bailing out a few buckets of water every 5 minutes to keep up with the water) and actually making it through that drain pipe without taking a break or breaking a blade.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Nothing quite as much fun as digging in the dark and the mud, hunting for a crumbled rusty pipe that's welling water up. Had that happen more than once .... interestingly, the pipes all rusted about 9" down ... I figured that's about where there was both enough water in the soil, with enough oxygen penetrating from above, to really corrode those pipes! These were sprinkler system pipes, but we didn't even have a separate shutoff for them so we had to shut off the entire house. The scary part was that each time we tried to cap to pipe off, it crumbled. We had to keep digging deeper and deeper until we found a portion that was solid enough to put a cap on.
Fortunately for you it looks like your pipe cracked instead of crumbled, so hopefully the hose clamps will stay on for a good long time!!!
Yeah. I probably mentioned before that I hate plumbing. At least this water was all more or less clean water. That pipe looks really nasty, but after cutting through it you can tell by the cross section that there's plenty of legit metal still there. The pipe was strong, but the shifting because of the moles, ants, tree roots and lack of gutters must have caused the extremely heavy, decorative concrete borders to sink a little bit and pull the pipe down. (At least that's my theory right now. It is fortunate that the pipe nub at the house end was higher than the pipe going out to the street and not in reverse).
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Sounds like you had a nice visit; it's VERY good to get away once in a while because it's waaaay too easy to get stuck in a mental rut and get too narrow-focused!
Yeah. Even though my friend bailed at the beginning of the week and said he would have been available when my dad was going down, I wanted to go this time since I couldn't make it last time. It's probably the last time I'll see my brother until he stays with me around Christmas time.
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Speaking of narrow-focus ... wow this sink repair is taking way too long. Hubby is a perfectionist, and when it's all done it will be the best-looking sink in the house, but I feel like we could have been done a day ago instead of having two more days of work!
The hole under the sink has been patched with (basically) a two-piece plywood access panel. We had to cut out some concrete in order to seat the sink a little lower. Also, because the sink doesn't fit quite the same hubby is making a front panel to fit under the sink. Still need to cut about a dozen tiles so we can re-tile around the sink, and I need to get a P trap with a longer pipe coming out of the wall, and taller to reach the sink drain. But once THAT'S done I still need to install some curtain rods and brackets, hang curtains, and sort thru the office, livingroom and dear daughter's prized possessions. And clean. We have out of town guests coming in a few weeks and we need to put our place in some kind of order, and especially get the guest bathroom ready!!!
And there are still a lot of weighty legal and financial things to take care of. It's sure not going to get done any timesoon. Maybe by the end of next month ...?
Go easy on him. You'll both be more pleased with the results that the extra time spent yield.
That's going to be my problem here. Being a perfectionist is all well and good when it's your house and you're not planning on moving. I want to fix her up and get out of here. But the amount of time it takes me to get anything done because of the perfectionism is going to make that take a very long time. I wish I could just fill stuff up the wrong way and slap paint on it like my friend does at his rental, but I follow the instructions for materials to the T and don't ever get as much stuff like outdoor painting done when there's a chance of rain nearly every day like there has been the last few summers in these parts.
Good luck with the financials. Got plenty of those around here, but I&#
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Hey Brenda
I do remember you talking about a gondola ride coming down and damaging the pier. Am I remembering correctly?
Heavy wind is never a good thing.
I've been through two serious wind storms - one here where the wind was gusting over 100mph (~170 kph if I calculated correctly). And every time it would gust, the sound would go from a deafening moan to an even louder deafening shriek, and I could hear the roof shingles rip off like they were being unzipped. So there's be an extended period of loud WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO with intermittent and even louder EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ... WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
And it went on .all. .night. .long.
The same thing happened in downtown Chicago one night, except instead of hearing roof shingles rip off, I heard glass crashing. I thought it was windows popping out of the tall buildings.
I too do not like seriously windy weather.
ETA: If it wasn't clear, I find violent windstorms deeply unnerving.
Hey KIKI.
Good memory but they are two separate incidents. The pier was last winter as I stated. Big wind and high waves during the day. Someone was caught on the pier and had to be airlifted back to dry land.
The Sea to Ski gondola had a major cable cut over the summer by some mutton heads but no one knows why they did it. It is still being repaired. Think the city of Squamish is hoping to have it reopened by next summer. Won't make the ski season. Squamish is going to loose some money this winter.
Wind storms can. We get a lot of them in the winter. The last bad one that did any damage was over 10years ago and tore up a seawall in a large park in Vancouver. Took 3 levels of government to rebuild it and get rid of all the downed trees and the trees that were teetering before some got hurt. Stanley Park is a huge tourist attraction at all times of the year as it is the largest green space in the lower mainland.
They don't bother me but I do worry for people who are out in them and worry about trees and power lines coming down.
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Lots to do tomorrow. Gotta reregister to vote since I moved this Spring. Hopefully I have enough ID and such to be able to do that.
Hoping to pick up a Christmas tree as well and maybe get some other shopping down too.
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Lots to do in the rain today.
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Quote:Er ... you see, that IS the problem.
Go easy on him. You'll both be more pleased with the results that the extra time spent yield.
That's going to be my problem here. Being a perfectionist is all well and good when it's your house and you're not planning on moving
We may move to downsize, like you, and to a smaller city so that dear daughter inherits a place that she can maintain. And even if we stay, we were going to replace the whole vanity anyway because it's too low and was made from scrap wood and full of leaded paint, so there's no point in being so fussy.
In any case, hubby had a whole bunch of scrap wood from cabinets and a closet that we had taken down a few years ago because they were ugly, and I managed to persuade him to junk it all, so he cut up and I bundled the wood and took it to the curb. The garage looks so much bigger now!
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Hey BRENDA, stay dry! I hope you get a reprieve from the rain soon!
If you can believe it, this late in the year we are looking at 90-95+ temps from now until Friday!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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