Will it ever end?
My basement is flooded. It is flooded with filth. The filth is not coming from the toilet as it was before but out of the main drain in the basement. I was going to take a picture to post but thought better of it. I won’t even describe it but suffice to say that I am throwing away the shoes I wore while I tried miserably to plunge the drain.
It didn’t work.
I have called a plumber which means my son’s dream of going to MIT is shot. He will have to go to a state college or possibly …. community college. I shudder to think about the cost of this mess.
I can not use any water until the plumber god comes. I don’t know when the plumber god is coming, hopefully today, but one never knows do they?
OH NO! I’m soooo sorry! I hope you can get this fixed without having to resort to selling a limb or something. Damn houses. These are the time when I think the homeless have got it down–a cardboard box is the way to go. When it starts to leak, get a new one! Okay, so the rest of it would suck, but that’s one bright side.
I’m thinking of you and sending good plumbing vibes your way……..
Thanks, Lin, I need all the good plumbing vibes I can get.
I know this is supposed to be a humor blog, but this ain’t funny.
We have a small drain in our laundry room, and lately we’ve been finding a lot of water on the floor. We tried several things, to no avaail, and then reluctantly called the plumber.
He showed up, ran a motorized snake from the top of the house, and 45 minutes and $150 later, he was gone.
Lawyers and doctors don’t have it this good.
Purple green pop, C’mon, it’s a little funny?
Hi I think you could get hold of one of those gadgets yourself.get one of the kid’s to be a plumber,sounds a good job.
Oh wow– That is beyond the ordinary Case of the Mondays… I will not gripe about having to, y’know, wake up and go to work this morning. I am at least not flooded with liquids of the questionable variety.
Here’s hoping they can fix this up for you at less of a cost than you’d anticipated.
Thank heaven I have avoided plumbing accidents during the recent UK freeze. My friend Sib, thought he was facing disaster but it turned out just to be a heating pipe with a little dribbly leak and his house insurance has paid up for the damaged carpets.
Poor you Jen, worse still having to pay out – isn’t it covered on your home insurance? Perhaps your son would be better off training as a plumber rather than something academic. He’s never going to be out of a job….
Been there this past spring when the whole town flooded, lost a lot of stuff. Hope you are able to get everything repaired without breaking the college fund completely.
What a pisser.
OMG – good luck with the plumber!! The troubles you have been having lately with your house are insane!
OH NO! And I thought *I* was having a bad Monday! And your shoes ruined too! I am SO sorry! I hope the “plumbing gods” decide to be benevolent to you!!
Janice, do you mean the snake? Wouldn’t that be a cool tool to have?
Jenn, getting up and going to work sucks too. At least I was home when this happened and not somewhere else.
Jenny, I never thought to see if the insurance would cover it but I’m pretty sure they don’t here. They rarely actually cover anything and if they do the deductible is way too high. My son is so not mechanically inclined. I’ve tried to teach him but it just is foreign to him. He doesn’t know directions, N,W,S,E, either. Gets lost all the time. I’m scared next month when he gets his driver’s license.
Sassy, I’m so sorry you had to deal with a flood and losing your stuff. My little flood is an inconvenience not a disaster. Thanks for your kind words.
Muskrat, you said it. Maybe if I had worn a helmet… Maybe its payback for the baseball game?
Steph, Yes…insane I am.
Carole, my shoes were getting past the point anyway. I thought about wearing a nice patent pump to plunge everything out but they didn’t match the color of the “water” so I wore my tennies.
I’m sorry – that totally sucks. The only good thing I have to say is: I LOVE the labels for this post!
Thanks Nanny!