An Aggravating Change Of Plans For My New Year's Eve!

lol Poor pye. I see the humor in it but only cause I can totally relate to it. I'd say it was about 13-14 yrs. ago back when hubby and I were dating, we went to my bro's land in northern WI where he had a small mobile that was primarily used as a hunting cabin. It was supposed to be a week vacation. We ended up replacing all the water pipes cause my bro failed to blow em out b4 the temps. dropped up there and every friggin' pipe burst. We didn't know it, of course, till AFTER we turned the water on and it was flooding the whole place. Ughhhhh!! Fix one pipe only to find it had burst in another part of the mobile. It was a total mess and took most of our vacation to replace the piping and clean everything up. That was our first experience ever working with piping. lol Let's just say we are now experts when it comes to replacing water pipes/drains. See if any of your friends or neighbors have a 'drain snake' you could borrow. If not, see if you have a rental place near you that you can rent one from. They aren't hard to use and do a better job/less messy than drain cleaners/unstoppers. You also don't have to bail any water b4 using the drain snakes. (roto-rooters)

You are not the only one. I just get back home with car problem, so I have to stay home. I was planing to be with my friends, instead I am going to be at home watching movies. Not a big deal, but I will have to go to repair shop on the 2nd.... Always something.. Happy New Year!

Oh my dear friend, i fee3l for you. Let me tell you my strory and you will see why. Way back in the early 1990s We moved in to a beautiful 17th century cottage in the middle of the village we now live near. It was perfect, full of atmosphere and 17th century charm. NOW the thing i noticed about the 17th century is no matter how charming the house was its sewage disposal system had been added later, around about 1950 I estimated. However all was well until the first heavy rains of winter. The gravel on the lane we lived on was not designed to be driven over but even the 100 yards or so was far too much to walk so it was driven over 3 to 4 times a day (not by us it needs to be understood) this had the impact of blocking the sewer. All sewers were inter-related and the lowest point was just outside our front door. Well, at first it looked like a small flood in the garden, until we noticed it did not drasin away. Also, it seemed to have things floating in it, maze or sweetcorn was very popular. You guessed it, what I now had was an open sewer threatening to flood my home. It was getting worse. At first, i started bailing it out, but it seemed to be filling up from somewhere, ewwwww the thought of it now. I decided the only way to get the water out was to suck it out through a platic tube. well, i must confess, a mouthfull came into my mouth. Now I immediately spat it out, but didnt feel well. Dont know if it was pschological or not, but at some level i knew something was wrong. After a couple of weeks we were getting ready for christmas, the flood long forgotten, when i was struck down with the most incredable pain in my side. I had to sit down. Anyway after a while i went to have a pee and had to stop half-way through I was in agony. A trip to the Dr was quickly arainged and she said one word, hospital, now. I was all ready for going by bus but was whisked away by ambulence. I was well on the way to kidney and liver failure, began as you can imagine by the ingestion of raw sewage. I was in hospital, oblivious from november 93 until july 1994. Talk about changing your plasns lol blessed be

well hopefully ya get it unplugged and dont have to call super in and aint that a b***h to happen this time of the year sorry it has happened and ya get it fixed so you can relax later in the evening Hapy New Year!

I can't top that kind of excitement. And your timing is perfect, being it is the holidays. You might be able to fix this yourself. If the problem might just be a hair clog, I use a length of metal wire, like from a coat hanger, put a small hook on the end and dig out the hair. The problem might be in the trap and if you have a small snake ($10-15) you might be able to clear it. I have also used my vacuumm, as I can switch it to blowing air. So, I take the hose and wrap an old rag around it when I put it over the drain. I have had success with the air pressure blowing the clog out of the pipes. The black gunk spitting all over the bathroom would be the last alternative. Seems like he could wrap something around it where it goes into the drain to keep the gunk from flying out. At least someone will be having fun today!

Aw Pye, I'm so sorry..that just stinks!...another one of life's stupid aggravating problems. This did happen to me once also at Christmas/New Year, snowing and blizzarding outside, when I lived in an apartment...came home from work at 10:30pm, and my apartment door was wide open with all these maintenance men walking in and out, hoses, mops, everywhere. My first words were and I tell you I screamed it "WHERE ARE MY CATS!??"........This was when I had Kash and her sister Tyler.....I totally freaked out because they didn't even know I had cats. I didn't even ask what was going on at that moment, just wanted to know my cats were still in the house somewhere and not lost outside in the snow. I was fit to be tied! Both cats, still very young, were crouched down hiding under the Christmas tree where they felt safe, Thank Goodness! My bathroom was a disaster, the hallway, and the rug was partially wet....what a mess. If I remember correctly (many years ago), it was because of the tree roots blocking the sewer or something like that, and it all backed up. I have to say though, that they cleaned every bit of it up so it was spotless when they were done. I hope yours clears up as soon as possible so you can enjoy your day and the start of your New Year.....I'll send some good vibes your way quickly!!!!

Our plumbing has been communicating, but ours is not that bad yet. We even rented a commercial snake for the outside drain, but it did not fix the problem. Next stop plumber, but I was trying to avoid it until I have my root canal and get it paid for. We shot one of those things out several places, to no avail. I think what happened to our lines is that we went out of town, left the toilet seat up, and the kitty cats and the wind in the window knocked some stuff in. We must have missed something when we cleaned it out. Hubby refused to do the power shooter down the toilet.I guess I am glad about that.

