Tyler and Tamara's House: Pumbling?

So I successfully pulled out the stupid busted bib, got the whole kit up and running (so I thought) Hoses connected, drainage engaged, plugs plugged, the whole 9. What do I find when I go to turn on the water? The past owner, instead of just taking the 10 minutes and $20 to fix the busted bib, went and hired a plumber to cut off the plumbing to the washer under the cabinets. For the love of gods! 4" of pipe missing on each pipe - all neatly capped with copper fittings! Holy crap, what a bummer. Because of the location (in the kitchen cabinets) soldering was a problem. I went out and bought a fire extinguisher because I knew Tamara's fire fighting brother Jeff would applaud this decision. I borrowed Greg's torch, bought a foot of copper pipe and four couplings, some solder and some flux. It's a good thing there's a hardware store two blocks away. Cutting the pipe was a giant pain in the arse. It was too tight to use a pipe cutter and a hack saw was taking forever. The solution was - use the light-saber. Nothing beats a good recip saw, seriousely if you don't have one go out and buy one- right now. Don't get a cordless one, get one that uses a good old fashioned "plug." It'll get used more than you think. Great for tight spaces that a jig saw can't reach and powerfull enough to cut through a HAUNCH of Alberta beef. After everything was cut to size, trimmed and sanded, I grabbed a sample tile for the kitchen floors and used it as fireproofing in the cupboards. All in All, the tight space was a pain in the butt and made getting the backside (ha!) of the pipes difficult. Having the fire extinguiser handy made the job way less stressfull. I did laundry last night.