Ah, Victorian. I once lived in a little town to the south of here that boasts a huge number of houses built during Victoria's reign. 186, which doesn't sound like a lot, but there are only 17,000 people living there. The "town sport" is renovating these, and some real "gingerbread carpentry" do some of them have. Two of my friends lived in one, and they were so "period" that they wouldn't install central heat or air. I recall the man answering the door in December in a coat and hat.

Yea but think of the sex partys you could have in a crazy house!

Don't put ideas into my head ;) [img]tongue.gif[/img]

<font color="snow">Well we finally got ours out! And the guy did use a crobar or some kind of lever, thanks for the help Moni and Cloudy ;) Now we just need to get the floorboards repaired and the dishwasher fixed [img]tongue.gif[/img] </font>

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YAY!!!!! That's great news!
I hope it gets fixed soon so you can say "Dishpan Hands Begone!" :D
(I still wash pots, pans and plastics in the sink but it sure beats having to wash and dry everything by hand!) [img]smile.gif[/img]
I am happy your troubles are soon to end. [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img]

<font color="snow">aww gee thanks, I would die if I had to do any more dishes ;) </font>

LOL Yes they can if you look at them the right way ;) [img]smile.gif[/img]

Similar problems...lol...yeah that one was a doozy! Not only was the hole in the bedroom wall 8 inches away from the pipe but the cut he had made in the pipe had left it so jagged and butchered it was unreal! I wonder if he actually believed that the electrical tape would work? LOL

In that same house, I called the phone company out to put new wiring in and asked the guy while he was there if he'd remove a jack from one wall that I knew I'd never use.
I heard him chuckle a few seconds after he started...right before he told me "Well you could have done this yourself!"
"No I couldn't have." I told him, "I might have gotten zapped."
He laughed and pointed at the wall while he repeated himself "No, you could have done this yourself!"
I looked to see what he was talking about and the darned jack had just been screwed into the wall! Just the jack! No phone lines anywhere near it! [img]graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
I guess the guy didn't have any place to put it?! [img]graemlins/1dizzy.gif[/img]
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Interesting insight into your life Cloudy - thank you for sharing.

the flush system in the US is very different from the UK. There is something disgustingly mesmeric about watching the contents of your toilet go round, and round and round before disappearing down the hole. [img]smile.gif[/img] In the UK the water just rushes in and makes everything disappear, perhaps that uses more water.

Wors toilet experience is in Crete. The toilet paper doesn't go into the bowl because it would clog the pipes. It goes into a container by the toilet.

That freaked me out the first time I went to Greece. Seems completely bizarre to me, but then Greeks probably think a lot of the stuff we do is weird. Nothing to do with toilets, but I remember waiting on a jetty for a ferry for 3 hours. I was thinking 'it's late, where the ■■■■ is the ferry?' but everyone else was just completely calm about it. The ferry turned up eventually, what more could you want? Compare that to the scenes at Waterloo station if the 17:32 fast train to Portsmouth Harbour doesn't leave until 17:33.

Oh and I noticed the US/UK difference in flushing. Another strange one. [img]graemlins/saywhat.gif[/img]

In my first house, we had a toilet with the tank way up on the wall, about eye level. That thing flushed more completely and used less water than any I've had, since.