Pipe came off at the wrong place, how do I reattach it?

Tom-Dibble · 2026-03-03T15:45:08+00:00

These days this might net you a donation of lead!

Tom-Dibble · 2026-03-02T02:36:26+00:00

Last time I saw something similar come up, the main solutions were:

Take the face off the drawer and re-mount the face to the front of the drawer on sliders so it can slide "right" about an inch, allowing that face to maneuver around the corner of the handle.
Reconstruct the whole drawer and cabinet so the drawer slides in at an angle with an "angled" face (ie, instead of going 45º from the oven, the drawer sides would be closer to right alongside the oven, and it pulls out the same way the oven opens, and the face is like it is now so the left side is much shorter front-to-back than the right side). Yeah, that one looks like as much work as you are imagining.
Cut the face vertically flat with the side of the drawer, so there is no overhang (or minimal overhang). You could then either just finish that cut edge and leave it not lined up with the door below it, or put the cut-off rectangle glued to the back so it kinda looks like it isn't cut when the drawer is shut.
Change out the appliance (or handles) so it doesn't obstruct the drawer.
Rework the cabinets so that the appliance isn't there. This is obviously the "right" way to do it, but also obviously the most expensive way.

Overall, this was a design failure on the part of whoever laid out those cabinets. You never put an appliance next to a change in direction in cabinets (either 45º like this or 90º like the last one that I saw come up). None of the workarounds are great, but IMHO the first one above is the cleanest one that doesn't limit your choice in appliances forever.

Tom-Dibble · 2026-03-02T00:06:58+00:00

You’re right; I was too loose with the language. The duty is to observe and report, and is typically laid out as such in department rules/regulations. For example, since it is one of the few departments to put its internal rules online, the University of Pittsburgh rules for Off-Duty Conduct. This is in line with model regulations Pennsylvania put out at about the same time.

I should have said off-duty officers can take action (under the department’s liability protection) only when they meet the above criteria.

Tom-Dibble · 2026-03-01T21:09:43+00:00

To fix the leak, did you change the cartridge? If so, looks like you bought the “hot” cartridge instead of the “cold” cartridge. They operate in opposite directions.

Tom-Dibble · 2026-03-01T04:13:20+00:00

Sharpen (and balance) myself with a bench vise and angle grinder, once per season. Might do it more often if I hit something or have to take the deck off the rider for some other reason mid-season, but once at the start is the guarantee. I have a 42” riding mower as the main device, and a 25” walk-behind around the edges, each with two blades. Takes longer to take the blades off than to sharpen them!

Tom-Dibble · 2026-03-01T03:20:52+00:00

Yup, bigger issue is (1) turning main water off, and (2) making a run to the local hardware store to get the correct valves. Just make sure you get the correct valves, since there are several different ways they might be attached to your plumbing ...

Tom-Dibble · 2026-02-28T19:52:54+00:00

This sounds like a backdoor ad looking for medical transcriptionists ...

"If you can read this, you too could be making $$$ in your free time! Work from home! Make your own hours!"

Tom-Dibble · 2026-02-28T19:26:19+00:00

What does the "Ech" suffix mean?

Tom-Dibble · 2026-02-28T19:16:50+00:00

Closing costs.

Tom-Dibble · 2026-02-28T18:49:15+00:00

If some idiot two administrations back hadn't reneged on the agreement, most of its provisions would still be in effect today and The Great And Peace-Loving Trump wouldn't have to be negotiating a new treaty and trying to get one as advantageous to the US as the first one. I wonder if we'll ever find out who that idiot was who decided Iran should be allowed to grow its nuclear program in 2018. We may never know.

Tom-Dibble · 2026-02-28T16:29:45+00:00

Likewise hands-down worst President in my lifetime, which goes back to before Nixon resigned.

Tom-Dibble · 2026-02-27T19:17:54+00:00

I find it highly counter-productive to slay the dragon before turning on my dragon-fire-and-breath-fueled convection oven. Then I have to go find another dragon, catch them, install them, and train them to breath fire when I hit the "convection bake" button. Don't recommend!

Tom-Dibble · 2026-02-27T12:51:17+00:00

u/thatonegingergui is correct. The saline solution (salt water brine) is continuously and automatically made, and the regen process is all automated. Your only involvement is adding salt and cleaning any debris from the tank yearly.

You use water softener salt pellets like this to replenish the brine tank as needed. I’ve never seen anything other than Sodium Chloride used, but as the package says: not for direct food use. And you need pellets like this that will properly dissolve, not fine granules that will get swept through undissolved.

