CHECK-IN: Special SUNDAY 10/6/2019 - All are WELCOME!

Diva, Happy birthday to DGS 1...time flies too fast!!

Good morning all and HAPPY BIRTHDAY to DGS 🥳🎂🎈

I am in and running like a madman already..,off to fix folks washer

Have a great day! ☕️☕️☕️

I’m in. We’re home and first thing on my schedule today is grocery shopping for basics. I’ll also be doing laundry and getting my new phone completely set up. Back on the straight and narrow limiting refined sugar. Another blue day ahead.

Cyndee I had that problem too with the tree roots in the pipes. The plumber had to install another clean out so he could actually reach his equipment to some roots that were in pipes thirty feet under the sidewalk. He gave them a trim so all roots were gone for the time being. Unfortunately once a year they clog up again because the roots grow back. He said eventually I'll need to replace the pipes. Not looking forward to that expense.

That makes me feel lucky that my city takes care of problems like that if they aren’t actually on my property. And the only tree on my property belongs to them anyway!

My former podiatrist had a problem with his pipes needing replacement (possibly due to long-term root intrusion). He found a company that actually inserts a new PVC pipe inside the existing pipe which negated the need to dig up his property from the street to the house. Cost him $5K but he said it was worth it.

When I had a problem, which was related to a collapse in the pipe under the foundation, the plumber ended up running the bill up to $5K; but it was one of those emergency “rooter” companies, on a weekend, and they totally invent ways to hike up the bill. Once they’ve torn your sewage system apart on a weekend, there isn’t much you can do but bite your tounge and pay them to make the system whole again.

CC: cyndee,

Oh, the guy who got the job up to $5K removed both downstairs toilets and snaked the guest toilet; the snake came up out of the pipe in the main bathroom and was flailing around hitting walls and doing damage. He ultimately insisted that he HAD to install a clean-out, then insisted he had to use his robot camera (more $$$), then claimed that the foundation had collapsed the pipe and he had to dig under the house to install a new section of pipe.

I do have a regular plumbing company I use; they charge a “trip fee” as does practically everbody around the valley. But I trust them. And if I ever have a problem, weekend or not, I’m calling them. If it is a sewer problem, if I have to, I’ll check into a hotel and pamper myself until the plumber can come! $5K was a vacation trip to New York!