Relief on the one hand
Mar. 5th, 2012 11:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
monkey5sToday the water company showed up to install the new RFID meter. Twice they had sent me the big envelope of forms to fill out and return- mostly a set of legal documents where I was supposed to give them an easement of 12 1/2 feet on either side of the curb box. Yep, they wanted me to sign- and get notarized- papers stating that it was FINE with me if they accidentally trashed 25 feet of my property. Since it was not, in fact, fine with me, I never sent them the notarized documents. So they sent a letter saying they would do the work anyway. No surprise there. I just didn't know when they would do it.
This noon as I was getting my breakfast, I saw the water company truck towing the trailer with the backhoe, stop at the corner. Sure enough, he pulled up in front of my house. He had the adorable, tiny little backhoe unloaded and set in place when I got the front door opened and went out. I was a little bit concerned that the gas company had not marked their curb box, only the line across the length of the property. The guy called it in, and it seems the gas company had used a new automatic cut-off valve when they replaced the line to the house back in 2009. I told him that they still had to run the line from the house across the public median just to the one side of where the water box was. So he said he'd keep the hole to the other side of the water box. I asked if the hitching post would be a problem and he said it was not in his way at all.
They knocked when they were about to shut off the water, and it was off for maybe ten minutes.
Afterward, I checked the faucets in the downstairs bathroom and the kitchen, and they had some surging at first, but were fine. One of the other documents in the big envelope from the water company had been instructions that I was supposed to get some pressure-handling device installed on the water line directly before the hot water tank, because this procedure of replacing the water meter might create pressure surges that could cause the hot water heater to rupture.
Yes, the water company said they might accidentally blow up my hot water heater. But, you know, no money for a plumber, much less for some mysterious pressure device. I would just have to hope that they didn't destroy it. And it appears that it's fine. At least so far.
Tomorrow morning I will go upstairs for a shower, and see how the pipes upstairs are handling things. But I don't expect there to be a problem.
The only down thing today was that Singer has reverted to not eating again. He didn't eat at all yesterday, this morning I couldn't get him to take even milk and yogurt, and I was just exhausted- and depressed- from trying. Fortunately, this evening he did eat about a spoonful of food. And hopefully he'll build on that tomorrow.
This noon as I was getting my breakfast, I saw the water company truck towing the trailer with the backhoe, stop at the corner. Sure enough, he pulled up in front of my house. He had the adorable, tiny little backhoe unloaded and set in place when I got the front door opened and went out. I was a little bit concerned that the gas company had not marked their curb box, only the line across the length of the property. The guy called it in, and it seems the gas company had used a new automatic cut-off valve when they replaced the line to the house back in 2009. I told him that they still had to run the line from the house across the public median just to the one side of where the water box was. So he said he'd keep the hole to the other side of the water box. I asked if the hitching post would be a problem and he said it was not in his way at all.
They knocked when they were about to shut off the water, and it was off for maybe ten minutes.
Afterward, I checked the faucets in the downstairs bathroom and the kitchen, and they had some surging at first, but were fine. One of the other documents in the big envelope from the water company had been instructions that I was supposed to get some pressure-handling device installed on the water line directly before the hot water tank, because this procedure of replacing the water meter might create pressure surges that could cause the hot water heater to rupture.
Yes, the water company said they might accidentally blow up my hot water heater. But, you know, no money for a plumber, much less for some mysterious pressure device. I would just have to hope that they didn't destroy it. And it appears that it's fine. At least so far.
Tomorrow morning I will go upstairs for a shower, and see how the pipes upstairs are handling things. But I don't expect there to be a problem.
The only down thing today was that Singer has reverted to not eating again. He didn't eat at all yesterday, this morning I couldn't get him to take even milk and yogurt, and I was just exhausted- and depressed- from trying. Fortunately, this evening he did eat about a spoonful of food. And hopefully he'll build on that tomorrow.
