I felt so helpless....

When I lived in an apartment, I asked my partner to change the fixtures in the bathroom tub. When the old fixtures refused to budge, I pleaded with him to stop. I do know a bit about plumbing. Of course he didn't listen and he broke the faucet and water gushed out into the tub. There was not shut off valve for individual apartments so the water ran all night long. I was so afraid I would get in trouble for it. The next morning, everything got fixed by the maintenance man and I never let my bf touch another plumbing problem again!

This post of yours really got me thinking. I don't know one thing about plumbing and the apartment I'm currently living in has maintenance personnel so I really haven't worried about it. But now I'm thinking of finding another place by my own and you really made me think that I have to learn this stuff. I think I have to learn not only about plumbing but also maintenence of my car and house. Hmmm, thanks for the heads up. ~

Was it the actual faucet? or was it the handle?. the handle and you couldnt turn it to turn it off. a pair of plyers wo9uld have done the job... But yes there are plenty of things that you should learn hoe to do in your house hold incase of an emergency that way you dont have to wait on anyone and possible risk someones or your own life waiting.

hi,wow..it was a helpless day for you...i dont know about plumbing but i remember i experience the same way too, what i did i put a piece of clothes to the faucet..

I know how to turn off water, gas and electricity. I know something about plumbing, i have to be because i don't have a partner and my family doesn,t live close by.

i dont think about plumbing...but my partner, samily always help me...so do anything make happy for somme one

yeah, i just understand about your feeling. its just really annoying when we were in the middle of doing something and suddenly its getting stuck cause we need any helping from anyone or our partner however, as long as i can, i tried my best to handle it when my partner wasn't home

i can fix most things,but a couple of our sinks for some god unknown reason have no shut off valves underneath (they're really old sinks).so,if i can't,i shut off the main til someone comes home to help.

Maybe you should change your faucet.....LOL

Hi dear sad to hear about this, but i am sure its not worse , what if u had soap all over ur body and it broke down and u cant turn it ON??? so in ur case u have to face water loss but atleast ur bath was done. and other thing if u have some tools at home like plier etc then u atleast can turn it off with them and later ur hubby or plumber can fix it Take care

Oh dear poor you I can imagine how you felt. I haven't got a partner so have to be somewhat practical so I would have just turned the stopcock off and then called someone to help. I don't know anything about plumbing myself though. I hope it is all sorted now. Ellie:D

I am no good at plumbing no, my hubby is though as he took a course on it and so he is the hero in our house. Luckily we have only had little disasters, the last one being that the radiator started to leak and would not stop and so my hubby figured out what was wrong with it and fixed it!! I think it is worth having some of these kinds of skills though, life would be so much easier if we could just learn it all from home and then we would not have to rely on others to come and help us out!!

hell there! sorry to hear about the bad news, i guess you havent tried shutting off the main water valve coz you didnt mention it. anyway if that thing happens again that is all you have to do same thing if there is a shortage in electricity must shut off the main electric circuit. i always tried to know some of the household stuff and be able to do the "handy jobs" just in case my husband is not around, i have experienced that before but i always know what to turn off so it dont mess - dont worry we all need to learn and grow so i guess by now you would want to learn stuff in regards of handiness LOL. i am just asking my husband to teach me electrical wiring soon as well as car engine so i know what to do if he is not around, i hate the feeling of being helpless and i want to make my self prepared in case something happen. i know it is not easy but at least i can try. i am very lucky that my husband is a very handy man, he knows a lot of stuff and he always tries to fix things on his own, he is also knowledgeable of science and medicine so most of the time he do all the checking to me haha! anyway, i hope you are feeling much better now and that you are no longer helpless, at least you can look back at it and says to your hubby... "look i can make a river in our home" LOL takecare!

After reading your article,I think I should do one thing as follows: Just to learn more about the facilities so as one day I can solve the problems that trouble my love.

No I haven't but I will try and fix it myself if I don't break it first...lol But most of the time I can get the job done and if not it waits until the hubby gets home and than he can work on it for a bit normally he knows more about it than I do anyway!! :)

As my husband understands that I know only a little about plumbing, so he had told me before if there is any faucet licking or couldn’t turn off any faucet, what I have to do is to turn off the nearest valve in the water supply line to cut off the water of the part concerned. Then the other faucet could still be used if they are not sharing the common control valve. He would then get the thing repaired when he comes back. You are right checapricorn, we have to learn how to tackle the problems of plumbing, lighting, cooking gas supply, first aids and other household problems as well, so we won’t get panic at the very moment when we encounter such difficulty.

Hi there Che! I haven't experienced anything like that thankfully. I don't know anything about plumbing at all. I should, though. I will ask my husband or cousin to show me what should be done when something like that happens.

Hello checapricorn, I am not good at fixing things. I always make things worse. The only one who can repair things at home is definitely my husband. I even need his help to just change the bulb. I rather not to try to touch anything damaged in the house as I always make thing from bad to worse...

My dad can fix it when hes not at work...but when he goes to work hes gone for two weeks. Otherwise I hire someone or call my friends dad to help me out. I do know theres valves in the closet that i can turn off the water from running into the bathttub and under the sink are the valves for the sink taps. I have to find out where the valve for the propane is for the furnace...I think it might be the one on the tank outside.

No I don't know anything about plumbing. All I know is where the tap is to turn all the water off in the house.