Roto-Rooter!!

[dragonlady7]

So the Roto-Rooter guy is coming today. I still am not convinced that our main line is blocked, but it is incontrovertibly true that the basement floods every time any water is used anywhere in the house, so... I guess. Whatever.

Friday I asked my dad how to fix the various things wrong with the house. I forwarded Dad's explanation of the sink and bathtub drains to Z. So yesterday Z went to the hardware store and bought the things Dad had described, so that when I came home, we had a new sink drain stopper that worked, and also a bathtub drain that actually functioned. it was pretty exciting.

Must dash to work now. Roto-Rooter... sigh. Z's mom said "$70?" The guy said, "$266.95!" Then said, "mumbo-jumbo better $568.95!" Z and I looked at each other, Z shrugged, I shrugged, Z said "Uh, go for it?"

...

So yeah, our drains had better be fucking awesome from here on out.

Also, I'd better have some American customers today.

Comments

[kkatowll.livejournal.com]

holy god is that a lot of money. yikes. did it work?

[lenine2.livejournal.com]

In situations like that I tell myself to just shut my eyes and write the check. You really have very little choice, unless one of your relatives is (or is dating) a plumber. Otherwise the deadly mildew will grow in your basement and creep through the heating ducts and one morning you wake up to find it has taken over your house and severed the phone lines and sealed the doors shut ....

A clogged basement drain is not to be taken lightly.