Hell, Plumbing Division

[kaffy_r]

Down With the Back Up

Do not — do not —  speak to me of plumbing.

• My home smells like a septic tank.
• The "waste water" was oh, so much more.
• To get to an access point, they had to tear up the floor, because the previous plumbers cemented over the pipe they'd put in. For, you know, access.
• The carpet is cut up, wet, and peeled back in the hall.
• The cats are traumatized.
• As they searched for possible starting points for our problems, the new professional plumbers found out that one of the building's water heaters is leaking.
• And did I mention that my house smells like a dead civet in a drainpipe?

Comments

[lydy.livejournal.com]

Oh, my dear me. Sewage backup is the worst. I hope that the baking soda works -- sounds like you have enough of it. Hopefully they'll have fixed the problem this time.

[kaffy_r]

Things are on the downhill side of beginning to be commencing to be close to being fixed at this point. And they've revised their comment re sewage, following more checks. It's apparently still safely "waste water" and not classic sewage. However, the non-crap crap that's been in the the pipes and catch basin has been there long enough to do in the pipes what food, etc. does in our lower GI tract. So it smells like crap.

TMI, I know.