The Writing Is On The Wall (and the toilet and the door)

I know I shouldn’t complain about my home, because I’m fortunate to have a safe place to land each day. But for the love of everything, it’s overly needy.

It’s usually the electric gate, the air-conditioning, the water or the plumbing. Always with the plumbing.

Since we have people coming and going and my husband isn’t always so focused on things that aren’t functioning properly, I add a handy dandy little note. so we don’t get caught in a dry pickle. We are on a well system and get our water via a reverse osmosis tank; if you let the water run and run, the tank will empty and we will have zero water. none. zip. zilch.

This makes for a cranky Suz, although I don’t need the finest things in life, I’m a much better person with running water.

Our current Sign Situation

Bathroom One: I love threatening people.

I used to have great handwriting, but as I’ve gotten older (lazier) it’s not as neat, plus I’m guessing I was in Frustration Mode when writing these notes.

Bathroom Two: I’m tempted to change sticks to sucks.

Main door to the lanai won’t open for no apparent reason: I put that note for our 23 year old dog sitter when she stayed here last weekend. I knew she would get it.

Bathroom Three: Some of you might recall this sign and post from 2021 when our painter Jeff Spicolli Super Stoner, didn’t want to read this sign all the way through because he thought I was sharing GOSPEL information and not toilet information.

Spicolli felt terrible about us being without water for 13 hours after that incident, so he did a nice repair the next day. Sadly, that toilet is again running. I’ve not added a sign, I’ve just closed the door and not let anyone in there.

I don’t want to jinx it, but our toilet in the master bathroom is in perfect working order.

We also have two sinks (kitchen & guest bath) with the absolute worst water pressure in the twenty first century. Add in that in our master bathroom, I had to turn off the hot water to our sinks because my side would continually drip, even after a plumber looked at it twice. *sigh*

I have new plumbers, the ones who installed our tankless water heaters and they will be out next week to address ALL of the things. Well, not the door. Not sure when the Coach will be able to tackle that one.

Wish me luck!

Anyone else leave little notes around your house regarding the broken stuff so it doesn’t get worse?

XO

27 thoughts on “The Writing Is On The Wall (and the toilet and the door)”

  1. I feel you. We have a running toilet like that as well but thankfully it’s in the master bath that no one uses but us…
    ( funny note- spell check changed that to badger bath. Which would be a whole other blog entirely) I did have a defect sign on our back door for a while but thankfully it’s been replaced. We won’t mention the clear tape I have to lay around the front door to block drafts in the winter… that door is next on the list for replacement.
    😉

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    1. A badger bath, eh?

      yeah, that’s could be interesting!

      For us, we’re trying to keep the heat out, while you’re trying to keep the cold out.

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  2. Sigh. Why IS it always the plumbing? Rick has tried to repair the downstairs bathroom faucet three times to get it to stop dripping. I really love it and don’t want to completely replace it. But the dripping…!

    And he finally had to completely replace an outdoor spigot entirely–what a job. That thing made my life a soaking wet hell every day in the summer since it sprayed water everywhere. He just did that last weekend. (No hurry LOL.)

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    1. Nance, a drippy faucet is a nuisance. This one was making me nuts and aside from the noise, I could never keep that sink clean, so I just turned off the valve. But now, when I wash my face before bedtime, I have to traipse across the house to a guest bathroom. I know…first world problems and all.

      I think I’d be calling a plumber for the spigot; that sounds like a big job indeed!

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  7. Anyone else leave little notes around your house regarding the broken stuff so it doesn’t get worse? Yes. My notes are more of a NO nature, feeling like I do that explanation isn’t necessary.  

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  8. I’ve never left a note, but we don’t get many visitors. That is a lot of potty problems! Middle Child needed a new toilet about 7 years ago that was installed by a plumber. It’s been a problem ever since with the running. Her bathroom is over the family room and I can hear her jingling the handle all the time to get it to stop. Fortunately, we are on city water, so no running out. Just a bigger water bill🙄

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  9. Good luck! Only problem we have here is my husband created a room in the basement to enclose the water tank and furnace from the rest of the basement where we have his art studio and a game room. After six months he still does not have a door knob on the door into the room. 🙂

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    1. Sounds like an easy fix….but maybe it’s just not a priority? I love that he has all his ‘fun stuff’ in the basement!

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  10. OMG – I would go bonkers. OK, more bonkers than I am now. I don’t have notes for the broken stuff, but I did finally put a note on my doorbell to stop ringing the bell (I’m an old lady that happens to still worship nap time for my tots). We had a hail storm last month and the roof guys will NOT leave us alone. I yell from my kitchen, we’re all set. Please go away.

    Our current issue is a bunch of electrical work that needs to be done. My friend’s husband is an electrician and as soon as he has a window, he’s coming over here. The list is lengthy. I don’t trust electricians. When we asked one to put lights in the cathedral ceiling in our family room, he said it couldn’t be done, but when we did the addition they said No Prob . . . .so now, I don’t trust just anyone to give me a straight answer.

    Love the AF sign on the door. Ha.

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    1. Finding a good, reliable and trustworthy electrician is a huge undertaking. Hopefully you’ll get yours taken care of soon.

      Can you put a No Soliciting sign by your door to keep the Hail Happy roofers away?

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  11. One of our toilets will keep running if you push the handle down too hard and it drives me crazy! I’m always in the habit of listening for it before I leave the house. One time it ran all day and we didn’t run out of water but money paying the water bill!

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  12. Suz, you are one of a kind! No, I have not left notes around the house, but fortunately, I don’t have all the little annoying issues that you seem to have with every toilet in your house, thank goodness. Under the water is much more more than a little annoyance. That’s a big frustration. That old post about the stoner/painter was quite funny and I enjoyed a second read of it. I sure hope you get all your water issues fixed sooner than later

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  14. Yeah, let me pile on with the if you think your handwriting is bad, you should see mine. *sigh*

    There’s only two of us and we don’t usually have guests, so we don’t have any signs. But it’s ALWAYS THE PLUMBING. I don’t want to get into the state of our upstairs bathroom. *another sigh*

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