Minor Win thread - Life is good!

Drain is blocked solid but the plumber is coming Monday with a much larger auger.

Managed to get the seized cleanout plug out today. Heat, cold chisel and hammer ftw.

I have seen the Molvo, and it is good.

I looked very closely and had to ask where the Volvo ends and the Miata begins. 

Win!

It was just tree roots and not a collapsed drain.

Also, we now know that it's a plastic line after the cast iron cleanout leaves the house so yay for that too!

Boo that the plastic line is cracked and roots are coming in but that's a problem I can budget for in the future. Right now I have flush toilets again.

ShawnG said:

Win!

It was just tree roots and not a collapsed drain.

Also, we now know that it's a plastic line after the cast iron cleanout leaves the house so yay for that too!

Boo that the plastic line is cracked and roots are coming in but that's a problem I can budget for in the future. Right now I have flush toilets again.

 

My house, December 23rd.   Now I really need to remember to phone the city to finish the job.

My little machine got the logs floating downriver again, anyway.

In reply to Streetwiseguy :

I've got a machine with a 3/8" cable but it wasn't making a dent.

Plumber had some professional grade thing with a 7/8" cable that made short work of it.

Money well spent.

If you need to see where the roots are coming in, call the city and start yelling at them about their drain being blocked and a lawsuit coming. They'll send a guy out with a camera to prove the clog is on your side, then you'll know exactly where to dig. 

I needed windshield deicer and cleaner for the work van today so I stopped at advance auto parts which is 3 blocks from work. They are closing the store. They were also out of both but they had 90% off of hard parts so I was able to get 2 front  rotors for the subaru retail 216 dollars for 14 dollars. I did some additional shopping while there and got about 300 dollars worth of stuff for 85 dollars.  Everything else was 30% to 60% off.

Not a meme or a win, but just funny. I have a number of clients who are Indian and Iranian. I've found most of them to be good people and very loyal customers. A few minutes ago I'm chatting with one of the Iranians and one of the Indians showed up. We are all lamenting the difficulty that we have finding quality employees (we're all in construction). I say that I've had pretty good luck with employees who were born overseas, since they often have a better work ethic than American born young people who have been relatively pampered in life. Their response was to complain about  "foreigners". I found it hilarious that a couple of  dark-skinned 1st generation Americans would be ragging on those damn foreigners (By which they mainly meant Hispanics and Chinese). How quickly things change.

After a less than great claim experience with my auto insurance company that I have been with for the last 22 years, I dropped them.

I shopped around and Flo had the best rates for the same coverage. My premium is literally half as much as I was paying and I even added another driver to the policy.

I survived my first day at the new gig after nearly 6 months on the sidelines.  Driving to work in the dark still sucks but otherwise a good first day.  

ShawnG said:

In reply to Streetwiseguy :

I've got a machine with a 3/8" cable but it wasn't making a dent.

Plumber had some professional grade thing with a 7/8" cable that made short work of it.

Money well spent.

If you need to see where the roots are coming in, call the city and start yelling at them about their drain being blocked and a lawsuit coming. They'll send a guy out with a camera to prove the clog is on your side, then you'll know exactly where to dig. 

They have been here many, many times.  Annually, until the elbow at the main plugged so solid they had to dig the street up to replace it.  Since then, every other fall.

I don't want to dig my front lawn all to hell.  Might try the sewer relining service.

In reply to stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) :

State Farm? Cause that sounds like State Farm.  Because I used to have State farm. Used to.