Tim Samoff // Weblog (old)

August 19, 2004

Plumb out of luck...

That is a really bad pun. I apologize… But, today has been a rough one.

Remember yesterday when I mentioned that our main sewage line may be clogged? Well, I had the plumber come out to check today and the line is, in fact, clogged. But this isn’t your average “I’ll get this sucker cleaned out with my roto-rooter snake” kind of clog. No, it seems that the main line has collapsed in on itself somewhere out in our front yard.

Collapsed?

Well, yeah… As it turns out, many houses built around the time that ours was built have main sewage lines made out of ceramic tiles. These tiles work fine-and-dandy as long as no tree roots grow around them or, God forbid, the earth should shift. (Imagine that!)

So, tomorrow at around 8:30am, the plumber is going to come back with a crew and completely destroy our front yard — they’ve got to rip out a major section of the front porch, the flower bed, the brick walkway, and the yard down to the sidewalk. Now, that sounds like fun! And the best part about it? Since our home warranty only covers repairs that happen within our home, we get to pay for all of it! And, on top of that, we’ll have to replant our grass and rebuild the porch ourselves.

Nice.

But, it could be worse.

Posted at 7:02 pm

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