Ross wears many hats in his life right now. He has the obvious...son, husband, father, friend, accountant...but did you know he also has a few other hidden hats that he wears every now and then?! I have to say after 15 years of knowing him, and being married to him for almost 11 years, I have recently learned about some of these other hats he wears!
One hat that is very handy and saved us a lot of money is that of plumber! One Friday in January he came home for lunch and I had just gone downstairs to start a load of wash. When I walked down in the basement I saw a big puddle of water on the floor and water very steadily dripping from the ceiling. I called Ross down right away. I had just taken a shower and we thought somehow a pipe had burst from the shower in our bedroom (on the second floor) and was leaking down to the basement. He started looking around right away to see what he could find. He called me Dad from some advice, too, but kept on searching for the water leak.
He thought to look in our mud room to see if the leak could be there. When we moved into our house the washer and dryer was in the now mud room, right off the kitchen and garage. We moved our washer and dryer to the basement and turned that room into a mud room. The hookup for the washer was still there, so we covered it with bead board and didn't think anything else of it. Well, when Ross was searching for the leak he looked at the bench in the mud room and found it was wet. He figured something was happening with the hookup behind the wall, so tore off the bead board and found the source of the leak! He rigged up a hose to let it leak into the utility sink and the next day was able to close up the old hookup and fix our plumbing problem. He bought a new board to put up and for only about $40 he fixed our plumbing problem!
He also wears an electrician hat! We bought a treadmill last month and after Ross got it assembled he plugged it in and turned it on, only to have it not work! He quickly realized we needed a dedicated outlet for it to be plugged into. He went to Lowe's and bought a few electrical supplies and created a new electrical outlet for us and our treadmill now works!
I never knew Ross was so handy! I'm very thankful for his ability to think through issues we have and fix them. It saves us a lot of money! Thanks for being so handy, Ross!
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Don't forget I'm a pretty accomplished painter too!
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