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"The Environmental Protection Agency finalized a rule Tuesday [October 8, 2024] requiring water utilities to replace all lead pipes within a decade, a move aimed at eliminating a toxic threat that continues to affect tens of thousands of American children each year.
The move, which also tightens the amount of lead allowed in the nationâs drinking water, comes nearly 40 years after Congress determined that lead pipes posed a serious risk to public health and banned them in new construction.
Research has shown that lead, a toxic contaminant that seeps from pipes into the drinking water supply, can cause irreversible developmental delays, difficulty learning and behavioral problems among children. In adults, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, lead exposure can cause increased blood pressure, heart disease, decreased kidney function and cancer.
But replacing the lead pipes that deliver water to millions of U.S. homes will cost tens of billions of dollars, and the push to eradicate them only gathered momentum after a water crisis in Flint, Mich., a decade ago exposed the extent to which children remain vulnerable to lead poisoning through tap water...
The groundbreaking regulation, called the Lead and Copper Rule Improvements, will establish a national inventory of lead service lines and require that utilities take more aggressive action to remove lead pipes on homeownersâ private property. It also lowers the level of lead contamination that will trigger government enforcement from 15 parts per billion (ppb) to 10 ppb.
The rule also establishes the first-ever national requirement to test for lead in schools that rely on water from public utilities. It mandates thatwater systems screen all elementary and child-care facilities, where those who are the most vulnerable to leadâs effects â young children â are enrolled, and that they offer testing to middle and high schools.
The White House estimates that more than 9 million homes across the country are still supplied by lead pipelines, which are the leading source of lead contamination through drinking water. The EPA has projected that replacing all of them could cost at least $45 billion.
Lead pipes were initially installed in cities decades ago because they were cheaper and more malleable, but the heavy metal can wear down and corrode over time. President Joe Biden has made replacing them one of his top environmental priorities, securing $15 billion to give states over five years through the bipartisan infrastructure law and vowing to rid the country of lead pipes by 2031. The administration has spent $9 billion so far â enough to replace up to 1.7 million lead pipes, the administration said.
On Tuesday, the administration said it was providing an additional $2.6 billion in funding for pipe replacement. Over 367,000 lead pipes have been replaced nationwide since Biden took office, according to White House officials, affecting nearly 1 million people...
Environmental advocates said that former president Donald Trump, who issued much more modest revisions to the lead and copper rule just days before Biden took office, would have a hard time reversing the new standards.
Erik Olson, the senior strategic director for health at the Natural Resources Defense Council, said that the Safe Drinking Water Act has provisions prohibiting weakening the health protections of existing standards...
Olson added that the rule ârepresents a major victory for public healthâ and will protect millions of people âwhose health is threatened every time they fill a glass from the kitchen sink contaminated by lead.â
âWhile the rule is imperfect and we still have more to do, this is by far the biggest step towards eliminating lead in tap water in over three decades,â he said."
-via The Washington Post, October 8, 2024
#lead#lead pipe#lead poisoning#united states#us politics#epa#clean water#drinking water#public health#environmental protection#child development#biden#biden administration#kamala harris#good news#hope#voting matters
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I made a pillow!
It took four months of non-stop cross-stitching, but I finally finished a pattern I bought from @8pxl a little bit ago, and tonight in a bizarre burst of productivity I finally sewed a back to it and stuffed it into a cute little pillow! It ended up being pretty much perfectly sized for a neck pillow, but I'm a bit worried about it getting dirty that way.
I highly recommend the patterns from 8xpl's shop, there are SO many gorgeous ones to choose from. I might end up getting another one soon o3o
#cross stitch#embroidery#fiber art#fiber crafts#cross stitching#xstitch#needlepoint#needlecraft#I went so long without drawing because I KNEW if I put this aside for anything I'd nver pick it up again#because that's how I usually am with cross stitch#but I finished it about a month ago and todday for some reason was just the day that I spontaneously finished the rest of thee project#I would have liked to do a nicer pillow#like with that piping kindd of stuff along the edge?#but if I actually waited to get some of that it'd never happen#so super basic straight lines around the edges flip insid out stuff an stitch down the opening#no zippeer#it will NOT be easy to clean so I need to be careful with it#but it is absolutely a perfect neck pillow on the back of my couch right now
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A chef!AU, maybe? In any case, a story in which Kara and Lena meet through one of them preparing/serving/etc food for the other and build their relationship based on that.