I guess I generally have medical emergencies rather than plumbing ones! The time the roomie broke the pipe under the kitchen sink wasn't on a holiday, but it was late on a Weds afternoon. Our plumber did get out right away & fixed it tho. And the medical emergencies are not even usuerally mine!

No, can't say as I have... If you have baking soda and vinegar in the house, you don't have to go out and buy toxic Draino.

LOL! You have to see the humor in your situation, pyewacket. It has happened to me before, so I can very well relate. I won't even go into how bad my day was yesterday, and just when I thought I had finally gotten everything under control-I try to log onto the internet and everything is frozen. After trying every trick I could think of to gain access, I finally give up and call good old Yahoo seeking tech support. Wrong move! They were no help at all-just referred me to the manufacturer of my laptop, who wanted to charge me for tech support. I hastily told them, "No thanks," and finally solved the problem myself a short time later. I discovered that I was afflicted with more viruses than you can shake a stick at. Of course this whole process took up so much time that I finally gave up and shut the darned thing down for the night. Thankfully, today has been much less eventful-as I hope yours was also.

I can't say off the top of my head ever having anything like that happen. Last night though around 6;30 I was only going to rest my eyes. And I slept thru New Years Eve. I woke up at 12:17 am. So I said to heak with it and went back to sleep. All I wanted to do is chill and have a nice night, as I have to work New Years day.

Oh no! That toally sucks Pye, your plans went down the drain... well kinda. I'll keep my fingers crossed that the drain-o stuff will work for you and you can get back to just relaxing.

Hi pyewacket :) Yep,often too,lol.I was home with our daughter on a saturday and my boyfriend was woking,so we decided to watch movies and make the couch potatoes,haha.I put in a movie and smelled a burning smell.Got up off the couch and went in the kitchen and there was the smell again.Opened the cupboard door to the sink underneath and the tap hose had leaked into the outlet(plug)for the hot water automatic dispenser.There were sparks coming out of it and smoke.Boyfriends phone does not work in the woods because hes far away in the deep forest,haha.I dont know what to do,called his friend and his friend came and shut off the power to it and also blew up one main circut breaker,no power in the house.Had to call my boyfriends brother who had to come fix the pipe and also the neighbour who is an electrician and had just came home with his girlfriend,this is on a saturday mind you,lol.WOW,pay,pay!Electrician came,fixed the problem after a bit,then his borther worked on the pipe and hose.After they had left it was too late then for watching movies because i had to prepare supper then,GRRR!!!Totaly screwed up my afternoon,because my boyfriend was toooooo lazy to fix the flippin outlet and pipe in the first place when i told him about a week before. Peanutjar:)Happy New Year!:)

If I started to list my problems with the plumbing in this house, and all that plans I've had to change because of them... like having to hand flush my toilet or fill my washing machine with a bucket from the bathtub (talk about a sore back!), or having to carry water from the bathroom to the kitchen in order to wash dishes, you'd have to butt in after a few hours and tell me to shut up already.

Oh wow that sucks! I've had those kinds of days too. That's what sucks about living in an older place!! It seems like there is always SOMETHING! I get the tub from stop leaking (well if only for a few months) then a whole is formed in the kitchen sink pipe, get that fixed then the washing machine drain overflows (due to upside down plumbing and cat hair), then get that under control to find another hole in the other kitchen sink pipe - still haven't fixed that one yet. My dad is suppose to come up and fix it for us so we don't have to pay a plumber. By the time he gets if fixed though I bet the bath tub will be leaking again LOL.

I hear you loud and clear! About a year ago, I know it happened when my brother was visiting here from New Jersey at the time, we heard a noise that sounded like the toilet was running in our downstairs bathroom which is off our closed in back porch. I opened the door and saw it was flooded all over and you could hear water coming from somewhere, we just couldn't figure out where. OF COURSE it was on a Saturday evening, which meant there was no way we were going to get a plumber to come until Monday. My mom's 90, I' completely worthless when it comes to anything like that and my brother is extremely book smart but he's never repaired anything in his life so I called my husband at about midnight who was 20 miles away at our house and he told us what to do to shut the water off because that was the only way to stop if from spurting out into the bathroom. We pay for our water here so not only would we have had a completely flooded bathroom, back porch and who know what else but we'd have had an enormous water bill. We'd had plans that weekend to have a really nice dinner prepared by my brother who makes some bad-a** dishes if you like hot and spicy stuff but now we had no running water. Our regular plumber/heating guy who does all our work like that was there - bless him - bright and early Monday morning and he had it fixed within about 3 hours, which was pretty good considering he had to cut out part of the wall by the shower to replace a pipe that had broken but what a pain in the drain that was. But for you, Pye, look at it this way - your troubles went down the drain to finish out the year so now you can start 2008 nice and clean and fresh! Annie

I never make plans for anything because something will invariably happen to mess things up. Today is an at home day for me because of the weather, that won't change at least. So I have New Years Eve off and I can go back to bed and sleep for a couple of hours which is fine by me...lol.