Do you remember when you were young and all the adults seemed to say that “everything was better when they were young”.<\/p>\n
This was usually followed by a roll of the yes from everyone in the room who was under eighteen.<\/p>\n
Well… it’s happened.<\/p>\n
This morning I said that everything used to be better!<\/p>\n
I got a call from my mum to say that water was pouring out of her sink.<\/p>\n
When we got there it turned out that the connections had dropped off the wast.<\/p>\n
Why?<\/p>\n
Because there’s a hot water tap on the sink and the pipes are made of plastic.<\/p>\n
In their intelligence, the pipes under sinks are now all made of plastic. The wast pipe connects to the sink downpipe with a bit of rubber.<\/p>\n
That’s it!<\/p>\n
There’s no connecting thread to screw it on to, just a super-smooth piece of plastic and bit of rubber that you tighten on to it.<\/p>\n
I mean… WTF?!<\/p>\n
When you have heat (boiling water) on plastic… the plastic expands. Then the connectors slide off.<\/p>\n
It’s GCSE physics.<\/p>\n
When they made pipes from copper and brass this never happened.<\/p>\n
But, because they only make them in plastic now (as far as I know), we’ve got to build a shelf in the cupboard under the sink specifically to hold the waste up so it can’t move down.<\/p>\n
I mean seriously!<\/p>\n
We have to build a shelf to hold a pipe up because they don’t have a way of attaching properly.<\/p>\n
Hey ho.<\/p>\n
Back to business. Have a great day.<\/p>\n
Ciao,<\/p>\n
Michael<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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