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Retired, housewife, mother of three. Picking up the pieces after God decided the 145 year old farmhouse was no longer the house for us. Praise God for His mercy and love!

Monday, May 13, 2013

I knew we'd be doing a lot of work,

but we found out today it will be a lot more.

We thought we had a plugged sewer line.
Rented a snake and put it through two different... clean out points.
One run came back completely dry. It didn't get to the septic tank, which it should have done easily.
For the second run - where hubby has to get under the house (he can get on his hands and knees once he is completely under it); he hit a block he couldn't get the snake past. (He also tried some sort of rubber thing which expands to the size of the pipe and shoots pressurized water at the blockage.)
And while he was there, and having me run some clean water through the lines, discovered that there are three different leaks, in addition to the blockage.

And because this house is 100 years old, it not only has PVC pipe from when hubby fixed the washer drain line and the main bathroom lines; it also has cast iron pipe and old ceramic pipe for the plumbing.

We decided we had to call a plumber.

And we're back living in the trailer because only the washer and the kitchen lines are uncompromised.

We figure any plumber that comes out probably won't touch it, really. It's not going to be an easy job.
We're expecting easily a thousand dollars or more for an estimate.
*sigh*

Oh well.

Hope you all have a blessed week! ♥

5 comments:

  1. Did you try pouring copper sulphate crystals down the toilet? We treat our old lines with that annually to kill off roots that infiltrate. It's under $10 at our local Ace (about the only place that carries it anymore) and seems to do the trick. Probably won't be fast given the large blockage, but it won't cost thousands!

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  2. Oh my. That hurts. Thank goodness you still have the trailer for back up. It's always good to have back up. Hope you have a good day. How did the fishing go; or not?

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    1. We ended up not going. Did stuff around the house and then had crawfish for dinner. :-)

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  3. 2 steps forward & .... Ouch.

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