Heating and Plumbing, Oh My!

Would someone tell me why it is that when you’re expecting a house full of company for the holidays that some major thing will break just before the first guest arrives? Or, in my case, my kitchen faucet. (Hello, Mr. Plumber? HELP!)

Any of you out there with a furnace that started dying just before Christmas? Sure, you could ask some professional like Maryland central heating repair why this happens, but I’ll give you my opinion first. I think it’s some universal law similar to Murphy’s Law: if something can go wrong, it will.

Let’s talk plumbing because right after New Year’s that’s what I’ll be doing. The night before our Christmas guests began arriving, my kitchen faucet suddenly, with no warning whatsoever, decided to break. Something is messed up with the valve that bypasses the spray attachment and the faucet. Or that’s what I got from the explanation my husband devised.

Ever since, the spray hose dangles in the sink so you can press it’s button, then turn on the water, and you get water shooting from the sprayer and the faucet. Then you can release the sprayer, and the water continues to run. If you don’t first press the sprayer, no water comes out of the faucet. How unbelievably irritating, and how inconvenient.

Takeaway Truth

Heating, cooling, and running water are three items we take for granted. We never know how convenient they are until they become a major inconvenience.

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