A Plumber at 4:30am?

Stumbling in to the bathroom at 4:30 this morning (and boy am I glad I got straight up without hitting snooze several times) I stood on the bathroom mat and immediately had wet feet. Not good. But that's what I get for not checking my handiwork the night before.

Last night I'd replaced the flapper valve and refill/flusher unit in our toilet tank, and hand-tightened the plastic nuts as per the directions, but when you're dealing with plumbing "hand-tight" is rarely tight enough.

Downstairs to the garage I went, got my multigrips, returned to our bathroom, and slowly and carefully tightened the nut connecting the water main to the tank. Then just to be sure I also tightened the nut underneath that holds the refill unit in place.

When I checked water was still slowly leaking out, very slowly, so I tightened the nut a bit more, wiped the hose and again checked for leaks, then tightened the nut a bit more, and so on. It was a slow process that took close to half an hour but eventually I was confident the water had stopped leaking, or at least confident enough to get in the shower. I think everything is good now, but I won't know for sure until tonight when I can check it out over a longer period of time.

Imagine if I'd really needed a Plumber at 4:30 in the morning, instead of being one.