Taking a shower

At last! We can take a shower in Sousse. :-) Why did I put this off? It only took 15 minutes. No, I didn't hire a plumber. After four weeks trying to get our hot water heater fixed, easy jobs are mine.

 

Our first shower head in Sousse.

We had a hand held shower head to use in the bath, but it wasn't too hand for washing Sue's beautiful long hair. Now that we have hot water, I thought it best to drill some holes in the wall and mount a real shower head. This one cost about $7.50, with all the hardware. A pretty good buy really.

Wish we could have purchased one of those fancy Amazon Plumber Shop Showerheads, but really, who needs a water filter on their showerhead? I'd bump my head on that Aquasana filtered shower system. ;-D

I had trouble getting our new showerhead to point in the correct direction. It wanted to spray the wall. Kais, the hardware store owner, told me I would need to tighten the screw that holds the shower head in position. I did as good as I could with our Phillips head screwdriver, but I couldn't get it tight enough. :-(

Then I remembered that cool pocket screwdriver someone gave us in USA, before our departure overseas. I grabbed it out of my toolbox and gave it a twirl. Yes! It gave me the leverage to get another half a turn. :-)

 

I searched Amazon.com for this handy pocket screwdriver, but I couldn't find it. Let me know if you do!

Joshua feeding turtles

Our neighbor in our building has several of these turtles in the garden by or back door.

I debated with myself, whether I should rotate this photo correctly, with Joshua above. What do you think?

Sink drain - water heater

Out with the old.

In with the new.

Why did I bother replacing this drain? We found that the pipe down to the septic tank was one of two entry points in our bathroom for some nasty large cockroaches. Unfortunately, plumbers here are too rare. So instead of waiting for days, I spent 45 minutes and fixed it myself.

We're still waiting on parts to fix our water heater.

Our Saunier Duval water heater in need of parts.

The gray box on the right is the main part that needs to be replaced. When I bought the parts for the bathroom sink, I asked where I could find the parts myself. Might do that tomorrow. I think I can do the replacement myself, one screw and one clip hold it in place.

Rebuilt the toilet

It was a major job, taking about two hours of patient dis-assembly, cleaning and reassembly. It was hot and humid today too. Sweat was pouring off me, as I worked in that little restroom. New parts are on the seat. Old parts are in the red bucket. The silver hose, coming from the wall on the left, is what is used instead of toilet paper.

Electrician at our house

He was a hard working fellow. I ended up spending 5 1/2 hours with him, as he fixed various problems.

Wonder what an inspector in USA would think about this mess.