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So the area under my washer valves is pretty nasty. As I am putting 5 1/4 baseboard in the laundry I figure I will cut all this 40 year old stuff out. Once I do I take some 1x3 and plate behind the cut for something to screw to for the new drywall patch. Surely it will make for a more level and easy float.

So what are the odds a sighted person with above room temp IQ would put a 2" drywall screw directly through a 1/2" copper pipe. Well let me tell ya, in my world it's about 100% possible.

I hate housework!



I good friend of mine put some new wainescoat and chair rail up in his dining room about a year ago and all was good till about a month ago when he noticed water leaking in his basement. After locating the leak he pulled the wainscoat off the wall and noticed a wet spot on drywall and after cutting a hole in the drywall he found that he shot a nail thru a copper water pipe but it was sealed up until the nail rusted away and that is where he found his leak, so you aren't the only one out there!