Work Day

Yesterday was a scheduled work day here in the Pierce house. We just didn't expect to have to clean up sewage along with the projects we had planned. My parents came over to help get a few things taken care of while Adam had his week of vacation. We had installing the garbage disposal, installing a new outlet in the kitchen, fixing the cutoff cupboard in the kitchen and fixing the outside light that doesn't work on the to do list. What we didn't know was that 2 of those things would come off the list b/c we had a backup of the sewer pipes. A load of laundry was put in, the shower ran, the toilet was flushed and the sink was run a bit. All of that ended in a flood in the basement, many trips up the stairs to dump the water outside (all drains lead to the sewer so no where else to dump it or we'd be cleaning it up again), several phone calls, one to insurance company to possibly start a damage claim, calls to get prices on plumbers, several trips to Menards for parts and a trip to the rental store for a power auger. Adam cleaned the sewer, found that we had roots growing in the pipes that ended up catching things & backed the whole thing up. Talk about a stinky job. Thanks ADAM for your hard work & dedication to fixing the problem. Big thanks to Adam's mom & my parents for helping out with the whole situation of cleaning & watching the kids while Adam & I cleaned. Now we have some chemicals to dump down the toilet to kill the roots so this doesn't happen again. I have a mostly dry basement, a garbage disposal that works, and another outlet. And today will be another work day, only this time to do some disinfecting & cleaning out of the basement. Whew!