House Mysteries and Miracles
What Is This Key For? We wondered what the key hanging on our shower wall was for. Mystery solved when I noticed water still standing from Grant’s bath eight hours previously. It’s the key to taking up the linear drain to find whatever is clogging the pipe. The miracle was that Grant was able to do this easily, after his midnight obsessing and internet searching. In our long tenure as homeowners, we have found usually there is a vast chasm (are chasms anything other than vast?) between an explanation of how to do a repair job and the reality of doing it. Once, as far as we can remember, and only once, did a repair go as planned, without much cursing and at least one additional trip to the hardware store. Unfortunately, we can’t remember what the job was, but we are both sure it happened. In this case, Grant sopped up the water with a bunch of the dog towels (too holey for human use), unlocked the drain, and lifted out the nasty, completely full, hair catcher. Voila, the dra...