I’d had this photo of the instructions for changing the stove from natural gas to propane. It looked like a simple job.
The plumbers showed up just after lunch and I wasn’t ready. I showed them the guts of the stove and I managed to get this photo of the rest of the instructions. In the center you can see where it says “orifice cup”. Yup, we needed parts, hard to find parts, to convert it. And a manual that had the settings for the pressure. I had neither.
My old (and filthy) stove, being propane, has what appears to be the cups at the end of the pipes near the pilot lights.
The new stove doesn’t, there’s a large gap there.
The other problem is the plate with model number, etc is obliterated. So I spent the afternoon taking photos of the stove in hopes of The Stove Lady being able to identify the model and letting me know if she has the parts.
It’s always something… and I bet it won’t be cheaper either.
I’d needed the plumbers to fix the dripping faucet in the upstairs tub also. That turned into a hairball too. First they thought it was the sink faucet, because my son had left it dripping. It doesn’t leak, people just don’t shut it off all the way.
So the plumbers had gone to get a new faucet and when I saw it I couldn’t imagine how they’d mount it on the wall. Well, of course it was the wrong faucet.
So they went up to look at the tub faucet before returning the sink faucet, and discovered that because it was 40 years old, the whole kit and caboodle would have to be taken out. Fortunately, my husband had never finished behind the tub, so access is possible, not easy, but possible. But it’s going to cost a whole lot more to do than I thought. But it should be good for another 30 years…
They will be back on Wednesday morning to do that. In the afternoon my tenant and the contractor will be here to determine where my tenant will dig the holes for the contractor to put the supports into.
So another busy chaotic day on Wednesday.