Ugh, I'm very sorry to hear this happened, but happy to hear it is (almost?) better. I can sympathise as pretty much everything in my house is about water. From leaking toilets (the 3.5 gal type that you cannot buy anymore except from a vast underground network of people who bought and stored them, unopened, right before they were discontinued) to basement floods to cracks in showers to frozen pipes to bad well pumps to water filters. Fortunately, no shit geyzers though!
As a homeowner of only three years whose sewer line appears to be buried beneath the concrete floor of my basement/garage ... in a 92-year-old house ... in a neighborhood where the sewer mains are almost as old as the house ... two blocks outside the boundaries of the 100-year flood plain ... in a region where it rains all winter long ... this reads like my worst nightmare.
You have my deepest condolences. And if I were you, I'd stay on the good side of those guys from American Eagle.
Old houses are wonderful. Except when they aren't.
I'm lucky that most of the major renovations and upgrades were done to my place before I bought it. It has modern wiring, modern heating (and cooling!), etc. But the plumbing, while fully functional so far (knock wood) ... scares me.
i've been told (and seen it to be true in most cases) that every house has its problem element. The last house i lived in (the one on Church) had Water as its problem. Water coming up from the ground when it rained, water leaking through the walls when people showered, the uppermost toilet exploding and water raining down from above, water flooding the basement when people did laundry....i could go on. (And i was only there for two years.)
The house before that, the one on White, had Air. No matter how much of that plastic stuff we used or how many towels we shoved under doors, we could never stop every draft in the winter. And it was pert near impossible to get a breeze going in the summer.
Water sucks as an element choice for houses. But it's far more adventurous than Air.
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Anyway, best of luck to ya!
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As a homeowner of only three years whose sewer line appears to be buried beneath the concrete floor of my basement/garage ... in a 92-year-old house ... in a neighborhood where the sewer mains are almost as old as the house ... two blocks outside the boundaries of the 100-year flood plain ... in a region where it rains all winter long ... this reads like my worst nightmare.
You have my deepest condolences. And if I were you, I'd stay on the good side of those guys from American Eagle.
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I'm lucky that most of the major renovations and upgrades were done to my place before I bought it. It has modern wiring, modern heating (and cooling!), etc. But the plumbing, while fully functional so far (knock wood) ... scares me.
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The house before that, the one on White, had Air. No matter how much of that plastic stuff we used or how many towels we shoved under doors, we could never stop every draft in the winter. And it was pert near impossible to get a breeze going in the summer.
Water sucks as an element choice for houses. But it's far more adventurous than Air.
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Fire would suck.
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