Okay, my turn to vent. I need a Disney fix bad!

Ugh! still waiting. The utility marker guy finally came and marked most of the untilities, but Verizons has not showed up yet to mark their lines. Looks like there will be alot of hand digging from what this guy said though. Utility lines cross every were.

Anyway, scrappy pulled off the shower with no hitches, all went well , everyone for the most psrt was happy and had a good day. The shower was at 1pm and I had to work at 3pm so I was only in the masses for a short time.

Well , Sunday morning we got up, scrappy was up first and went down , got her coffee and such and when I got up she metioned that the first floor powder room toilet was having issues and not flushing right. I figured it probably just needed a plunging with the amount of people that were here. I had my coffee and then tried plunging the toilet. It didn't help! Well I ran some water in the sink to see how that drained, it didn't, it just filled up!.

9:20 am - Still no contractors!

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/not-in-disney-world-anymore

Well I went to basement to see if I could tell were it was clogged and low and behold, all the lines were full and we had sewage leaking in the basement from the clean-out cap. Well I got on the phone and got a hold of Brian and told him what was going on and he said he would be over in about an hour with a big plunger from his work and that should fix the problem, he hoped. Of course when he told his sleeping wife he was going over to our house for a plumbing problem she just said , yeah sure right! Took a little to convince her that we really did have one now!

Well Brian got here and did his thing with the plunger, didn't work. Tried running a hose up the sewer line from outside. Didn't work. Had to call the main office he worked at and get and emergency on-call tech to come out with a snake to try and clean out the line. Didn't work, at first.

9:45, contractors are here, but Verizon and water company haven't showed up yet to mark their lines.

Now this all started around 8am on Sunday morning and the guy with the snake didn't show up till around noon. Well they snaked and snaked and snaked and it kept hitting something and i, so t wouldn't go any farther. The guy working the snake had said from the start he thought he heard stones rattling in the line. Well I was in the basement and I heard the sewer start draining, came up and told the workers what I heard. They checked and the the lines had emptied, but they didn't go down sewer past the vent. Well they tried to pull the snake out and it was now stuck. I dont know how long they fought with it because I had to go to work at 3pm. I called scrappy at home around 7pm and they had got snake out of the line but the ran all the water in the house and it drained, but they dont know were to, they just knew it wasn't going out the sewer line. They set up an appointment for someone to come Monday morning to run a camera up the line to try and find the problem.

Monday morning, 8 am I called my insurance to see if this was covered on my homeowners insurance, big fat NO! Thats an additional coverage if you want it and you have to ask for it, they don't just offer it.

Thanks VL & Lizzy. Unfortunatly, I'm not done yet!

10:46 they are cutting branches off scrappy's tree!, Sorry honey.

Got to get out of here for a while.........................................

Yes Bella , when the camera guy came yesterday he found 2 ruptures in our sewer line. The unfortunate part is, we have a double foundation wall were the sewer line comes in to the house and were it goes out of the foundation it is under the concrete slap for our front porch and continues directly under the side walk the entire way which is about 30 feet. All concrete and the breaks are under that, somewhere. at the end of the walk is the sewer vent pipe which scrappy's tree is almost directly on top off and the line goes under the tree and then under the driveway. The one worker just said they were hoping to be done in 1 day, but if they have to hand dig everything, it will probably take about 3 days to complete. It just keeps getting better! Just hope the price stays the same, it's a big enough "Ouch!" as it is.

Hi cdub, sorry to here that. Hey its okay owning property, as long as all is going well, it just when the fit hits the shan that you have to worry.

Hi Tony, yeah thats what they are trying to do, but stones keep blocking the pipe. They are done for the day but they got there high pressure water hose stuck in the pipe now. This really sucks!. We can at least use our facilities sparingly.

Yeah Mase, I did one of those happy dances!

Well it ended up being fitting on the pipe that came apart being the major problem. The contractor said that the original contractor should have never used the fitting that they did, but the inspector that came to okay the job to be finished yesterday said that they approved that fitting because they thought it would be okay. My answer to that is NOT!

So trying to go back to make the contractor pay for this fix would not work because it was approved by the Township Code Inspector. What caused it to separate in the first place, god only knows, but its over, done, we can use our facilities and scrappy is happy. Thats all that matters, oh yeah, now I got to pay $800 to get the sidewalk fixed, thats on us too.