My friend Scott seems to have worse plumbing problems than me, but it doesn’t mean I’m not going to tell you about mine.

The pressure valve on my water heater appeared to be leaking, so I got another pressure valve and planned on installing it on Friday evening.  Don’t know why because if something went wrong I would have been looking for a plumber on Saturday, but I was confident.  So, to change the pressure valve you want to relieve the pressure in the tank — or so I’m told.  So, I shut off the main water.  At that time it occurred to me that perhaps something was just caught in the valve and not allowing it to close completely.

So, I opened the valve up in hopes that it would flush out anything stuck in there.  And lo and behold, it did.  I was done with my repairs in no time.  I had time to spend with the kids.  My wife and I stayed up late watching a movie.  What a great night.

As I’m climbing into bed, my wife asks me why the rug in the bathroom is soaking wet.  WHA?!?!?

Turns out, when I turned the main water back on in the house and opened up the faucets to get the air out of the line, the first faucet I used was the one in the bathroom.  Apparently the pressure was not kind to the hot water shut off valve under the sink.  When I opened the vanity doors I was presented with a leaking valve and a bunch of soaking wet hair products.  Fortunately, when I turned the shut off vavle closed, it held and stopped leaking.

So, on Saturday I got up, went to the hardware store and picked up a new shut off valve and some thread tape.  Turns out, I was all out and would have had a hard time replacing that pressure valve anyway.  An hour later the water was back on without any leaks.  Man I hate plumbing.