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  • Fishpo31Fishpo31 Member Posts: 2,541

    Sewer scope/ line repair is a big one in Seattle now eh @pawz ?
    When we decided we had to sell our newly-remodeled, gentrified house (1923) in the midst of the 08 bubble burst, the tipping point was the sewer line was failing...
  • creepycougcreepycoug Member Posts: 23,807

    I hated our street in Seattle and yearned for the @GrundleStiltzkin 15 acres in Index lifestyle.

    Now I love all my neighbors and we have potlucks and block parties with regularity. But I live in a very unique area where the hood self selects for members of the same tribe who have very similar interests.

    I went from fat, cosplay shit bags who will never reproduce to hot milfs with kids the same age as us.

    Just be careful about the key parties. They sound fun, but I'm hearing they're a bad idea.
  • creepycougcreepycoug Member Posts: 23,807
    Fishpo31 said:

    When we decided we had to sell our newly-remodeled, gentrified house (1923) in the midst of the 08 bubble burst, the tipping point was the sewer line was failing...
    Sounds shitty.

    #SWIDT?
  • 1to392831weretaken1to392831weretaken Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 7,683 Swaye's Wigwam
    Fishpo31 said:

    It was, especially in the basement...

    EDIT: I've done a lot of tough jobs in my life, and have prided myself on grinding through to get the job completed, but cleaning that basement took super-human levels of intestinal fortitude (pun definitely intended)...
    About two years ago, my wife tells me that our kitchen sink won't drain. I do the drain cleaner thing first. When that doesn't work, I take the P-trap apart. Still nope.

    Off to the hardware store for a snake. I got the kind you can hook up to a drill and made sure it had a decent diameter line. P-trap dumps into a vertical that goes through the floor into the basement and a cleanout-wye that I opened up, funneled to a now wonderful smelling bucket (gag reflex), and inserted the snake. From there, a 15' run with a slight drop (too slight, but construction-limited) over the hallway and into the utility room, ninety, a last 10' run against the wall to the waste stack.

    Drill, drill, drill, drill, sound and resistance change, pull it out, cap everything up, test at the sink... No drain. This little dance repeats another time or two before I ask my beard to go stand by the waste stack and listen for the snake hitting it so I know for sure I'm through. She eventually tells me I'm there, I go listen to verify, then, satisfied, I retract the snake, throw it away because of how disgusting it was at that point, and button everything up.

    Aaaaaaaand the sink doesn't drain.

    Back to the hardware store, three sticks of ABS, a sweep el, a coupling, and some solvent. Out comes the sawzall. Piece by piece, that sink drain line went out the window into the yard. I don't get queasy easily, but I fought the urge to paint the walls the whole time. When I say I'd rather the pipes have been full of shit, I'm not exaggerating. Turns out the snake was never going to work. What the pipe was full of was some kind of self-healing fatty blob that smelled like the worst thing I've ever smelled. About 20' of it. The snake would chew through it, I'd retract the snake, the blob would just heal itself like a goopey sphincter closing up every time.

    I've done some absolute shit jobs, but that had to be the worst.
  • dfleadflea Member Posts: 7,272

    About two years ago, my wife tells me that our kitchen sink won't drain. I do the drain cleaner thing first. When that doesn't work, I take the P-trap apart. Still nope.

    Off to the hardware store for a snake. I got the kind you can hook up to a drill and made sure it had a decent diameter line. P-trap dumps into a vertical that goes through the floor into the basement and a cleanout-wye that I opened up, funneled to a now wonderful smelling bucket (gag reflex), and inserted the snake. From there, a 15' run with a slight drop (too slight, but construction-limited) over the hallway and into the utility room, ninety, a last 10' run against the wall to the waste stack.

    Drill, drill, drill, drill, sound and resistance change, pull it out, cap everything up, test at the sink... No drain. This little dance repeats another time or two before I ask my beard to go stand by the waste stack and listen for the snake hitting it so I know for sure I'm through. She eventually tells me I'm there, I go listen to verify, then, satisfied, I retract the snake, throw it away because of how disgusting it was at that point, and button everything up.

    Aaaaaaaand the sink doesn't drain.

    Back to the hardware store, three sticks of ABS, a sweep el, a coupling, and some solvent. Out comes the sawzall. Piece by piece, that sink drain line went out the window into the yard. I don't get queasy easily, but I fought the urge to paint the walls the whole time. When I say I'd rather the pipes have been full of shit, I'm not exaggerating. Turns out the snake was never going to work. What the pipe was full of was some kind of self-healing fatty blob that smelled like the worst thing I've ever smelled. About 20' of it. The snake would chew through it, I'd retract the snake, the blob would just heal itself like a goopey sphincter closing up every time.

    I've done some absolute shit jobs, but that had to be the worst.
    the blob

    lol

    Sorry for laughing at your despair, but that story was pretty funny.
  • 1to392831weretaken1to392831weretaken Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 7,683 Swaye's Wigwam
    Fun fact: I have never lived in a house with a garbage disposal in my entire life. I lived in a different rental every single year for eight years out of college, so what are the odds?
  • RaceBannonRaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 109,922 Founders Club

    Fun fact: I have never lived in a house with a garbage disposal in my entire life. I lived in a different rental every single year for eight years out of college, so what are the odds?

    You're just a youngster.
  • PurpleThrobberPurpleThrobber Member Posts: 46,061 Standard Supporter

    Fun fact: I have never lived in a house with a garbage disposal in my entire life. I lived in a different rental every single year for eight years out of college, so what are the odds?

    You should just buy a van.

  • 1to392831weretaken1to392831weretaken Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 7,683 Swaye's Wigwam

    You should just buy a van.

    Another one!?
  • Bad_MotherDuckerBad_MotherDucker Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 1,356 Swaye's Wigwam

    I should use my might powers and pin this story.

    Sounds like something my FIL would do. Dude knows infinitely more than I do about literally anything that is practical and relates to real life (but I understand Cartesian Dualism bitch!). Anyway, he would sometimes show me shit and while doing it skip over some steps that lesser men have to follow because he actually does know what he's doing. The funniest moments with him have been when he winds up fucking himself by doing that. "We don't need to shut off the main water valve. All we have to do is this and ... fuck! fuck! fuck!" Wrong one buddy. If we'd shut it off the main, it wouldn't have mattered.
    I’ve been bitten by 120AC so many times I’ve lost track. I’m such a knucklehead that I still choose to work hot a majority of the time. Pride and laziness are a bad combo with electricity
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