OK, this will be a boring post but....
WHAT IS THE DEAL WITH THE PLUMBING IN THIS HOUSE??? I swear everything that has water going to it has had a problem.
We've been here a month and:
1) Two toilets have overflowed TWICE
2) The ice maker and water part in the fridge door doesn't work. Since we've been married, we've never had an icemaker, so we were SO excited about having easy access to water/ice (so was William... could be a problem but I guess as long as it keeps him drinking water!) Have to call the repair guy.
3) The toilet in the basement runs and runs and runs. Makes for a high water bill (more on this later). Bob will fix the stopper after he gets over the "it's awesome to not do any work on a house for a change" approach to life.
4) Now the master toilet can't be used. Will call the landlord after we address the water bill issue. Ha.
5) The dishwasher. It's new. We LOVE that (have never had a new d/w). But the buttons on the outside are also supersensitive so almost every time I reach for a dish in the upper cabinet, my hip turns on the "Drain" button. I know, it would be less of a problem if my hips were smaller but Bob does it, too, so HA!
6) The kitchen faucet. It goes from drip to POOOOWERFULSPRAAAAAAAAY and water bounces off the sink, walls, puddles on the counters and onto the floor. Just another weird water thing going on here.
7) The NEW washer we JUST GOT has leaked onto the floor twice now, and one time there were even bubbles coming out of the back. It's a front loader, I've had a front loader for years, I used HE soap, AND this says it's LOAD SENSING. Maybe the load I put in was too small for the amount of soap I put in? But what about that LOAD SENSING part? Also - lately I've noticed that the soap compartment has had water just sitting in it the past several times I've used it. Like I pour the soap in and it might overflow b/c there's water in there, too. WHAT IS GOING ON?
AAAAAND last.
8) Ha. Our first water bill. Haha. We've been on a well for as long as we can remember, and have never had a sprinkler system. So we don't really know what is a "normal" water usage amount for a house with a sprinkler system. But 43,000 gallons in 21 days seems like a lot. 2,000 milk containers PER DAY. Either there's a leak somewhere or the landlord has the sprinkler set to "typhoon". Will investigate/ask for permission to at least water EVERY OTHER day.
I'm not complaining - this is a great house and we really do like it. But for a "new-ish" house we expected fewer maintenance problems! Maybe God is telling us we should stick with the renovation thing.
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