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Our new bathroom floor is in!  But before I show you pictures of that, let me tell you about the drain on our clawfoot tub. We suspect the plumbing on it was original.  Whether it was or not, it was old enough to be nothing but a pain in the drain. [Read More]

Photographic evidence of the importance of having the drains under the house cleaned out at least once a year. Roots. Lots and lots of roots. And what looks like baby wipes. Not quite sure who flushed those. That's a no-no. (Hi Mom! Hope you [Read More]

Ok, the drains are finally finished! Woo Hoo!purejuice asked if I could explain what we actually did with the drains.First we have to remove the old cement drainage pipe that was horrible and blocked up. It looked like this:A then dug a trench of abo [Read More]

A. digging himself into an early graveSome days [Read More]

And just what is the position, you might ask? And what exactly does it entail? Why I can only be referring to the worship of the plumbing gods of course. In this case, we had the typical holiday time clogged drain. It is my belief that if a sink or [Read More]

I managed to flood the basement last night. Well, not flood it exactly, but I did cause the sink to overflow onto the floor (sort of? We know WHY it happened, just not why it happened the way it did.) Marc had to do some writing last night, so after [Read More]

We've encountered another "joy" of home ownership. A couple weeks ago, we discovered some standing water in our basement bathroom, and were unable to determine where it came from. Last night, Chris found a larger puddle of water, this time extending [Read More]

I am fed up with this rain. I went outside this morning and shook my fist at the sky. We have had so much rain, water is now coming up, out of the floor drains in the basement. Fortunetly, the sump pump was able to keep up with the incoming water, [Read More]

Today we're going to talk about sewage. So we'll skip the graphics. Our plumber, Ken, was called in to see what he could do about our water infux. He determined (and he was right) that our waste drains needed roto-rootering. Big, messy job [Read More]

We had a visit from Sewergal yesterday to snake our drain which had once again clogged with roots and caused a backup in our basement. The first time we met Sewergal was Christmas Eve, 2004, when our sewer backed up the first time, just two months a [Read More]