Savebobette
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Lived in this house for four months. The only issues I've had with the waterlines is one of the toilets continuously runs after flushing for at least 15 minutes and will not flush again until it is done. Other than that things have run pretty smoothly until two weeks ago. I was running the washing machine, the dishwasher, and the kitchen sink, and when I went to check on the laundry the floor drain in the laundry room was backing up water and flooding the floor. I've never noticed this happen before.
I stopped running all of the water in the house but then after an hour I went to draw a bath. The laundry room floor drain backed up again. It doesn't back up after every use of the sink or the dishwasher but here and there with the laundry room washer and the shower or tub.
The toilets also fill the bowl with water to the top after flushing without any visible blockage and slowly go down until there is barely water in the bowl. There is random gurgling in the toilets, the kitchen sink and what sounds like under the floor next to the laundry room.
I finally call the landlord and she has a plumber come out immediately. He throws snake after snake after snake into the main line in front of the house and ends up pulling out a 9 x 9" Terry cloth rag.
There is absolutely no way this towel could be one of our own.
Growing up my husband and I were both raised not to put ANYTHING in the toilet aside from tp and have had issues living with other people not obiding by these simple rules.
So after the plumber pulls out the culprit, my landlady paid the standard $157 for the snake job but is convinced that we did it. She says that before we moved in she had "her plumber" take care of clearing all the pipes "before" we moved in. she claims she paid this other plumber $500 to clear every pipe in the house and did not use him for this job because since then he's moved to Arizona.
To me it sounds like she got ripped off & I know for a FACT that neither my husband or I flushed or stuffed this mysterious rag down a drain so is there anyway this could have happened unbenownst to either of us?
I ask because even though she paid for it, she is still lecturing me to use trash cans in the bathroom and just stupid obvious things I've done my whole life. I would cover the cost of the job in a second to shut her up but we are SO broke.
It sounds like she got scammed by her previous plumber, who wasnt even looking for anything specific & I would really like to have something to say to her if she tries to hold us respobsible for this rag we've never seen in our lives.
Sidenote: this house was built in '58 & looks like it hasnt been taken care of very well (We are broke in our 20's & dont have a lot of options.) Also, before we could even mow the lawn, the backyard had some garbage scattered, thought it was the neighbors kids, but we recovered rags, socks, toys, fake jewlery and even a butcher's knife out from the lawn. The plumber didnt see any drain or access point in the back when trying to find a point to snake from but could it be possible a flood from the rain pushed a rag into our system?
Any possible explanations or questions will be appreciated.
I stopped running all of the water in the house but then after an hour I went to draw a bath. The laundry room floor drain backed up again. It doesn't back up after every use of the sink or the dishwasher but here and there with the laundry room washer and the shower or tub.
The toilets also fill the bowl with water to the top after flushing without any visible blockage and slowly go down until there is barely water in the bowl. There is random gurgling in the toilets, the kitchen sink and what sounds like under the floor next to the laundry room.
I finally call the landlord and she has a plumber come out immediately. He throws snake after snake after snake into the main line in front of the house and ends up pulling out a 9 x 9" Terry cloth rag.
There is absolutely no way this towel could be one of our own.
Growing up my husband and I were both raised not to put ANYTHING in the toilet aside from tp and have had issues living with other people not obiding by these simple rules.
So after the plumber pulls out the culprit, my landlady paid the standard $157 for the snake job but is convinced that we did it. She says that before we moved in she had "her plumber" take care of clearing all the pipes "before" we moved in. she claims she paid this other plumber $500 to clear every pipe in the house and did not use him for this job because since then he's moved to Arizona.
To me it sounds like she got ripped off & I know for a FACT that neither my husband or I flushed or stuffed this mysterious rag down a drain so is there anyway this could have happened unbenownst to either of us?
I ask because even though she paid for it, she is still lecturing me to use trash cans in the bathroom and just stupid obvious things I've done my whole life. I would cover the cost of the job in a second to shut her up but we are SO broke.
It sounds like she got scammed by her previous plumber, who wasnt even looking for anything specific & I would really like to have something to say to her if she tries to hold us respobsible for this rag we've never seen in our lives.
Sidenote: this house was built in '58 & looks like it hasnt been taken care of very well (We are broke in our 20's & dont have a lot of options.) Also, before we could even mow the lawn, the backyard had some garbage scattered, thought it was the neighbors kids, but we recovered rags, socks, toys, fake jewlery and even a butcher's knife out from the lawn. The plumber didnt see any drain or access point in the back when trying to find a point to snake from but could it be possible a flood from the rain pushed a rag into our system?
Any possible explanations or questions will be appreciated.
