Where'm I gonna live?

[jimhelm]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

My oil dude came today, 203.2 gallons, $735.58.

Oh, he left me a new calender.

Ouch.

Too bad you can't get it in NJ. 30¢ cheaper over here.

[Undertoad]

Sounds about my rate, except mine was watered down.

[Happy Monkey]

CO detectors are probably cheaper than trying to heat the outside.

[Undertoad]

OK last night I discovered two new things about the place

One is the washer hookup does not drain, or does not drain fast enough, which left about a washer's full of wash and rinse water on the basement floor.

Two is the dishwasher was never actually hooked up to water.

I won't mention to the management company that hot and cold is reversed on two out of the three places it is dispensed. I find that part funny. But certainly it was some plumber's amateur hour out here, and damage has been done.

[Clodfobble]

My dad's washer did that for two decades, though it leaked somewhat less water than that. His solution was that we were always to put a bunch of towels on the floor whenever we did laundry. I recommend you don't go that route, your kids will think you're cheap and lazy.

[Undertoad]

Hmmm but that makes me think... if I need to, I could drain the washer into a greywater holding tank of some fashion, and then siphon it outside. Or even carry it outside. This is only possible because it's a newfangled high efficiency washer which uses less water. Bosch, you know the Germans make good stuff.

On the dishwasher, I notice that the parts to actually hook it up are sitting under the sink. I also notice that it was never bolted in. Amateur hour.

[jimhelm]

Time to freak out on the management company.

[glatt]

Yeah. Better to complain about a laundry list of items now than a slow drip of problems over time. (See what I did there?) If you wait, then they will think you broke the stuff after living with everything being fine initially.

[Undertoad]

I don't freak out on anybody!

[jimhelm]

[Undertoad]

Oh, it's not just the washer drain having a hard time draining... it's the entire house! After blocking off the washer drain, the morning shower overfilled the kitchen sink.

[jimhelm]

What. The. Fuck.

[BigV]

It would take an amateur a lot longer than an hour to fuck up the plumbing to this degree. I think you're dealing with a serious DIYer.

As a dedicated DIYer, you have my sympathies.

I also agree that you should make a list of these major items and present them earlier rather than later, and press for some kind of inspection/baseline/checklist etc.

Good luck man.

[glatt]

Does the toilet flush into the kitchen sink too?

Sounds like there might be roots growing into the sewer pipe outside. A good plumber will be able to identify the problem. It may require a visit from roto-rooter.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by glatt

Does the toilet flush into the kitchen sink too?

Sounds like there might be roots growing into the sewer pipe outside. A good plumber will be able to identify the problem. It may require a visit from roto-rooter.

I thought of this too, and it was the source of the trouble for my house when I had some sewage backup. Fucking gross beyond words, not to mention seriously unsanitary. The answer was to bring in one of those BFG commercial rooters the size of a generator with mileage markers on the snake that went up to triple digits. He galumphed that monster down my basement stairs and setup at my main cleanout, just inches from the floor drain in the basement on the main waste stack. He fired it up and fed the snake down the pipe. rrrrRRRRRrrrrrrRRRRRrrrrrRRRRR... he kept this up for a while, frequently withdrawing the snake for inspection/etc. He brought it up and there was some foul witches' hair in a giant gross mass. Not hair, *roots*. Very fine, very many, growing through the concrete pipe laid down at construction time (70 plus years ago). He was waaaay waaaaaaaay past where my longest snake could ever have reached, and his cutting head was sized for the six inch pipe.

There was a happy ending (not that kind) and I haven't had any sewer backup problems since--zero.

UT mentioned a greywater holding tank, that sounds like he's on a septic system, something I know less about since my main experience is on city sewers. But he absolutely has, at a minimum, a problem with his sewer/septic line drains. This, in my opinion, is the responsibility of the property owner to fix.