Plumbing Success

We had our first major home fix. When my cousin Lindsay was in town she made the observation that our front bathroom (the only other one in the house other than the master) does not have hot water in the shower. CRAP! Well after determining that we do have hot water in that bathroom, it was fine coming out of the sink, Josh went to Home Depot to ask about what it could be. The plumbing guy had heard of this problem before, supposedly a common problem with Moen faucets. There is a piece inside that controls the hot water and when we turned the faucet to hot it wasn't working right so the water just shut off. So the guy tells Josh what he needs and the process, a fairly straight forward and simple process. Or at least thats what we thought. Today we went and bought the part and got started. Easy enough to start, turn off the water, take off a few pieces and we find the part that we need to replace. Now getting this piece out proved to be not such an easy process. It ended up being about a 3 hour process (and 3 trips to Home Depot) to get this one little piece out. Once we got that sucker out the rest of the process went smoothly! We had a small mishap putting the faucet back together but it was easily fixed. So we now have hot water in that shower!

So we have survived and fixed our first major home issue! Hopefully there are not any more of those in the foreseeable future!