(also on ao3.)
âIâm telling you, Alex. Itâs her.â
At three pm on a Tuesday their restaurant is characteristically dead, save for the one lone customer Kara is spying on from behind the kitchen doors. The woman is perched, a little perilously, on a barstool at the counter. Itâs the one thatâs closest to their register, the one with the wobbly leg that Alex keeps telling Kara to fix. One of her red-soled heels is dangling from an impatiently bouncing left foot.
âThis is the fourth time this week sheâs come in here,â Kara says. âYou donât think thatâs just a little bit suspicious?â
Alex shrugs, fully committed to her task of mincing onions. âMaybe sheâs just a big fan of Italian food.â
âNo way,â Kara says. âNo woman who looks like that would put something in her mouth that wasnât clearly marked gluten-free and vegan. Give me your phone.â
Alex rolls her eyes dramatically as she elbows it over. âTell me again how youâre totally over Siobhan.â
âOral sex isnât a moral issue!â Kara takes a decisive breath while she unlocks her sisterâs phone with practiced ease. âWhatever. Water under the bridge.â
âUh-huh.â
âA love for pasta also doesn't explain why I heard this woman answer a call yesterday with a different name than the one thatâs on her credit card,â Kara points out, before snapping a quick picture through the porthole window.
âOkay, now youâre being creepy,â Alex says.
âShut up,â Kara tells her. âIâm texting Winn.â
Kara eyes the woman at the counter while she waits for his reply. The subject of her suspicionâLena, sheâd called herself on the phone;Â Tess Mercer, it had said on her mastercardâtwists a soft-looking lock of dark hair around her finger as she studies their menu. The way the sunlight sets it ablaze almost makes Kara take a second picture, purely for its artistic merit.
Alex dabs at her onion-induced tears with the cuff of her sleeve. âLet it go, Kara,â she sighs.
âLet it go? Let itââ Kara whirls back to face her, throwing her hands up in frustration. âDo you want The Tower to end up like Winn and Jamesâ steakhouse? Or are you fine with getting swindled by thisâthisâŠÂ villain?â
âOf course not.â Alex looks at her like sheâs stupid. âBut even if this woman is your so-called âfood influencerâ, what do you suggest we do about it? Itâs not as if we can bully her into giving us a fair review.â
Kara squares her jaw and sets her fists firmly on her hips. âNo,â she declares, her tone grim. âBut we can teach her a little about journalistic integrity.â She blows at a lock of hair thatâs fallen in her face. âAnd also, possibly, credit card fraud.â
Alex narrows her eyes at her. âKara,â she warns, putting down her knife. Her voice is low and cautious, as if sheâs talking to the rowdy raccoon that moved into their dumpster three weeks ago instead of to her baby sister. âLetâs just take a breath and think about this for a mââ
Kara is already gone, the doors to the kitchen swinging closed behind her. Sliding into the cluttered space behind the counter, she crosses her arms and then drops her elbows on the bar, leaning what she belatedly realizes is probably a little too close to her adversary. Sheâs close enough to make out the individual downy hairs on her chin and the lines in her painted lips, which are still pursed thoughtfully in what Kara is sure would look like an attractive pout to someone who didnât know any better.
But Kara knows so much better.
âLet me guess,â she remembers to get out, much less biting than originally intended. âToday youâll be having the fifth entrĂ©e down the list.â
As soon as their eyes meet over the miniscule amount of space left between them, Kara knows leaning in was a fatal mistake. Her nemesis blinks up at her with wide, startled eyes that remind Kara of the glass pebbles she finds on the beach on her morning walks, not-quite-blue and not-quite-green, and for a moment Karaâs brain sputters out as if someone abruptly turned off the flames that kept it cooking.
