Plumbing Issues

So last night was terrible. Michael and I spent about two hours trying to de clog the toilets and bathtub upstairs. Michael first tried plunging our toilet, but then it didn’t do anything so he thought about last time this happened and remembered that we needed to pour boiling water down the drains. I don’t know how many pots of boiling water we took upstairs, but it didn’t change anything. If anything, it made it worse for the bathtub. I never had seen poop come out of the bathtub overflow drain spot. That was so disgusting!

We knew we were in too deep so we thought we would have a plumber come out to see what they could do. Michael’s dad ended up coming over for the afternoon/evening to help find the cause of the clog. When they couldn’t get anywhere with the auger from my dad, they went to the local hardware stores in search of a place that rents tools. When they had no luck, it was time to get the yellow pages out to find a plumber in the area.

Thankfully roto rooter was available to come out tonight, but between 6 and 9 PM. And wouldn’t you know it was at the end of their time frame when he called to say he was on the way. After he worked on our toilet for a few minutes and got it de clogged, he moved onto the other bathroom. Unfortunately this one took a little more time and effort to break up the clog. The end result was a wad of black people’s hair that had looked like a small rodent that got stuck in the pipes. It was also very disgusting!

But at least we now have opened pipes and shouldn’t have this issue occur anymore. Well if it does within the next six months, we are covered, but I hope we don’t have any more issues like this. It was so gross smelling all the crap and then hearing about it going all over the bathroom, including the walls. Michael told me about a couple close calls he had where he almost fell into the bathtub (face first) filled with poop. He also had some poop water hit him on the nose. While it was funny to hear about it, I can only imagine how grossed out he really was. At least now I know that he will be able to change a dirty diaper without any problems. See something good always comes out of something bad. Lets hope we are having lots of good from now on!