MaddieMom6
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Went down to the basement to get a roast out of the freezer and was greeted by a few inches of very murky water with food bits floating it in and I can't even talk about the smell. It seems that the basment sink has been spewing out the back up from our kitchen sink and dishwasher for well over a week. We are a family of 8 so you can only imagine the mess.
So I invited my husband down the to the basment to share the joy and we emptied everything out and shopvac'd out the filth and the bleached everything and re shopvac'd. Then we were able to look for the stopage. We opened the trap on the sink to access into the pipe ( note.. 100 year old house).. we could only get a snake about 6 feet and made no progess so called an emergency plumber ( regular plumber does not do weekends).. he comes and snakes for all he is worth and comes back up with red earth
He says that the line UNDER our basement floor has collapsed and that we are going to either have to jack hammer up the floor and put in new pipe or run the kitchen waste water out another way ( across basement to other cast iron hub that handles waste for other part of the house.
In the mean time we have rigged shall I say a *creative* way to use the kitchen but this will need to be fixed in the next 2-3 days.
ok.. my question (bet you wondered hu?).. all things being equal are we better off to jack hammer up the floor and replace pipe that has been there since 1950 ( when that part of the basment was dug out and a bathroom was added) or should we run the kitchen waste water out through pipe that they are suggesting be run along at basement ceiling heigth and then put in a saniflow system for the basement bathroom???
All suggestions welcome
Maddimome
So I invited my husband down the to the basment to share the joy and we emptied everything out and shopvac'd out the filth and the bleached everything and re shopvac'd. Then we were able to look for the stopage. We opened the trap on the sink to access into the pipe ( note.. 100 year old house).. we could only get a snake about 6 feet and made no progess so called an emergency plumber ( regular plumber does not do weekends).. he comes and snakes for all he is worth and comes back up with red earth
He says that the line UNDER our basement floor has collapsed and that we are going to either have to jack hammer up the floor and put in new pipe or run the kitchen waste water out another way ( across basement to other cast iron hub that handles waste for other part of the house.
In the mean time we have rigged shall I say a *creative* way to use the kitchen but this will need to be fixed in the next 2-3 days.
ok.. my question (bet you wondered hu?).. all things being equal are we better off to jack hammer up the floor and replace pipe that has been there since 1950 ( when that part of the basment was dug out and a bathroom was added) or should we run the kitchen waste water out through pipe that they are suggesting be run along at basement ceiling heigth and then put in a saniflow system for the basement bathroom???
All suggestions welcome
Maddimome