But the woman recovers fast, like the scheming scoundrel that she is. She guiltily shutters her eyes behind thick, charcoal lashes, and Karaâs temper revives at the observation that her enemy isnât as good of an actress as she thinks she is.
âIâve actually been thinking of breaking my own rule,â she says, with a smile that lands somewhere between self-deprecating and apologetic. âI may give in and order the same thing you served me yesterday.â Kara goes hot all over with righteous indignation at the rich timbre of the womanâs voice, the almost flirtatious lilt it takes on when she adds, âI havenât been able to stop dreaming about it.â
Kara pulls back a little in an effort to escape that curious gaze, the enticing scent of the womanâs perfume. Itâs sweet enough to drown out even Alexâs mountain of onions. âI know what youâre doing,â she blusters.
Theâfrankly unfairly beautifulâsoulless grifter stares at her, stricken. âIâmâIâm sorry?â
âYou should be,â Kara says. âI know who you are.â And then, as if sheâs putting down the last card in a game of Uno, âLena.â
The woman goes very still for a moment, and then the corners of her lips tug down in a bitter semblance of a smile. âI see,â she says. Sheâs rigid, regal; sheâs royalty perched on a wobbly wooden stool. âAnd am I to assume thatâs enough for you to turn down my patronage?â
Karaâs resolve wobbles, too. She hadnât expected her adversaryâLena, she now knowsâto roll over so easily. âWell, yeah, obviously,â she flusters, her energy suddenly too large and lumbering in the face of Lenaâs deference. âWinn and James are family.â
âFamily.â Thereâs a flicker of wistfulness in Lenaâs voice, before confusion colors her features. âSo the cold shoulder,â she says. âItâs personal?â
Kara scoffs. The fraudster doesnât even remember the names of her latest victims. Typical. âIt was their steakhouse that you razed to the ground last month,â Kara reminds her.
Lena blinks at her. âThe establishment just up the road?â She raises a critical eyebrow. âIâm pretty sure they set themselves up for failure when they decided to name their restaurant Misteak.â
Kara huffs. Her air quotes are appropriately vicious when she says, âThey were doing just fine before your slanderous âreviewâ went viral.â
Lena does a remarkably convincing impression of someone who is genuinely flabbergasted. âI donât even know what that means.â
âLiar.â
Lenaâs shocked laughter is bright but brief. Itâs the first time Kara has heard her laugh. Itâs maddeningly attractive and deeply annoying.
âOkay,â Lena says. She folds her arms in front of her chest and leans back a little in her seat, unaware of its delicate disposition. A smirk tugs at one corner of her mouth. âTell me,â she says, her eyes narrowing. âWho do you think I am, exactly?â
Kara leans in close again, refusing to allow Lena to get the upper hand. Sheâd like to wipe that smirk from Lenaâs faceâmanually, if need beâpreferably, even, if it means sheâd get to smudge that infuriatingly immaculate lipstick with her thumbâ
âYou,â Kara charges, in an effort to drown out that unhelpful thought, âare a fraud. You call yourself a âmystery food criticâ on TikTok, but really youâre blackmailing businesses into buying a favorable review.â
âHey, um.â Alex has followed her out of the kitchen, holding her phone. âSo. Winn texted back, and he saysââ
But Lena laughs again, her guarded posture melting down to unmistakable relief. âIâm so sorry,â she says, her voice a high warble. âThat sounds awful. And also extremely illegal. Have you reported this person to the authorities? I can get you in touch with an excellent lawyer, if youâd like.â
Kara doesnât know if she feels more outraged or confused.
âŠOr possibly some secret third thing.
âSo youâre telling meââ Kara barks out a disbelieving laugh. âYouâre saying youâre not her.â
âThis, ehmâ Tic Tac person?â When Lenaâs dark lashes flutter, something in Karaâs chest flutters too. âNo.â
Impossible. âThen why have you been in here every day this week?â Kara interrogates, the full force of evidence sheâs collected behind it. âWhen neither one of us has seen you here even once, since we opened?â
Alex rolls her eyes. âI told you I wasnât sure whether Iâd seen her here before,â she points out. âAlso, Winn saysââ
âOh please,â Kara scoffs, her eyes fixed on Lena, who has propped her elbows on the counter again, closer now than sheâd been the last time their eyes met. âAs if you could forget a woman as beautiful asââ Karaâs gaze drops to Lenaâs mouth, unbidden, when Lena parts those rude, ruby lips. â...You.â
Alex stares.
