To continue with yesterday's theme of inventive repairs, the QUINTESSENTIAL do-it-your-selfer, is another plumbing repair.  It seems that many people are willing to take on plumbing repairs.  (One would think that given the inherent dangers of Electricity that there would be fewer instances of "inventive wiring", but it seems to me that they are about equal.  The problem "creative" wiring mistakes is that they can be the end of your own "personal" creationJ.  I will save some of these "special" wiring examples for another blog.) 

     This first example shows where someone didn't have a proper cap for the main sewer clean out, so they carved a wooden stake about 4" in diameter and drove it into the pipe----it had been there for a very long time, and was not about to be taken out.

     This next example (and one of my favorite plumbing repairs of all time) is of a abandoned toilet location where a pair of old dungarees has been jammed into the pipe and capped off with a piece of concrete.  This repair had also been in place for a long time.  Sometimes "functional" repairs are still: "just plain wrong!"  In fairness to the installer, these may have been "temporary" repairs that got forgotten or no one ever got back to for proper completion----out of sight out of mind.

 Charles Buell

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