Not a personal story for me, but funny, none the less.
A lady in Texas called her electrician, telling him that everytime the toilet flushed, the doorbell rang. The electrician thought, Yeah, sure, but was interested in just what was happening.
After he arrived, he had the lady flush the toilet, and sure enough, the doorbell chime sounded.
Perplexed, he opened up the attic access, where he knew the low-voltage wiring would be, from front door to chime.
He followed the wiring all along the attic floor, and soon found the problem.
Seems in this house, the plumber had run all the copper waterlines in the attic, since it would never get cold enough to freeze, and because the house sat on a slab.
One of the cold water lines ran directly over one of the low-voltage wires feeding the doorbell pushbutton. Whenever the toilet flushed, the waterline actually moved alittle bit, enought to finally rub the insulation off of the wires. Now, whenever the pipes moved, it acted just like the pushbutton, completing the circuit, and causing the chime to ring.
One for the books.
Rick Miell
