A Literally Shit Day

[vixalicious]

Ok, so as I'm nearing the end of a 12 hour day in which we accomplished a solid hour, hour and a half of work, I look down into my lower level and what do I see?

Water. All over the floor.

*sigh*

Now there are those who will say I should have seen this coming (chiefly me, and probably my mother when I tell her)... the same thing happened last Thankgiving. There are roots growing into my pipes, and I had to have them roto-rooted out, as some of you may recall. I had noticed a little backup this weekend, and figured it was due to having guests last weekend and needing to have the roots re-done so I'd put it on my to - do list ( and marny_h96, zillah975, if this happened while y'all were here and you just didn't want to say, I am so, so sorry). We had a thunderstorm today, and got a lot of rain in a short amount of time, and then I did one last load of laundry to wash my red towels, which, if one is to judge by the red-tinted mess I just mopped up, was the straw that broke the camel's back.

Ugh. So now my downstairs bath smells vaguely of sewage, and I have to call both a roto-rooter service and my handy man service tomorrow. I think I should just go ahead and get the pipes fixed, as long as it's under $1000. Plus I might as well have them tear up the yard before I start working on it this fall.

I just didn't need this this week, is all. The allergy problems and the work issues were really enough, thanks.

Comments

[zillah975]

Awww, no! *hugs you madly* And no, it definitely did NOT happen while we were there. We definitely would have said something. My basement flooded twice at the condo - once from a broken water heater and once from a leaky AC unit - and it's definitely not something I would keep secret.

I'm so sorry you're having to deal with this. :( *hugs you more*

[vixalicious]

Whew, I'm glad! It's really gross, it backs up into the shower first, then when that can't hold any more, it backs up the toilet and floods. My house smells icky right now.

But the plumber is on his way, and they do free estimates!

[the-grapevine.livejournal.com]

Bad days just suck all the way around. For your sake I hope the roots are easy to get rid of. I like your idea of getting them taken care of before you do your back breaking yard work.

Love ya, mean it!

[vixalicious]

Yeah, there's no point in killing weeds and reseeding just to have them dig it all up. I'm hoping I can get it taken care of for under a grand, but that may be wishful thinking.

:D <3