"Eury - AFRICA TWIN!!!!!!!" (eurylokhos)
11/17/2018 at 09:54 • Filed to: None
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"Eury - AFRICA TWIN!!!!!!!" (eurylokhos)
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Sewer cam. Not the kind of cam I would prefer to watch.
Plumber is here. He ran a camera down my main sewer line, and that is what he found. There is a big piece of metal jammed in there in a spot where it could have only been put during construction. So everything we flush comes up against it, builds up, and eventually clogs.
He cut the pipe and pulled it out. Sure enough, about 16" of steel that is used when assembling ductwork. Could be a mistake, and I’d like to think it is. However my more conspiratorial side has a theory. When the HVAC was installed, they put the furnace right in the middle of the basement in front of my big window, not over to the side where the plans had it. My wife saw that and made them move it all to where the plans had it. The plumbing was mostly complete at that point. I have a sneaking suspicion that someone decided they were going to get even with her.
At any rate. It’s all fixed now. The builder has pictures and video of what was wrong, and will be compensating me for the damages. $665 for this guy, and I’ll be trying to get them to pay for the auger rentals I did prior.
The offending item.
RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
> Eury - AFRICA TWIN!!!!!!!
11/17/2018 at 10:39 |
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Lucky it’s all sorted out! I’ll be glad when we get our basement flooding situation squared away :S
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Eury - AFRICA TWIN!!!!!!!
> RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
11/17/2018 at 10:43 |
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I’ve been there too. That’s also where I learned to only live at the top of hills.
shop-teacher
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11/17/2018 at 10:47 |
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Be it incompetence or malice (and I suspect you’re right, how dare you make them follow the plan!), th e builder definitely owes you.
MM54
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11/17/2018 at 11:01 |
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Yikes. Glad to hear the builder is compensating, that’s unacceptable (I suspect they will subsequently be going after whoever did the HVAC).
After reading the first paragraph (before making it to where it’s been removed) I was going to suggest putting a bunch of salt down the drain. From my experience with my cars, that would remove it in about a year!
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RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
> Eury - AFRICA TWIN!!!!!!!
11/17/2018 at 11:17 |
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That’s the thing, we LIVE on the top of a hill...
TheRealBicycleBuck
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11/17/2018 at 14:12 |
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Bummer. The maintenance guy at one of the houses we rented told me he hates working on new properties since the builders do shoddy work and often sabotage the property. At one of the new houses they were having intermittent sewage problems. They finally traced it to a coke bottle which someone dropped down one of the sewage lines. It floated to let liquids pass, but would block anything solid. They had to open up a wall and tear out part of the slab to get to it.
Urambo Tauro
> Eury - AFRICA TWIN!!!!!!!
11/17/2018 at 19:17 |
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Dang, that’s q uite a find.