cimorene

More and more of the things I've seen on This Old House have been coming true, starting with an enormous truck with pipes and pumps, which drained from the flooded drains in the garage/basement and blasted some clean water at obstructions in the drains to get them pulling correctly again. 4½ hours yesterday at a fairly expensive rate that makes sense given the equipment involved. Unfortunately, the drains and stuff under our house were put in by idiots, and then renovated by idiots but possibly not the SAME idiots, and they just don't make any logical sense and nobody can figure out what they're doing or where the different pipes lead to and hence why they are fucked at any given time.

So Monday we are getting a visit from a guy with a camera on a plumbing snake, so they push the camera into the pipes to find out where they go/what the problem is, which I've seen several times on This Old House and it's always looked incredibly fun. The unfortuante part is that they're coming Monday morning and I won't be able to be here to appreciate it.