Before I spend wads of money I wanted to see if I can handle the problem myself.
The hot water in my shower froze and when it unthawed I was unable to turn it off. The bathroom is very small and located on the west side of the house. Only the shower is having the problems. The hot water in the sink turns on fine. I have copper pipes. I know that nothing is busted, just frozen. My question is, do I need to replace the faucet completely(cold water turns on and off fine) or can it be repaired? Also once I get this fixed how do I keep that pipe from freezing again? Our basement is very cold even with the heat on, so is there any kind of insulation I can use to protect the pipe?

Thanks for any advice.
I think they run up from the basement through the wall.

OK OK I know this question has been asked a dozen times but I need something different. The spray bottle doesn’t work, faucet sprayer doesn’t work, tin foil is a joke, and a sticky pad is hilarious but ineffective. I’ve tried locking her in the bathroom for punishment which doesn’t do a thing either. Do I just have a demonic satan cat ( I think that is the case )? Does anyone have any other suggestions. I have even tried putting peppers onto the items she likes to mess with. She has gotten better with not doing it in front of me, now she only gets up there when we can’t see her but because she is sooo fat I can hear her jump down. I can’t handle this anymore.
I am not a cat person, my heart is with dogs, but I have to keep this demon of an animal because it is my fiances. She is about to be put outside to fend for herself. Someone help… I will get rid of the cat which will lead to getting rid of the fiance, but at this point OH WELL!!

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We rented this place about a month in a half ago and we have some problems. It’s a duplex and theres people living upstairs.

So right about the time we moved in, we already started getting problems.
The ceiling in the bathroom tends to leak water whenever the people upstairs shower or use the water and we called the landlord and he sent his father in law who I guess fixes things and put in a new ceiling on it, and it looks very sloppy but we dealt with it.

AND still to this day it leaks, and when we called about it, the landlord will tell us he will handle it and called his father in law again to fix it, but he never showed up.

THEN this morning, I wakeup to my parents yammering and I walk out my room and my parents have buckets in the kitchen because the people upstairs have 5 kids, there ALWAYS running around and I guess one of them left the faucet on upstairs which explains the water.
My dad went upstairs to ask why is there water in his kitchen and the woman replies with a laugh and said my kid left the faucet on and thats it. She didn’t even yell at her kids or anything but I don’t care because we don’t need to come to her for our problems anyway.

I’m getting REAL sick of this place. It was poorly painted, theres only heat in the living room and the ceiling is ready to fall on us.

Should I take this problem to the landlord or just call the city?
Any other options?

where do I begin…part of this is venting and part of this is to hear of other experiences/results or opinions from someone in the field. I appreciate all the time it takes to read through and any input! Thank you!
On May 24th at 11am I was sitting in my Pittsburgh 2nd floor apartment when my fiancé and I began to hear water trickling in our bathroom. When we entered we found that where there had previously been an old water leak stain on the ceiling there was now a steady stream of water coursing down our walls. Which turned into a waterfall that literally flowed out of our ceiling and into the next room which is the kitchen. During this time we were attempting to remove our belongings from the path of destruction with little avail. 12 ceiling tiles burst causing roughly 1/2 to 1" of water to well up in our bathroom, kitchen, and about 1/4 of our adjoining living room.

The neighbor directly above us ran down stairs saying that as his wife turned off the faucet in their bathroom sink the handle flew off, spraying her with hot water. As they reached below to turn off the pipe, it also burst thereby flooding our entire apartment below them.

The landlord never returned our call in spite of the emergency but we did track down the maintenance worker. He did little more than walking upstairs to our apartments, saying F*&k a lot, and reassured us that when we returned from our two day trip all would be fixed.

We arrived home on the 27th of May we found that our apartment had not been TOUCHED. For the three days we were gone water had set-in the apartment and no windows we opened. The stench was horrible and as soon as I walked in my fiancé got a migraine from the mold that had been flushed out from behind the walls.

We immediately went downstairs to confront the landlord and found that he had not even BEEN in the apartment for three days he just let it sit.

In his vain attempt to appease us he insisted that we would be reimbursed for our losses in front of several witnesses and also in a voicemail.

The insurance men came and told the landlord everything needed to be replaced. There is mold crawling throughout the walls and floors and water had set stagnant for days.

So…for one month my fiancé and I were without a bathroom sink, ceiling, and floor. The "floor" consisted of literally rotten black water logged wood. This scenario was the same in the kitchen and 1/4 of the living room.

We attempted to cook in the kitchen a few times during this month but each time anything moved or the people upstairs walked across their floor we would have flakes of drywall, mold, rotten insulation fall into our food and throughout our kitchen.

