Ah, the joys of home ownership...

The past few days, we've started having the first of the winter rains. We also had our first house guest from Florida come in the same day the rains started. That was the day we started to notice issues with the plumbing specifically the sewer drains in the washing machine. I figured that the outlet for the rinse just got too sudsy and spilled out onto the floor like it had done in the past. Oh ho! not this time! This time, it decided to come out the drain on the floor under the bathroom sink! Ok, I figured, this I can deal with, less soap or something. That's apparently not what the house had planned for us. Over the next day or so, everytime we flushed or ran the sink the whole downstairs would start a bubbly sounding sonata. Today it culminated in our guest taking a shower upstairs (that drained fine) and me running upstairs screaming for him to hurry and get out because poo water was coming up to the rim in the toilet, up through the tub and up through the drain under the sink! BLECH!!!!

So, we called the city who came out and took a look at the sewer lines out in the street and they were running better than fantastic. Great. So, a bunch of bugging neighbors and phone calls later, we've got a plumber out here right now trying to snake the line and see if they can clear the blockage. Only good thing about all this is that, they send us a bill?!?! You don't pay when they show up or when their done, but when you get the bill! How cool is that? That would never in a million years happen in Florida. It would be payment up front or no work.

Here's hoping it's a blocked pipe, not a broken one!

posted by Unknown @ Tuesday, November 07, 2006