{"id":3460,"date":"2012-02-10T18:15:36","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T02:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.wavewithoutashore.cwgservices.org\/?p=3460"},"modified":"2012-02-10T18:15:36","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T02:15:36","slug":"we-think-think-we-have-the-drain-solved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/we-think-think-we-have-the-drain-solved\/","title":{"rendered":"We think&#8230;think&#8230;we have the drain solved."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three plumbers over 4 years have said they couldn&#8217;t do it. WE think we&#8217;ve done it. It took some creative work and in one case manufacturing (via silicone glue and nested pipes) our own adapter, but we have gotten the &#8216;irreplaceable&#8217; vertically joined elbow (a 3 way with a right angle) out of the works (reminds me of Jordin Kare&#8217;s filk about the engineer who designed a part that couldn&#8217;t even be cast&#8230;)&#8212;and routed the tub drain in a gentle horizontal U back to the vertical wastewater (overflow drain) pipe and on to the iron pipe that connects to the main drain. This gets that right-angle turn in the no-longer-manufactured miracle-connector out of the picture and should give us a trouble free (and highly replaceable) connection.<\/p>\n<p>This all started two days ago when poor Jane went to take a relaxing bath, tried to open the drain, and the overflow plate\/drain control fell off in her hand leaving a honking great hole in the tub.<\/p>\n<p>It looks so civilized now. If this pipe route works, we&#8217;ll have done what several plumbers refused to tackle.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three plumbers over 4 years have said they couldn&#8217;t do it. WE think we&#8217;ve done it. It took some creative work and in one case manufacturing (via silicone glue and nested pipes) our own adapter, but we have gotten the &#8216;irreplaceable&#8217; vertically joined elbow (a 3 way with a right angle) out of the works [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}