{"id":12,"date":"2018-01-20T16:20:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T16:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atlanta247.com\/blog\/?p=12"},"modified":"2018-01-20T16:20:19","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T16:20:19","slug":"stop-and-do-it-right-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atlanta247.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/20\/stop-and-do-it-right-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"“Stop and do it right the first time”"},"content":{"rendered":"

… so like any homeowner I’ve had to fix a toilet or two in my time.\u00a0 When a task comes up at work – I am the guy who is always saying “stop and do it right the first time”… so of course I am also the guy who doesn’t take his own advice on household chores.<\/p>\n

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So back to my toilet.\u00a0 \u00a0The tank was constantly running.\u00a0 It’s a 15 year old toilet so I knew right away that the parts in the tank with the “5 year warranty” probably needed replacing…\u00a0 \u00a0Call me “Powers of Deduction Man!” – my superpower is knowing the obvious.<\/p>\n

So I run off to my local Home Depot and get a kit… do i get\u00a0 complete kit? nah. I grab the kit with just the most common pieces.<\/p>\n

An hour later i’ve replaced the parts, and while things are better – I have a slow leak from the top tank into the bowl (not the floor thankfully).\u00a0 Which I attempt to patch.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Six months later… my leak is back.\u00a0 And it quickly gets … worse.<\/p>\n

So back to Home depot for the … other half of the kit.\u00a0 \u00a0 So kids – the lesson here..<\/p>\n

“Stop and do it right the first time”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… so like any homeowner I’ve had to fix a toilet or two in my time.\u00a0 When a task comes up at work – I am the guy who is always saying “stop and do it right the first time”… so of course I am also the guy who doesn’t take his own advice on … Continue reading “Stop and do it right the first time”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[10,3],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homeownership","category-me","tag-lesson","tag-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanta247.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanta247.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanta247.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanta247.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanta247.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanta247.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanta247.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanta247.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanta247.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanta247.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}