Inspectors like to post “WHATZIT” pictures, and during my time here at ActiveRain, I have been no exception. Today’s picture will perhaps be no effort at all for most of my readers-----as it is a simple ordinary nail-set. Today’s exercise is more about entertaining you with an exceptionally “inventive” and “unordinary” use of the nail-set. A use that would not likely be the first thing one would think of as a solution for such a problem. Being a recovering New England Yankee, the concept of finding a workable solution to almost any problem is not foreign to me. I posted to my blog awhile back about a similar solution for this problem----but that solution was done with wood. In a way----if you have to choose one as a better solution over the other----I would have to declare the nail-set the winner---but only because it would likely last longer. This solution has worked for a long time----who can argue with success.
Charles Buell
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They're incredibly lucky that they didn't crack the elbow when they pounded the nailset into place.
Wow it's amazing what people won't try. Thanks for sharing.
Hmmm very interesting. Not something I would have thought of the top of my head... ~Rita
Charles - Now that looks like something I would do. The next time I run into a unique problem with my home, guess who I am getting on the horn:)
Charles--People really come up with some strange do-it-yourself fixes don't they?
Alan, you sould try it----you might find it harder to split than you think.
Pat---for sure
Rita---nor me:)
Jason---I will be waiting
Teri---they sure do---no end to the possibilities
Hey, Charles. Not exactly what I expected to see. Wow, Jim
Jim, being able to "predict" that solution would take some doing:)
Was this their version of putting their finger in the dyke.. :) (is that how you spell dyke.. :)
Konnie---that is what I am thinking----either spelling is supposedly OK:)
Looks like they thought the leak was all set until you nailed them.
James---yep. Actually this was not an inspection. I noticed this when I was checking some things for my son and his wife in the basement of their house in NY State.
Well, you have to hand it to 'em, Charles. It worked, right? LOL @ James, too. Gotta give 'em an A for ingenuity.
You know what they say in NY, "if it works for you, who am I to judge?" Not the repair I'd envision.
Kate----gut the flavor in chewing gum goes away over time:)
Heather----hard to argue with success
Suesan---nor me----and I have to resist the genetics to do things like this:)
Mr Charles,
I believe that, as long as they put shoe goo around the tip, before inserting, that meets the applicable codes. I will be the judge on that.
Nutsy
It's like being doctor, isn't it Charlie? Hey doc I got this pain, could you take a look. But in your case it's hey home inspector I got this funny looking thing sticking out my pipe in the basement, could you take a look at it?
Steve,----nothing quite like shoe-goo
James---always great to help family when I can.
Charlie - Ouch! That looks like it might have hurt the funny bone in that elbow!
Charles, interesting use of nail set. Has to work better than the old plumbers candle or tar sticks.
Carol---that would be an owbow
Jack, plus it is always where you can find it.
Charles, I imagine it would be difficult, but not impossible to crack.
And if I were doing the hammering, the chance of cracking would increase to 150%.
Seems to be working better than putty, caulk, rags, or duct tape. All of which are perfectly acceptable plumbing repairs, right?
Alan---maybe so:)
Reuben----it has been this way a long time