water water water

 As Bob was doing the laundry ( yes, he's special does all the laundry every week!) he noticed a huge puddle ( 4 feet in diameter) where the A/C drain is ! Yuck 

Our laundry is in the basement and there are 4 iron drain pipes taking care of the water from the bathrooms, the kitchen, the washing machine and the a/c that go into the main sewer pipe and out ibto the city sewer.

 After turning off the washer we got out the wet/dry vacuum and sucked up the puddle... but the drain wasn't draining!! All the water we sucked up had to be carried up out of the basement and dumped out in the back yard.

Bob called our usual plumbing company.. no help till the middle of next week and we were  going to be without water or toilets etc. The next company, a referral from the first, couldn't help till next Monday. This company referred us to the third which could be out that afternoon ..

Not knowing how long this whole thing was going to take, we reserved a hotel room not too far away...

The plumber came.. found the two pipe openings and got to work with his snake and an inspection camera. He was successful... no break in the sewer pipe which collects from all the other pipes and goes out into a collection place for all the houses on our cul de sac. But the pipe does have scale and after 47 years I am not surprised.

So we are back to normal... Bob finished the laundry... we cancelled the hotel... turned the a/c back on. The plumbing company will be back and de-scale the sewer pipe.... and we crashed!!  Not how we planned to spend the day... cost - over $400.