If it drips 24/7, the on/off hot/cold mix valve is allowing water to flow 24/7. If there is dripping or spraying from any unwanted part of the shower head or piping or hoses while the water is on, the problem is right there where the unwanted spraying is coming from. Brief drips for a couple minutes after the water flow is first turned off are also likely to be leaky/loose connections up at the shower head.
It’s 100% clear what @Chefguy meant in his explanation to us. He has a mix valve problem.
What I have noticed with my building maintenance folks is although I give a nice detailed description in my service request, what they get is “leak in shower”. Which, for a not real smart tech, could be a problem either at the head like you seem to have, or a problem at the valve like @Chefguy has.
I do know my guys will do the easiest maybe-fix first every time if I let them. If I’m there, and I can slow them down enough to think, and if their English is good enough (maybe not a problem in MN, but certainly is around here in FL) and if I remember short simple sentences, I can usually get the right thing done the first time. Otherwise, not so much.
Perfectly natural. The water that was in the shower head is just dripping out. Hard to diagnose
the ‘Snake Part’. But suspect it would be a very simple fix.
To continue the plumbing theme, we’re having some much-needed renovation done. We found a really good contractor who’s replaced all our toilets, installed nice ceramic tiles in the downstairs bathroom, and he and his helper have completed demolition and started rebuilding the main bathroom upstairs. He’s charging a really reasonable amount for all the work he’s doing, and he’s fixing a lot of things that weren’t built right originally.
I’d be deliriously happy about everything - except that he and his helper are both heavy smokers. They don’t smoke in the house, but after they’ve worked inside all day, the entire house just stinks of stake smoke from their clothes. It was 48° F yesterday evening, and we ended up opening all the windows to air the place out before bed. I’m glad we’re getting all the work done now, because I’m not sure I’d hire them again, despite the quality of the work.
A few months back I came home to a very happy, excited gf. She had just scored excellent seats to see Don McLean in concert on November 10th. I was surprised. I told her I didn’t realize she liked Vincent or American Pie. She deflated. She was thinking of some sort of Don Henley/Glenn Frye mashup.
So, last night was the concert. We went out for dinner with another couple who were attending. Great meal, fun time. Not a sellout show, but a respectable crowd.
I have to say Don McLean has balls. At 78 he is still writing new songs. He did an hour of songs I’d never heard before, then he did Vincent. Then another twenty minutes of songs that were new to me, then a long drawn out spectacular performance of American Pie. I would have attended just to hear the finale (and might have preferred this).
Tubi isn’t bad, either, but their commercial breaks sometime freeze up and I’ve discovered if you press “play/pause,” a few times, the clock in the upper left corner of the screen will advance.
The first time I decided to watch something on FreeVee I hadn’t realized that it came with commercials. I had figured that since I had Prime TV that meant no ads on any of their channels.
I remember you bringing this up before in an older thread, about your girlfriend accidentally getting the tickets but hoping that it was still going to be an enjoyable time, and I’m glad that it was indeed a good concert.
It’s been a bad day, I’m in a bad mood, we started potty training my kid today and I wouldn’t call it a spectacular failure (he’s at least willing to try), but things are not going to plan. My husband is in a bad mood too. I’ve mostly been trying to avoid interacting with anyone in my house so they don’t have to deal with my funk. All that said…
We need to talk about Blippi.
When I first saw Blippi, in his too-high pants and orange bowtie, I thought, “cute.”
My husband immediately hated Blippi, but it took me some time. It took a steady stream of Blippi over the course of the last couple of weekends to be convinced this guy and his friend Meekah need to be launched into the moon.
Blippi jumps around a lot and has an irritatingly funny voice, so he’s kind of like a knock-off of Pee-Wee Herman, minus any actual skill. His ouvre consists mainly of visiting vaguely interesting child-friendly places and ad-libbing every six seconds with the most innane comments imaginable. In any given fifteen-minute episode I’m guessing there are approximately 20 of each, “Wow!” “This is fun!” “How cool!” It doesn’t matter whether they’re playing in a ball pit or learning to tap dance or riding a train. “Wow!” “Amazing!” “This is fun!” Nothing appears to have been planned or thought out in terms of providing educational content for children. “Wow! Amazing! This is fun!” They routinely screw up and don’t even bother with a second take.
Blippi has an estimated net worth of $26,000,000.
My son loves Blippi and positively adores his shrill friend Meekah. When I say loves, I mean he actively engages with the content - if they’re learning to dance, he’s trying to learn the steps, too. This is rather unusual for him.
I don’t think we’ll see the end of Blippi anytime soon.
There are plenty of parents of now 30-somethings who would find Blippi quite the improvement over Barney the Dinosaur. Whole lotta hate for that character after enough repetition. And gosh do little kids lurve them some repititiion.
Boys typically potty train later than girls do, and in my extended family’s experience, kids on the spectrum can take even longer. He may just not be able to potty train to your schedule. Don’t get frustrated by it; it’ll happen.
The frustration was more that our baseline data was pretty much worthless, so the trip training interval was too long, and also the waterproof underwear I got for him were too big, so he’ll be in pull-ups until Monday. So what really failed were all my readiness attempts. We went from having a concrete plan to completely winging it. (If that’s not parenthood, I don’t know what is.)
In a couple of weeks he’ll start ABA and they will help with all of this, so the stakes aren’t even particularly high.
The main issue is that both Dad and I are in a foul mood today. I’ve been sick, he’s getting over being sick and I don’t know why, but I woke up mad and depressed. My son was an absolute angel today compared to his cranky parents. I guess all the stress this week finally got to us.
Tomorrow we’re using a shorter interval and we’ll see how it goes. This is mostly Dad’s problem because I’ll be visiting a friend. I really, really, really need the break.
Between your job, your husband’s job, and your son, you guys have 3+ full-time jobs and only 24 hours in a day. I don’t know how you’ve held it together as well as you have!