The joys of being a homeowner
Well, this Christmas is just not going as we had planned. Between Abbi's Scarlet Fever and some other disappointments we are trying to make the best of everything. Tuesday morning we awoke to Abbi telling us Bresa's carpet in her room was wet but they didn't do it. Peter jumped up to stop the overflowing toilet that had apparently been running since sometime in the middle of the night. The bathroom was a good inch deep and the water had come through the walls into Bresa's room, the living room and, of course, the hallway. Peter used the ShopVac and picked up as much water was possible and then I called my friends and rounded up as many fans as I could. My friend, Kelli, even brought over her carpet steam cleaner so we could clean out any smell from the wet carpet. I set to work cleaning the carpets and Peter set up all the fans and we waited. We were supposed to leave for NC
around 1:00 that afternoon but after this we knew we wouldn't be going anywhere. We figured we would wait and see and maybe leave in the morning but when it came time we didn't want to risk the chance of mold and mildew. So much for seeing snow in the mountain house our friend's, Bill and Brenda, had invited us up to. Peter played with the toilet and it seemed to work again but then this morning it had issues and wouldn't flush well. I guess it is time to get the septic tank pumped. Peter arranged for the guy to come out and when he did he found that our tank didn't need pumping but the filter needed cleaning. We went ahead and pumped the tank and our neighbor had his done too since he was around. Apparently there is a filter that needs cleaning every year, this would have been a good thing to know when we built the house over 7 years ago. So much for our snow trip, but I suppose things could've been a lot worse.
posted by We are the Taylors @ 11:28 AM
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