Today I called the HOA office as soon as they opened. This time I didn’t talk to Jennifer, but some other woman. This woman dug up a sheet on the plumbing procedures for the building. She said that I didn’t need to shut off the water for the entire building – but just for my condo and the one below me. She said there were four numbered valves in the garage directly underneath my condo that I needed to find and close.<\/p>\n
Okay – that info would have helped me a lot on Saturday OR Sunday… but I digress…<\/p>\n
On my lunch break I went to Lowes (there is one near work) to get the valves. I came armed with an 8.5×11 print out of the picture of the valves in my last blog post below. The first employee (in the plumbing section, mind you) didn’t even know what a valve was or where they were. After walking around for a while I had to get the “section manager” (or whatever his title was). This guy was sure from my picture that I needed a 5\/8″ inlet with a 3\/8″ for the cold and a 5\/8″ – 3\/8″ – 1\/2″ for the hot (he thought the dishwasher connection looked like a 1\/2″ connection). Only problem was – they were all out of the 5\/8″-3’\/8″-1\/2″ valves. We stood there and rummaged through every single box because people usually toss stuff around… nope… nothing…<\/p>\n
So I left Lowes with nothing and ate lunch at Burger King as I needed something fast since I’d wasted almost 45 minutes at Lowes.<\/p>\n
To be continued after work……<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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