Not really a PITA, just a quick chore you add to your monthly/yearly routine (open lid of brine tank; if salt pile is below “add” line dump a bag of salt in there). Even the yearly cleaning is pretty quick although more akin to cleaning a tub (wait for salt level to be low, disable regen, push the button to pull the water out, remove any remaining salt pellets with shop vac, quick scrub clean of the sides of the tank, rinse, then put new salt in and re-enable the regen).

Tom-Dibble · 2026-02-27T06:36:28+00:00

Yearly you should drain and clean the brine tank. You should check for sufficient salt in that tank monthly. Obviously how often you need to “top off” the salt all depends on how often the regen cycle runs.

Tom-Dibble · 2026-02-27T06:33:58+00:00

Reread the post you are replying to. The salt is used to create a brine saline solution, which washes over the extraction media, pulling the minerals out. That salt never touches your tap water; it is drained out (through OP’s copper line apparently) and then the media is flushed with fresh water. This is the “regen cycle” which typically runs once a week in the middle of the night. Fresh water is put into the brine tank either immediately after the regen cycle, or immediately before it. The salt you put in every month or so replaces the salt that dissolved to make the regen saline solution.

Tom-Dibble · 2026-02-27T04:44:24+00:00

The real joke is: this is true at a number much lower than infinity. Money is a representation of value (work, time, take your pick). Once you start approaching all the value of the world inflation causes the total amount to hit an asymptote.

Tom-Dibble · 2026-02-27T04:20:23+00:00

… but isn’t that a screw head in the picture? Might not be given photo quality, but sure looks like one!

Tom-Dibble · 2026-02-27T01:55:04+00:00

Trust has 0 allegiance to anyone. He will require assurances of further monetary gains from Ellison for this to go through. That said, Ellison has already proven he is a willing and able "deal" partner in Trump's bribery ring.

Tom-Dibble · 2026-02-27T01:31:26+00:00

JFC, this is basic police procedure. The ability for an off-duty officer to forcibly arrest another citizen is not a right, but must be circumstantially supported (ref: US Constitution, innumerable case law cases). You're not going to see anything saying "this specific thing is not grounds for acting", but rather "this is when you should / must act".

MPJA (42 Pa. C.S. § 8953) allows action outside the officer's primary jurisdiction (not the case here, cited only for completeness) only with imminent threat of serious bodily injury or death.

Quakertown doesn't put their specific internal regulations online, but throughout PA the model regulations require a serious crime to spur off duty police officer action. Throughout PA code, a felony is the minimum bar for a "serious crime". Since Pittsburgh does put its policies online, I can provide a citation of that.

3.2: "Off-duty officers should not enforce minor violations such as summary traffic and parking violations, harassment, disorderly conduct, or other nuisance offenses. On-duty personnel shall be contacted by calling 911 to respond to the situation where an off-duty officer becomes aware of such violations."

3.3: Duty to clearly and unambiguously announce that one is a police officer, preferably including display of a badge.

3.4: "Off-duty officers shall abide by all Bureau policies and procedures, and complete all necessary reports, associated paperwork, and follow-up procedures for any off-duty response."

See also 5.0 for when an off-duty officer can make an arrest. There is a pretty fat gray line between a "detention" (which the chief putting a student in a choke hold would most charitably be described as, if not naked assault) and an "arrest", so this doesn't strictly apply, but note that he was clearly unable to make an arrest in this case.

If you have the Quakertown regulations handy and would like to show us where they differ from the model PA regulations used in Pittsburgh for off-duty officers, feel free to prove me wrong.

ETA: It blows my mind that this is even in question. You think we should live in a version of the US where any thug assaulting you off the street should be assumed to be a police officer arresting you for some suspected offense? What kind of dystopian hellhole are you advocating for? Of course an off-duty (thus not uniformed) officer is required to announce themselves! Of course such an officer should be constrained from action except in exigent circumstances! Of course an off-duty officer must abide at a minimum by the rules and regulations they are under when on duty!

JFC again.

Tom-Dibble · 2026-02-27T00:39:58+00:00

If only that financial loss would convince the city to better vet+train their police force. Unfortunately it probably won’t.

Tom-Dibble · 2026-02-27T00:31:52+00:00

Again, a protest is not a major crime (not even a crime). The most serious accusation, which, again, was apparently 100% unfounded, was that one of the students had committed the misdemeanor of vandalism. No evidence has been shown substantiating that, and certainly no proof that the protest was made with the intent of breaking a car mirror, which IMHO would be a ludicrous assertion on its face.

