Dunbar Plumbing
Master Plumber
Marlin336 said:I guess they misplaced those straps and used bricks instead.
It's amazing how some people will do something dangerous before they'll actually reach for their pocket and spend a dime to make it safe.
Here's one for the books.
Today, up in Cincinnati, 2 story 2 family......shouldn't be there to begin with but that's another story.
Clogged second floor kitchen sink. Run my cable, opens up at 34 feet, great! I clean up everything and get that stainless steel looking like new.
Go downstairs towards the basement, hear water cascading. < Not good but I as an optimist think "Great, busted pipe! More work!"
Not exactly. The first floor was vacant, I open the door to this downstairs kitchen and the entire floor, the kitchen cabinet doors popped open, black sludge in the double sink, sludge on the cabinet walls like there was an explosion.
Son of a *****!!!! I walk in there, throw my bag of tools up on the counter in an angered fashion, the entire end outlet waste blows off sending even more black sludge and wastewater all over my legs/feet because I'm right in front of the cabinet now. Now I'm pissed.....hook that end outlet waste up so I can use my cable machine top down through the basket strainer so I can have hyrdropressure against the clog and sure enough, blow a hole through the plastic trap......and I just reworked this drain 2 months earlier.
This by no means is not the first time this has happened to me with a clog moving and stopping at a lower elevation.....it has happened many times in my years as a plumber.
It's friday, I've worked way too many hours this week and then this happened. I got it open, cleaned up the kitchen floor "within reason" even though it took 2 towels and 3 rolls of paper towels, it still needs to be thoroughly cleaned again along with the entire basement.
When I talk to this property owner that lives in the 937 area code....I'm going to push hard to see if he'll let me run that stack in 2" along with busting up that concrete floor at the base and get rid of that constriction like they all are where smaller pipe increases to larger.
There is no way I could of controlled that situation short of putting towels and rocks in the double bowl sink.....but then the tubular piping underneath would of blown apart anyway.....and a lot sooner.
Therapy is needed at this time.
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