- Nov 28, 2001
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No cliffs don't read if you don't want to. It's just a story about some plumbing nightmares. No pics, No naked chicks, No drunkenness, No p0wning or getting p0wned unless you count getting p0wned by sewage, No scams, No hot deals, No spiders....
Learned shortly after moving in that several years before they had to break the concrete under the drive way and dig down to a major pipe burst. The water was aparently gushing up frum under the driveway.
Then about 3-4 years ago we were minding our own business one sunny day when I hear this huge rushing sound. I walk outside and water is cascading down over a concrete wall and filling our sunk in parking lots. We quickly get the water shut off but not until it looks like a swimming pool down there. So we spend several days digging down to the break and what do we find? Previous workers had simply placed a massive bolder on top of 2 pipes to keep them connected together. So we have that fixed and fill it back in.
Ever since then we have had horrible water pressure problems. We lived with it for years until this past winter when we had another disaster and decided to use that disaster as an excuse to fix this one. So they dig another large hole in the driveway down to the T pipe connecting our complex with the other units, there is a rock stuck right at the T junction from the previous time the line had broken.
One day last summer I was getting reddy to go to work and all of a sudden water starts gushing out from under our basement toilet. No time to fix it so I wake my father up and he has to do moping duty till I get back. Well I get back that night and the entire basement is a write-off. It's sewage that has backed up and flooded 4/5 of our basement and 1/2 the next units. They get roto rooter in and they send a camera down the line and find that where the main sewage pipe for our units meets the city sewage there is a sag in the line from the last time they did maintenance on it. It's the cities fault. YEAH!!! So our insurance will pay for it. Thank god considering the damage and lost property it's in the $10,000++ range. Well it took a good 5-6 MONTHS to get our basement back into working order. Most of that time was waiting for the paperwork to clear so we could get the money.
Last night the kitchen sink started backing up. I thought it was the garbage disposal clogged so I spend 2 hours cleaning it out, there was a problem with it all right but that's not what caused the water to back up! It's a more major clog somewhere else in the line! I hope this one is just minor! Poured an entire bottle of Draino down there and will let it sit over night. Call the plumbers later if need to.
FFFFFffffuuuu...!!!.....
Learned shortly after moving in that several years before they had to break the concrete under the drive way and dig down to a major pipe burst. The water was aparently gushing up frum under the driveway.
Then about 3-4 years ago we were minding our own business one sunny day when I hear this huge rushing sound. I walk outside and water is cascading down over a concrete wall and filling our sunk in parking lots. We quickly get the water shut off but not until it looks like a swimming pool down there. So we spend several days digging down to the break and what do we find? Previous workers had simply placed a massive bolder on top of 2 pipes to keep them connected together. So we have that fixed and fill it back in.
Ever since then we have had horrible water pressure problems. We lived with it for years until this past winter when we had another disaster and decided to use that disaster as an excuse to fix this one. So they dig another large hole in the driveway down to the T pipe connecting our complex with the other units, there is a rock stuck right at the T junction from the previous time the line had broken.
One day last summer I was getting reddy to go to work and all of a sudden water starts gushing out from under our basement toilet. No time to fix it so I wake my father up and he has to do moping duty till I get back. Well I get back that night and the entire basement is a write-off. It's sewage that has backed up and flooded 4/5 of our basement and 1/2 the next units. They get roto rooter in and they send a camera down the line and find that where the main sewage pipe for our units meets the city sewage there is a sag in the line from the last time they did maintenance on it. It's the cities fault. YEAH!!! So our insurance will pay for it. Thank god considering the damage and lost property it's in the $10,000++ range. Well it took a good 5-6 MONTHS to get our basement back into working order. Most of that time was waiting for the paperwork to clear so we could get the money.
Last night the kitchen sink started backing up. I thought it was the garbage disposal clogged so I spend 2 hours cleaning it out, there was a problem with it all right but that's not what caused the water to back up! It's a more major clog somewhere else in the line! I hope this one is just minor! Poured an entire bottle of Draino down there and will let it sit over night. Call the plumbers later if need to.
FFFFFffffuuuu...!!!.....
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