Comments on Queen of the Clan: Plumbers & Water

So sorry about the trouble! Last time our well had...

2012-01-09T14:10:40.925-06:00

So sorry about the trouble! Last time our well had trouble my cute boys had the best time inventing water systems in our kitchen. I still laugh thinking about it.
Good luck!

Thank you, everyone! I needed the laughs, empathy,...

2012-01-08T11:44:45.086-06:00

Thank you, everyone! I needed the laughs, empathy, and advice. We're surviving. My sister and her hubby were here visiting from out of state, so we ended up spending a lot of time at her hotel. And some awesome friends let us take over their laundry room for the weekend so we could take care of everything that got soaked. Thank goodness it was all water from the kids showers, instead of the yucky nasty stuff it could have been. If that had been the case, we would have ditched all the clothes and went on a shopping spree. =)

No good stories from me today. Water is life so I...

2012-01-07T17:50:24.417-06:00

No good stories from me today.
Water is life so I wish you the best this week. Sounds like you are keeping chipper and grateful for that silver lining. That's commendable.

I'm married to a plumber so I have lots of sto...

2012-01-07T11:51:55.040-06:00

I'm married to a plumber so I have lots of stories that include our own projects never getting done! But beware. Not all plumbers are created equal. We know the best, most honest, most fair, most reasonably priced, etc... So call us for references if you live down further south. My hubby mostly stays up in the northern area. Glad you got it covered though! Those things are nightmares! LOL

We had our sewer back up once and I learned that y...

2012-01-07T10:36:32.588-06:00

We had our sewer back up once and I learned that you should never store anything precious on the floor. I lost most of my art foundations portfolio. it was so sad. Luckily our basement was unfinished, so the rest of the damage was minimal.
Hope things get fixed up uber fast.

Our only tub had to be replaced about six years ag...

2012-01-06T22:50:58.166-06:00

Our only tub had to be replaced about six years ago. The contractors took days and days to do it. The whole time, I was feeling lazy and kind of sick, but it didn't really hit until after they left. That's when I found out that I'd gotten Hepatitis A (the food poisoning kind.) All the contractors had to go get big huge gamma globulin shots.

We've had 5 flood in the basement in the past ...

2012-01-06T20:26:31.232-06:00

We've had 5 flood in the basement in the past 3 years. Once from the upstairs toilet breaking, once from the downstairs shower's water supply breaking and 3 times from the sprinklers breaking and draining down the basement wall.
Grrrrr.
Daughter's boyfriend is a plumber.
:)

Mine won't be as drastic a story as others, bu...

2012-01-06T18:44:24.419-06:00

Mine won't be as drastic a story as others, but...my husband and son worked out in our front yard digging and digging and digging night after night following the black pipe line the contractor put in and hooked up to the old clay pipe. Finally after about 26 feet they found the connection. The clay pipe was busted on two ends because the contractor didn't pack the dirt under the black pipe, so when it sunk it pulled the clay pipe down thereby breaking it.
All week long as my husband worked his job and then came home at night to dig, he kept thinking about his sacrament meeting talk. Nothing EVER came to him until the Sunday morning of the talk when he looked out the window and saw the big hole. Then it came to him that we sometimes struggle with prayer the way we struggle with problems like plumbing. He used the hole/digging as a metaphor and gave one of the best talks I've ever heard him give! More importantly, he felt that that was how the Lord wanted him to give that talk. <3 Good luck with your plumbing, Danyelle. I feel for you!

That's one thing I'm grateful for after al...

2012-01-06T15:37:20.016-06:00

That's one thing I'm grateful for after all our floods--they were easy fixes and we kept running water. *hugs*

Oh, dear! Not fun. I hope everything gets fixed ...

2012-01-06T15:19:50.243-06:00

Oh, dear! Not fun. I hope everything gets fixed quickly.

This past spring we had our bathroom shower re-tiled. The contracts were . . . inept. We were without water for so long that I gave up on the sponge baths and got a room at the local motel. Luckily, this was just before tourist season, so I got the lower off-season rate. It made a great personal writing retreat, too.

YOU HAD TO ASK! How about I just mention the most ...

2012-01-06T15:08:11.696-06:00

YOU HAD TO ASK! How about I just mention the most recent but hardly the worst. The people that set our granite countertops and hung out kitchen sink only used glue so mid Christmas week our basement started flooding along with our kitchen because the sink fell an inch and knocked out the pipes under the sink. Of course the dishwasher had to be running at the time. It does make you realize all the water you use. We found that the plastic juice gallons were perfect for a toilet flush. We have 150 stored. Came in handy 2 Christmas's ago when a pipe froze. Good luck. :)

Call me, girlfriend. I'm the "go without ...

2012-01-06T14:54:02.841-06:00

Call me, girlfriend. I'm the "go without water" expert around here. We had a water heater burst while we were GONE. Hours went by and we came home to an enormous flood. We don't have a basement, so it was in our laundry room, kitchen, dining room and even seeped under the wall into our walk-in closet. What a mess. When you walked on the floor, it seeped up through the seems in the laminate flooring.

We called the experts, they gutted 1/2 our house, replaced 8 inches of drywall all around, the sub floor in those rooms and all the flooring. It took 3 weeks and we were without water for a big chunk of that while they disconnected stuff to replace flooring, etc.

1) Go buy lots of bottled water for drinking and cooking, not just the little bottles, but the jugs.

2) Go to a restaurant and see if they have 5 gallon buckets you can have, then go to the neighbors or family and fill them up with water. Use that water to flush your toilets and take sponge baths in.

3) Let your ward family, friends, etc. help you out by bringing in some convenient meals with NO DISHES TO CLEAN. Seriously. You have enough to deal with.

4) And just for fun, set up the tent in the living room and pretend that you're on an extended camping trip. That means no lights too. Or make it a PIONEER week and use it to teach the kids what to be thankful for.

5) BREATHE - This too shall pass.

6) When it's all over, write it into a book. ROFL!!!

((((HUGS))))

I learned it will happen. Don't think you'...

2012-01-06T14:51:03.330-06:00

I learned it will happen. Don't think you'll get through life without some standing water. Have a good cry. Get through the mess and realize that in a year you will forget 90% of the stress. Hmm... Now that I put it that way, it sounds a little like childbirth, doesn't it?

I learned everything I ever wanted to learn about ...

2012-01-06T14:45:36.574-06:00

I learned everything I ever wanted to learn about plumbing from my dad. There are 3 basic rules...

1 - Payday is on Friday
2 - Crap flows downhill
3 - don't chew your fingernails!

This summer in the midst of a trying pregnancy, I had all my major appliances go out at the same time - Water Heater, Dryer, Washer, broken pipes trying to get the water heater in and out, shower in one bathroom broke. The only advice I can give is to breathe and take it one day at a time!

We bought some 5 gallon water containers similar to gas cans, filled them at work and used them for basically everything. While the plumbers (my Visiting Teacher's husband, his dad and my dad) were in and out of the house, we "moved" into my mom's house and camped there. GOOD LUCK!!!