Kara swallows.
Lena blinks; two times fast, and then again, after a beat, slow and sticky, her eyes darkening.
âSo you may as well come out with it,â Kara croaks out what little remains of her anger. âThereâs something you want more than our fettuccine.â
Lenaâs cheeks have turned a treacherously charming shade of pink. âI suppose youâre right about that one, at least,â she admits after a beat.
In Karaâs peripheral vision, Alex frantically slides her hand across her throat. Kara frowns at her, telegraphing a wordless what is your problem but finding no satisfactory answer in the crimson shade her sisterâs face has taken on.
âYeah, well,â she says, almost disappointed, fumbling to fill the space left by Lenaâs confession. âIâm telling you right now that itâs never going to happen.â
Alex clears her throat with startling force. âWinn wants to know,â she says, reading from her phone, âWhoâs the hot chick?â
When Kara returns her gaze to the woman on the other side of the counter, she gulps. Lena is somehow even closer than she was before. Sheâs also fully propping herself up now on the laminate surface between them, granting Kara a glimpse of freckled cleavage that in no possible universe could be interpreted as unintentional.
âSo,â Lena drawls. âWhat youâre saying is youâre not going to give me your number?â
Karaâs throat is suddenly very dry.
âHuh?â she manages, but only just barely.
âI was hoping,â Lena says slowly, that maddening smirk once again tugging up the corner of her mouth, âthat youâd maybe like toââ
Lena shifts in her seat, crossing her legs in what is bound to become a devastatingly seductive pose, but the barstool decides in exactly that moment that's itâs finally had enough. Lena yelps as it gives out beneath her with a dramatic snap, one of its rickety limps flying across the floor as if celebrating its first taste of freedom, and Karaâs never considered herself to be very quick, but here she is anyway, on the other side of the counter in what feels like less than a second, one hand gripping Lenaâs forearm, the other slipping smoothly around her waist.
ââfuck,â Lena gasps up at her. She feels good, in Karaâs hands, slight but pleasantly heavy, like the santoku knife Alex has forbidden Kara from touching ever again. âWell,â Lena says. âThatâs. Perhaps not the way I would have phrased it, especially in front of your friendââ
They both glance over at Alex, but sheâs disappeared, the swaying of the kitchen doors the only indication she was ever there.
âO-kay,â Kara says.
Lena grins. âOkay?â
Kara mentally rewinds the conversation and feels her ears burn at the realization of what she just agreed to. âI mean,â she amends. âWe could, maybe, grab something to eat first?â
Something devious sparks in Lenaâs terrifyingly gorgeous face. She glances down at Karaâs arms before blinking back up at her again and smirking. âI thought you already had.â
And, goodness gracious.
Kara is about to be in so much trouble.
#this prompt is exactly one hundred years old today but HEY LOOK a CLEAN 2000 WORDS#just. clearing the pipes#or whatever it is they say#supercorp fan fiction#supergirl fan fiction#ask meme#thanks for the prompt wilfriede!#i hope it's close enough!#lena luthor#kara danvers#fic by ekingston
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B&M Septic | Give Mr. Pipe a call for all your needs!
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Wife thinks you look a little dirty.
Cheeks provided by my friend Reijen, their twitter is below! They're an amazing artist please give them a follow <3
#he can clean my pipes all he wants#astarion in femme clothing is my kink#send help#astarion#baldurs gate fanart#bg3#vampire spawn#bg3 tav#vampire#baldurs gate astarion#art#maid astarion#gyatttt
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Birthday scribbling
#featuring the chibi style I am trying out#but itâs not cleaned up. obviously#I kinda like what I had going on when I was first doing whiteboard scribbles#so replicating that#but with my Fancy Procreate Brushes#that I havenât used in I kid you not 2 years#im getting old#anyways Siffrin birthday yay yay yippee Iâm going back to hitting him with a metal pipe tomorrow#in stars and time#isat#isat siffrin#isat loop#isat mirabelle#isat bonnie#isat isabeau#fawntonguesart
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i think this one might have been funnier in my head
also:
HAHSGSH THANKS!!
