the joys of college life...
OK, I had to post about this. When else for the rest of your life will you be able to do things like this if not in college?
So, for those of you who are unfamiliar with my situation, I'm living in Sweetwater, TX working for ADIT Photomultipliers, a subsidiary of Ludlum Measurements, Inc. Ludlum Measurements purchased a house right next to the main office in April that they plan to tear down and turn into a parking lot eventually. However, for the summer, they're letting us live in it for free, which is very nice. However, it is what you might call a "fixer-upper". Among many other quirks, the shower is by far the most interesting feature of the house. There are actually two showers, but one is in a sort of closet-turned-bathroom and it does not function. That is, unless you refer to brown water drizzling from the hot and cold knobs (that's right, not even the faucet) when you turn it on as "working" (I think they may have unclogged it, actually, and now perhaps it shoots a single laser-like stream of water at speeds that would put a hole clean through a kodiak bear). Anyway, the functioning shower consists of a bathtub and a faucet with one of those little hoses with a little plastic showerhead thing attached to one end and a rubber tube that slides over the faucet and is supposed to stay on from the water pressure. However, the tube would never stay on, and you had to just hold the little showerhead and spray yourself and set it down when you were washing your hair or whatever. The whole thing felt like a setup where they might bathe baby seals at a traveling circus or something. It was quite strange.
Last night, Ryan and I decided to take action. Ryan bought some SWEET camoflage duct tape at Wal-Mart, and we went to work. We wrapped the duct tape around the faucet-hose junction about 49 times, then we taped the showerhead to the wall, giving it a slight angle by lodging it against an old toilet paper roll. Other than the water that sprays furiously (in small quantities, high pressure) from the leaks in the faucet-hose connection, it works pretty well. We have some ideas involving epoxy to fix that, though.
Anyway, it was a fun experience. I got to take the inaugural shower, a great honor.
So, for those of you who are unfamiliar with my situation, I'm living in Sweetwater, TX working for ADIT Photomultipliers, a subsidiary of Ludlum Measurements, Inc. Ludlum Measurements purchased a house right next to the main office in April that they plan to tear down and turn into a parking lot eventually. However, for the summer, they're letting us live in it for free, which is very nice. However, it is what you might call a "fixer-upper". Among many other quirks, the shower is by far the most interesting feature of the house. There are actually two showers, but one is in a sort of closet-turned-bathroom and it does not function. That is, unless you refer to brown water drizzling from the hot and cold knobs (that's right, not even the faucet) when you turn it on as "working" (I think they may have unclogged it, actually, and now perhaps it shoots a single laser-like stream of water at speeds that would put a hole clean through a kodiak bear). Anyway, the functioning shower consists of a bathtub and a faucet with one of those little hoses with a little plastic showerhead thing attached to one end and a rubber tube that slides over the faucet and is supposed to stay on from the water pressure. However, the tube would never stay on, and you had to just hold the little showerhead and spray yourself and set it down when you were washing your hair or whatever. The whole thing felt like a setup where they might bathe baby seals at a traveling circus or something. It was quite strange.
Last night, Ryan and I decided to take action. Ryan bought some SWEET camoflage duct tape at Wal-Mart, and we went to work. We wrapped the duct tape around the faucet-hose junction about 49 times, then we taped the showerhead to the wall, giving it a slight angle by lodging it against an old toilet paper roll. Other than the water that sprays furiously (in small quantities, high pressure) from the leaks in the faucet-hose connection, it works pretty well. We have some ideas involving epoxy to fix that, though.
Anyway, it was a fun experience. I got to take the inaugural shower, a great honor.
posted by Abe at 8:35 AM
3 Comments:
Engineers. I love it. I also find your references to circus seals and kodiak bears highly amusing. :)
Haha-I love it. All I can say is, I'm glad I'm getting to experience the benefits of our downstairs shower. : )
My shower here in Russia is like yours. Except that you can buy metal fixtures that screw into your wall to hold it up.
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