One month went by with NO work to our apartment, and then within a week they had hired a maintenance man to come in and "cover up" the problem. However we have had 3 separate leaks since then. But our landlord is trying to say that it is fixed??

At any rate after their shoddy work, lack of work, and the poor integrity of this building we have decided to move out, we gave the landlord notice of our July1 moving date 6 days ago.
Although our last lease was month to month, we haven’t signed one since April, and we haven’t paid rent for June the landlord is trying to say we owe for not giving notice (Although he agrees we shouldn’t pay for the time our apartment was not fixed(May24th-Jun19th)
How can we give notice to a problem that was beyond our control? And we are not on a lease, and even if we were there is clause in the lease which states that if the apartment is damaged or could cause harm to others the tenant has the right to end the lease and move.
How can he think he’s getting away with this? What can I do?

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I’m a teenager, and i honestly think i have OCD… i’ve self diagnosed myself a few times (i KNOW i shouldn’t do it, but i did…) and I constantly check to see if i have it, and i’ve done research on it, and i think its getting worse. But it could all be in my head, and i am freaking out over this; and it only seems to be getting worse.
My usual ‘quirks’ (symptoms?) are : i have to have my books/movies in a VERY specific order that i created when i was really young. its arranged (this sounds stupid) but by color/preference, type, and for books, size. I have to check to make sure the door is locked before i go to bed (even if i saw my parents check it). Also if i get hit on my left foot, i HAVE to hit the right one, until the pressure feels even. (some times i do it too hard, so i have to keep hitting each foot until i feel balanced) This goes on for everything. If my right cheek gets hit i HAVE to inflict some kind of pain to my left cheek just to make the pressure feel right. However that one only happens sometimes, but if i do it once, i am stuck like that for awhile. (If i think about it, i will be correcting myself for weeks). Oh and I am becoming (was?) a hoarder (for my whole life?) and i heard that is also part of OCD…
But my problems are getting worse.
Now, i’m having trouble touching door knobs, railings, and even being in the bathroom. Only certain doorknobs though. Any public one freaks me out (unless i keep myself SERIOUSLY distracted) but even then i hit it open. I feel like i can SEE the germs on these things, and as if i touch it im like dead. Sometimes i’ll look at my hands and i ’see’ germs or like spots on my hands so i have to wash them – so i try to cut it short and just do a basic wash, and not the super long one i want. Public railings disgust me. The bathroom is really weird. Its getting to the point where i don’t want to touch the faucet because it doesn’t get sanitized and i even asked if we could get a separate sink for brushing our teeth in so our teeth germs don’t mix with bathroom germs. Also if i learn about a new disorder, I automatically think i have it, and i start freaking out. And here’s where i freak myself out further.
I keep seeing my death, or my family’s death. I haven’t started any tapping yet, but I keep seeing it, and I’m really freaked out by it. For instance. Sometimes I walk on this bridge with my younger sister, and its really cramped, and there are cars speeding by us, and a highway below us with a low railing. And every time we’re on it, I keep seeing her falling over the railing and getting destroyed by a car, or whatever. I have to focus on the floor so I don’t have a panic attack. This all sounds really weird, but its true. If I’m worried I see those types of things, and I have to talk myself out of it.
Finally I guess there’s some sort of crazy that runs in my family (I don’t know the specifics) and I’m seriously afraid i’ll get it, or I have it. Or i’ll die alone, or blah-blah-blah. I also read that depression is part of it, or they go along together, or something. Maybe its just because I am an over stressed teenager (family and school problems) so I only think I’m depressed, but I seriously feel depressed at times.
I don’t know what to do, and my family is considering counseling for me, just in case, so I don’t get any worse. My dad thinks im faking it (but thats because he can handle seeing blood, and i get near passing out when i see it.). Is this just a stress over load, or something minor?
Should i be worried, and start working on this? Help me please, I feel like i am falling apart.

Ok… it has been a long day now, and I feel further away from getting to bed tonight than when i started.

I was TRYING to hook up our ice maker to the pipe under our bathroom sink – the one that goes from the cold-water up to the faucet handle.

Short version of the story is that now that pipe is no longer in service.. I went to Lowes and they gave me a "ferrule coupler" or something like that… Basically, it is two female nuts, a piece with two male ends, and two tiny metal tubes that go inside of the pipe.

From what I understand, I put the nuts on the pipe, put the little tube thingy inside the pipe, slide the nut down and connect it to the coupler… My problem is that I can’t seem to get things to stay.

I can tighten the bolts all the way to max on the coupler, but then the metal pipe pulls straight out, as though there was nothing there connecting it in the first place.

PLEASE – HELP.

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