Not technically my house, it’s my parents. But I live here so… its still my “home” for the forseeable future.
(My older brother is still living here too lol, so is my maternal grandmother)
So dad was using some weird temporary fix thing on the heater (like the thing in the basement hat heats your entire house), and now it finally officially stopped working.
I feel like I’ve been living in slums for the most of my life lol.
Not really slum-slum, but kinda feels like it.
House looks so… like broken…
spider webs everywhere in the corners lol, so much pest infestation
bathtub water leaking issues
I’m not trying to complain, hey, at least I’m not out on the street and homeless… so I guess I’ll take that… 🤷♂️
But still…
Still… I’m basically just hiding in one room with the space heater turned on… don’t wanna even step outside the room.
This is making my depression much worse… idk why… like I always feel very very depressed at nights and in winters, and when I’m not in the right temperature, extreme colds and extreme heat…
and it just snowed, so…
ugh…
can’t even touch grass… unless I wanna freeze outside and touch snow…
or accidentally stemp on frozen water and fall and then I’d cry…
so…
yeah…
Political atmosphere is just the icing on top of this cake of misery
plus the occasional verbal abuse from family members
(pls don’t tell me something condesending like “just move out lolz” rent costs the same as an average monthly paycheck, not to mention, the utilities service fees that they charge even with 0 usage)
Anyways, greetings from Philly
I hate my life… even though I know a lot of people had it much worse so I have no right to complain really.
Still depressed tho… 🫠
Ugh, I feel like I’m in a minecraft cave or something… like you could get rid of it, then 3-5 months later it spawns again…
whyyy lol
I remember in my ancestral home in Taishan, Guangdong, China, that place is like filled with spider webs near the ceiling of the house and like you need a roomstick to get rid of them.
Omg why I do feel like I live in some weird jungle or something where pests just like to SPAWN in here?
Is Philly a jungle? 🤔 (I mean it had trees before they cut them down to build houses… so I guess it technically is?)
It’s like leaking below on to the 1st floor… like if you take too long in the shower or the water splashes in a certain way, it starts leaking… no clue how that works…
and sometimes it just clogs…
like it doesn’t drain fast enough vs the rate of water being filled…
and it starts leaking when the bathtub gets filled past a certain point (not even overflowing, just like… half way fill or something)
Dad had to fix these stuff because none of us knew how to nor want to.
Where?
Oh yea btw, there was no indoor bathrooms in rural China in 2000s, bit I think it had electricity some basic lighting, and a landline telephone. For bathrooms, its a shared communal bathroom.
Yeah, why wash your dishes, they will be dirty next time you eat. Either clean the spider webs, or stop complaining about them.
On the opposite side of the wall where the controls for the shower/tub are there should be an access panel (typical this is in a different room). Opening that and you may be able to see under the tub. If you look after it is used you may be able to see where the leak is originating. It could be something is loose, or there is a cracked pipe. It may also be fixed by getting a drain zip (long barbed piece of plastic you slide down the drain and then pull out, the barbs should hook a bunch of hair and pull it out. Once all that is gone it should help speed up drainage, and if the leak is small enough that may be enough. There are also drain plungers, like for your toilet but smaller and designed for sinks and tubs. Using that may push crud blocking the drain down the line, again speeding up drainage.
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The silicone caulk that seals the gap between the top of the tub and the wall may have cracked. It’s a tedious task to scrape out old caulk (fresh doesn’t stick to dried silicone, so for repair all the old has to be removed), but ultimately not a difficult one. Applying new silicone is basically squeezing a tube around the tub edge, but requires some attention to detail - can’t leave any gaps - and for inexperienced people is pretty messy, getting silicone all over fingers smoothing and pushing into gaps while it’s still wet, and it never comes out of clothes so wear stuff you don’t care about when sealing.