They even canceled school today and it hasn't even started to snow yet! Our area is expected to get 6 inches!! I bet we don't be we are preparing just in case.
I'm working on the basement drain again today. Jami left a few days ago saying she would return the next day to fix the drain... I have shop vacked out the laundry room several times. Last time I even got the standing water around the edges of the room. It is all nasty mold everywhere. When I am clearing the drain down there I am very careful about not taking the mold thru the basement, wiping my feet on a towel soaked in bleach whenever I leave the laundry room. I KNOW no one else is even that careful. I'm going to have to mop the path from the laundry room to the bathroom, and probably everywhere! with bleach when/ if this is ever over. Jami says that the floor drain doesn't go directly to the Main Drain, that the clog is between the laundry room and the main line that runs from the toilet to the street down there. I'm suctioning the standing water over the floor drain again and then putting in a drain cleaner that Toby recommended and praying that works. Yesterday I got that drain completely empty and when I stuck the shop vac hose in the drain it sucked up a large bolt. ?? What the hell else is down there? I bought a drain cover for the floor drain when we moved in but have often gone down there and found it left uncovered. Whatever. It is a hell of a lot of work for me to clear the drain!! I bought a 3 Gallon shopvac but it sure doesn't seem to take up 3 gallons!! I've been emptying it into a 5 gallon bucket and carry that to dump down the toilet down there. I can fill it with 2 shopvacfuls and could fit another 1 in the bucket except that would make it too heavy for me to safely carry. So. I can't believe this is really a 3 gallon shopvac!! I'm buyout great at math but I shouldn't be any to empty it even 2 times into my 5 gallon bucket.
Time to get to it. I HATE THIS So Much!!!!
Maybe. Maybe. Maybe this might work???
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