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#does checking the pipes make sense?#no clue#i think ill make my asks look more or less like this now#by that i mean less clean lineart#cause what i was doing up to this point was really monotone and boring#also!!#ty for the funny number of followers!!!#misconduct sans#ask misconduct#utmv#ut au#sans au#sans#sans oc#sci sans#undertale au#undertale multiverse#answered asks#my art#undertale
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everyone says oh if you feel terrible make sure you eat something to see if you can stabilize your mood and thats true but what we really need to emphasize is. if you want to kill yourself: make sure youve jerked that thang asunder before you make any choices on the matter
#andif the first time doesnt take. well. to shreds i say.#do NOT kill yourself if you havent cleaned the pipes recently. thats my offering of knowledge for you all.#kora.txt
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being from a family of athletes is to never know peace because how has my brother just accidentally torn the door off of our fridge trying to get a glass of apple juice. itâs a monday
#i love these children i essentially co-reared them from birth#but in the last few months weâve had this and my brother cleaning the bathroom and accidentally dislodging a whole pipe resulting in water#coming through the ceiling including the electrical sockets#and âmy cousin bouncing my sister off of her bed so hard she flew through the air broke her arm and missed an international tournament#and then my sister smashed a lightbulb doing a cartwheel in the living room#and then my other brother broke our trampoline#and then
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each time sauna Eren comes on my screen so do I
#yeah thatâs what i thought shakespear#pipe it down#we got real poetry over here#the way itâs canon in his interview that he enjoys saunas and being clean lmao (itâs in my pinned)#Eren officials#attack on titan#eren jaeger#Eren illustration
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Just a 40 year old ex yakuza boss sitting on the toilet reading his daily newspaper. Nothing to see hereâŠ
#the way his pants are all the way down to his ankles is sending me#How long does it take you to use the bathroom to the point you need to light a cigarette#twittering birds never fly#saezuru tori wa habatakanai#saezuru#yashiro#bl manga#casually in the middle of his daily pipe cleaning#yoneda kou
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#blossom#powerpuff girls#the powerpuff girls#she is cosplaying mojo in his natural habitat#which is under the sink in the dark with damp pipes and a sponge and toilet brush đ#.....where do they keep any of their other cleaning supplies.......#also you don't know it but this is a special post! for reasons! i might post about later!
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Working on my trolls style ft. my oc, KĆ«kala
#saph doodles#kĆ«kala#trolls oc#dreamworks trolls#trolls#trolls au#I really like how my sketches look with this brush#not cleaned up but they look really nice still#!!!#btw her sandals are made of corkboard and tied with pipe cleaners#the wraps around her legs idrk but I was thinking maybe washi tape?#but thatâs not really fabric or like a wrapping material#idk
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hey uh
I heard an explosion?????
or at least a loud bang
it came from Poseidon's Cabin so I think Percy did it...again
seriously he causes so many explosions, it's tiring
ârandom cabin seven kid
IT WASNT ME WHY DOES EVEYRONE ASUME EVERY LOUD NOISE WAS ME. THE HEPAHSTUS CABIN IS ***RIGHT*** THERE.
it was totally me. sorry.
- Percy Jackson, Head Counselor of the Poseidon Cabin đ
#im cleaning up rn...#i accidentally burst a pipe when i lost uno. oops.#percy jackon and the olympians#percy jackson#pjo#pjo fandom#pjo hoo toa#pjo ask blog#ask blog#roleplay blog#pjo roleplay#â organization tags ËïœĄâ#đ : percy jackson ËïœĄâ#đ : cabin 3 | poseidon ËïœĄâ#đŁ : in character ËïœĄâ#đ€ : canon characters ËïœĄâ
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Quaxly stimboard!
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#quaxly#stimboard#white stim#duck stim#frosting stim#piping stim#cupcake stim#blue stim#soap stim#bath bomb stim#clean stim#Pokémon
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