OH the Joy of Plumbing

Doesn't everyone just have those days that seem like trouble is at every turn? And all you want is just a little peace in life or to lazily sleep in on a weekend? *Sigh* Oh well. Things could be worse. The other day, the Hubs informed me that the toilet overflowed in the upstairs bathroom. When I got home from work, the dehumidifier was on. The floor (and carpeting) was still soaked. I went and got the carpet cleaner and sucked up all the water I possibly could. Then I turned up the carpet to dry the floor underneath. Hubs noticed in the basement (right below the upstairs bath) there was some water that leaked through the floor. Not good!

Then yesterday, I went to the basement laundry room and there was water around the washing machine. Hmmmmm-not again. Hubs said he washed an oversized load recently--but still I had my suspicions. Then last night, Hubs took a shower in the basement bathroom and the water would not go down. He was not happy.

This morning, he called Roto Rooter and they came out around 8 AM. After having some trouble with the cable getting stuck in our stack pipe, the tech was able to clear out some roots. He said there was a rough area about 3 feet down from our basement floor. Could he have another tech bring a camera (for extra $$$) to see what the trouble is? He said that it would be better-and cheaper-to do it now and if there is a problem, we could prepare for it.

Two more techs showed up and they put a camera down. I was envisioning that we would have to replace the line all the way out to the street. Nope-but the line going toward the bathroom is broken--so we can fix it now before the problem gets any worse and costs us even more $$$. They are going to have to dig up about a square yard of concrete right by our stack---but that is much better than digging up our entire basement (like a friend of ours has to do) or dig up our driveway like our neighbors were told they needed to do. *Sigh* They will be back on Tuesday at 8 to start digging. So much for a quiet veteran's day.

On a lighter note, the grungy hideous stack pipe of ours (which to me looks as if it is rotton to the core) only looks bad because of the exterior paint corroding. The pipe is still in good shape. We had a fun talk with the 3 Roto Rooter techs talking about the show Ghost Hunters (the stars Jason and Grant work for Roto Rooter too). Turns out 2 of the guys were also fans of the show. Hopefully we will get this fixed and our plumbing troubles will cease. Oh-and I am gonna have them give me an estimate on replacing the plumbing in the upstairs bathroom. I really want to remodel it. :) Like the rest of my old house, it has seen better days.