This is why I can't have nice things

[james_davis_nicoll]

Bus went missing. A bunch of us at the Stanley Park Mall split on a cab. That got me a few blocks from my place. Slog home, put a snack in the microwave, the power dies before I can hit on. I put the frozen snack back in the freezer, wait the power cut out. Power comes back on. I turn on the microwave.

White smoke comes out. See, I forgot to put the food back in before turning the microwave back on....

Fuck fuck fuck.

At least I didn't burn the house down.

Well, I know what my next major purchase is....

Any recommendations for cheap, reliable brands of microwave ovens?

Comments

Re: for all that is holy

[brooksmoses]

Does the shower now have a cut-off valve with an access panel in the cut-through wall, I hope?

Re: for all that is holy

[derekl1963.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of anyone providing a backup shutoff valve for any faucet in a house. But it *is* best practice to ensure that showers and tubs back up against an adjacent room so they can be accessed at need from the back through the drywall rather than from the front through the tile or fiberglass.

Re: for all that is holy

[brooksmoses]

I'm not sure what you mean by "backup"; every faucet I've ever seen in halfway-well-constructed houses has the control valve that you actually use in normal use, and a shutoff valve before it so you can replace washers in the control valve or whatever. kithrup was saying that his had no shutoff valve at all, aside from presumably the one for the whole house's water supply; thus the problem in replacing the control valve. So I was hoping one was added.

(Edit: Hmm, actually, I may just be thinking about kitchen/bathroom sink faucets, where the shutoff valve is easily accessible below the sink. I'm not sure whether many of the other houses I've been in have had shutoff valves for tub/shower faucets or not.)

The house my parents built (well, designed and general-contracted for and had other people build, mostly) actually had the showers backing up against a partition wall within the bathroom, and they put in plywood access panels in those walls so you merely had to unscrew them rather than chopping up the drywall, and the shutoff valve was behind that. Very convenient, and I'd forgotten that that arrangement of things was unusual.

Re: for all that is holy

[derekl1963.livejournal.com]

Yes, you're thinking of sink faucets. Shower and tub faucets almost never have separate shutoff valves - just the control valves.