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<blockquote data-quote="nvts" data-source="post: 157321" data-attributes="member: 3814"><p>Witz! You have GOT to be one of my favorite people! You spelled everything out soooo well. </p><p> </p><p>My favorite trick with my husband? </p><p> </p><p>We bought a "unique fixer-upper" that had been used as a rental with-option to buy for YEARS! The wiring in the house was still that cloth covered stuff. When we bought it, it was 82 years old.</p><p> </p><p>husband worked physical labor as a boat mechanic when we first bought it and I was a manager for a Communications company. His commute? 15 mins. My commute? 1.5 hours one way through New Jersey.</p><p> </p><p>We were newly weds and I STUPIDLY said that since he worked physical labor, I didn't mind doing the standard household stuff and some of the repairs.</p><p> </p><p>OMG! What a dope! </p><p> </p><p>Anyway, back to the story. We have a teeny-tiny 1/2 bath off the kitchen that backed up everytime it rained. I had pulled up all the tile floor, opened up the wall for the plumbing, removed the old toilet and waited, and waited and waited AND, you got it, waited for him to put humpty back together again. 4 mos. later, still nothing.</p><p> </p><p>One Saturday morning (it was 10:30 - I'd been up for hours!), I gave up on him doing it. So. I went got the Mapp gas (looks like a tiny blow torch) walked into the bedroom and whispered in his ear "if I turn off the main water to the house, will you have enough to flush when you get up?" He opened his eyes, looked very confused, saw the blow torch and asked "what are you doing?" I said "don't worry! I know you work soooo hard all week. I'm going to take the valves off, fit the sheetrock over the stems and solder them back on, I've watched you do it a hundred times, I know what I'm doing. Go back to sleep!" and started to walk out of the room (Mapp gas in hand!). "No! Look! I'm putting on my sweats, I'm doing that today! It was on my mind to get it done, don't worry, I've got it!". </p><p> </p><p>Once he got started, he finished and it's beautiful!</p><p> </p><p>I don't know, I think that explosive gas can motivate some people!</p><p> </p><p>All I can say Witz, is after all the years (almost 15) of doing this place room by room, window by window, catastrophy after catastrophy, I guess I realized he and I march to 2 different drummers. I DID however learn to not sweat the small stuff and in the end it's all small stuff. And he learned to hide the blow torch!! <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/felttip/laughing.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":laughing:" title="laughing :laughing:" data-shortname=":laughing:" /></p><p> </p><p>I feel for you!</p><p> </p><p>Happy Memorial Day!</p><p> </p><p>Beth</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nvts, post: 157321, member: 3814"] Witz! You have GOT to be one of my favorite people! You spelled everything out soooo well. My favorite trick with my husband? We bought a "unique fixer-upper" that had been used as a rental with-option to buy for YEARS! The wiring in the house was still that cloth covered stuff. When we bought it, it was 82 years old. husband worked physical labor as a boat mechanic when we first bought it and I was a manager for a Communications company. His commute? 15 mins. My commute? 1.5 hours one way through New Jersey. We were newly weds and I STUPIDLY said that since he worked physical labor, I didn't mind doing the standard household stuff and some of the repairs. OMG! What a dope! Anyway, back to the story. We have a teeny-tiny 1/2 bath off the kitchen that backed up everytime it rained. I had pulled up all the tile floor, opened up the wall for the plumbing, removed the old toilet and waited, and waited and waited AND, you got it, waited for him to put humpty back together again. 4 mos. later, still nothing. One Saturday morning (it was 10:30 - I'd been up for hours!), I gave up on him doing it. So. I went got the Mapp gas (looks like a tiny blow torch) walked into the bedroom and whispered in his ear "if I turn off the main water to the house, will you have enough to flush when you get up?" He opened his eyes, looked very confused, saw the blow torch and asked "what are you doing?" I said "don't worry! I know you work soooo hard all week. I'm going to take the valves off, fit the sheetrock over the stems and solder them back on, I've watched you do it a hundred times, I know what I'm doing. Go back to sleep!" and started to walk out of the room (Mapp gas in hand!). "No! Look! I'm putting on my sweats, I'm doing that today! It was on my mind to get it done, don't worry, I've got it!". Once he got started, he finished and it's beautiful! I don't know, I think that explosive gas can motivate some people! All I can say Witz, is after all the years (almost 15) of doing this place room by room, window by window, catastrophy after catastrophy, I guess I realized he and I march to 2 different drummers. I DID however learn to not sweat the small stuff and in the end it's all small stuff. And he learned to hide the blow torch!! :laughing2: I feel for you! Happy Memorial Day! Beth [/QUOTE]
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