Plumbing Woes

In the week since the last post, I have been up to my eyes in plumbing problems. Who would ever be a home-owner, eh? Drainage problems that we thought were resolved back in September last year resurfaced (quite literally), resulting in our nice newly-laid floor in the dining room being pulled up so the plumbers could investigate. Turns out it’s our neighbour’s blockage, so now we have a whole new chapter in the saga ahead of us and I don’t see this going away any time soon.

In other plumbing news (!) we finally attempted to connect up our water filter tap. We had one in our old flat and I was loathe to live without it but didn’t want to leave a hole in the sink unit, so we left it behind. I was chuffed to find the same NSA filter on Ebay and bought it shortly after we moved into the house in February. I located a nice looking tap to go with it (again, an internet purchase) and then it sat in the kitchen waiting for fitting. A friend came by this weekend and made the first attempt, but fell foul of the conversion between US (Imperial) and UK (metric) plumbing fitment sizes. We thought we had anticipated this and arranged for a US connector to be sent from family in the US a month ago, but we didn’t foresee the problems at the tap end of the arrangement. So, now we have a tap in place and a filter in place but they’re not connected, so our water is still a murky white colour from the main tap.

Plumbing aside, we had a very productive weekend – 25 of our 85 boxes were finally unpacked, which is the biggest progress we’ve made so far. Mostly book collections and Art/Crafts materials; things we’ve had to live without for the last year and a half. We have way too much stuff so a lot will go to Ebay or Bookcrossing (which I may already have mentioned). No idea where the contents of the other 60 boxes are going, but with guests expected in March, we’ll find out soon enough!