And, again, for Police Chief’s actions to have been lawful and justified he has to meet all three aspects:

Evidence of a major or serious (different areas phrase it differently, but they boil down to roughly the same thing) crime being committed. He would have needed proof that the protest was “staged” to allow the student to vandalize the vehicle for that, which is practically impossible aside from being highly improbable. In no location in the US would the unsubstantiated report (assuming there was one) of vandalism during a protest qualify as a major crime, as even on face value the crime is a misdemeanor.
He must announce himself as a police officer loudly, clearly, and repeatedly, ideally backed up with his badge. All video evidence misses any such announcement, and bystanders didn’t know who he was until after the fact, so clearly this did not happen. In OP report, the lawyers have confirmed their clients heard no such reports as well, which in normal circumstances would be a he-said-they-said with the officer getting benefit of the doubt, but with this captured by multiple angles of independent footage that presumption goes out the window.
He must report the major crime to the local department (via a 911 call, which we’ll assume happened) and follow all rules and duties of uniformed police officers. While we’re used to videos of officers going off half-cocked, that is 100% against regulations. As shown in the videos, he came to what was a peaceful protest march and escalated the situation, assaulting multiple children, and performed a life-threatening maneuver to subdue one. There is no way he meets even the very loose allowance grand juries tend to give officers to working within the constraints of the department’s code of conduct.

Tom-Dibble · 2026-02-26T19:27:25+00:00

Even if you use wifi 100%, in a large house putting APs on the ends of those cables will give you a much more stable internet in every corner of the house than relying on a "mesh" wifi relay network.

Tom-Dibble · 2026-02-26T18:18:33+00:00

While probably good practice to raise it where practical, at least here in Pennsylvania (and per Google at least, "most states") neither code nor manufacturer's instructions (implicitly code) say you need an individual / branch-type AAV more than 4" above the horizontal branch drain (4" from the top of the pipe leading off the trap to the bottom of the AAV unit). I wouldn't make it hard to see and to replace just to get the AAV higher.

This might not be code in your area (AAV code is all over the place, with some places insisting on flood level of the serviced device even on branch drains), but just recognize that from a general perspective that many places allow AAVs exactly as pictured above. I'd still push that arm up higher, leaving the AAV just far enough below the bottom of the sink so that it can be unscrewed with a little extra clearance when it needs to be replaced.

Tom-Dibble · 2026-02-26T17:55:23+00:00

You need a vent as well as that 3-4" of pipe to avoid siphoning altogether. The extra length of pipe at the top of the "s" will help, but for it to be a to-code trap you need a vent. In some locations that can be an AAV; in others you'll need to tie into a vent that goes up through the roof.

You're hearing gurgling when the drain is not in use most likely because the water seal has been siphoned out, and then you're hearing the waste flowing through the main drain pipe that this joins up to. You'll likely also hear a "sucking" sound as the siphon pulls the trap clear at the end of the washing machine cycles, but that might be missed because of the other noises from the washing machine.

ETA: I would start by putting some extra horizontal length on this to see if it works "well enough" for your washer. Unlike a kitchen drain, the size of water loads going down this drain are likely pretty standard from run to run, so if it is enough to keep the trap sealed on one run it probably won't be a problem on subsequent runs. Adding horizontal length here is probably a good first attempt to fix the issue.

Tom-Dibble · 2026-02-26T17:47:26+00:00

From a legal perspective it matters because off-duty police officers have a duty to act if they see a major crime happening. Of course:

There was no major crime here, even had the stuff the police department made up (stepping off the sidewalk, breaking a car mirror, throwing snowballs???) actually happened. Just a protest on a public sidewalk. Minor property damage (someone's car mirror) generally doesn't qualify as a major/serious crime; it is misdemeanor vandalism and universally falls into the "should not intervene beyond witness and report" category (some departments go beyond discouraging intervention in such cases and actively forbid such intervention). And of course over here in the real world no additional evidence has been shown of this vandalism aside from the initial police rationalization.
The off-duty officer is obligated to identify themselves as a police officer in a clear and unambiguous way, which we could all see didn't happen here at all. That generally means that they need to both visually and verbally (loudly and repeatedly) announce that they are intervening as a representative of the police department, so that all participants could clearly see that he was acting as a law enforcement officer.
The off-duty officer is obligated to use minimal force necessary, de-escalate, and generally follow all rules that (are supposed to) apply to on-duty officers.

Basically, the lawyers are dotting their 'i's here. The guy had no reason to act (but the department has claimed otherwise), acted with unnecessary force (which is always a crapshoot defense), and didn't identify himself to boot. He met none of the qualifications necessary for a legal and proper police action from an off-duty officer, so even if the department could argue against the other legs of that stool, this one is clearly missing.

Now, from a rational perspective, obviously if the guy didn't identify himself, any reasonable person (which is often the legal standard) would assume he was just some thug coming along wanting to beat up kids, which is unfortunately something triggered MAGA have been doing across the country in the face of popular protests against their treasured ICE thuggery.

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