Homeownership woes

[beowabbit]

Had an adventure on Saturday, but $500.00 and five hours later I had working plumbing again. (Bad clog + vigorous plunging = busted seals. Oops!) I haven’t yet thrown out all the stuff in the basement that got destroyed. The plumbers were very efficient.

Other than that, though, it was a lovely weekend! Got to spend lots of time with darling plumtreeblossom

Comments

[plumtreeblossom]

I'm so glad it turned out to be a fairly easy fix, my love! *kiss*

[addiejd]

Might I suggest you invest in a snake for those hard to get clogs?

[beowabbit]

Thanks! I actually have a snake (whether I could have found it was another question), but given where this clog was and the size of the pipe, I don’t think the snake would have reached it, or been able to break through rather than just curling up inside the pipe if it had. And when I discovered the rain in the basement, of course, I needed to call plumbers anyway.

[anonymous]

Second the snake idea.
Didn't know old seals would
give way that quickly.
Sorry to hear about another
installment in the joys of
home ownership.
Don

[beowabbit]

Thanks! I don’t know about “that quickly”, it had been a little prone to minor leakage since I bought the house, and I have no idea how old the wax ring was. (The sewer pipe itself is old enough that the joints are sealed with rope soaked in tar.)

[anonymous]

Shoooot! And with so many nice ways one might spend a week-end.

[silverlibre]

Shoooot! . . .

That was me. It wasn't supposed to be anonymous. LJ just signs me out from time to time.