Cant Keep Quiet!

Actually, that smell was sewage. And I hated it.

When I came downstairs this morning I noticed a rank smell. At first I thought it might be the dirty laundry I was bringing down the stairs with me. It wasn’t.

It was sewage. The lone from the house to the sewer was blocked and the sewage was backing up through the toilet in the powder room.

It took forever for the plumper to come out this afternoon. Then I had the fun task of explaining to him why we had a line to the sewer, two sump pumps and a septic tank. Until a bedroom and bathroom were added to the house about 20 years ago, there was no septic tank and only one sump pump. The house was designed so that half of the house went directly to the sewer and the other half of the house went to a sump pump that forced the waste/water on to the sewer line.

When the house was remodeled another sump pump was added because the drain that helped take care of the ground water that would come up from the artesian wells under the house was damaged. A couple of years later the septic tank had to be added because the idiots who did the plumping for the new bathroom didn’t set it up correctly and it was burning out the original sump pump.

Long story, short, the problem today was with the plumping leading to the sewer. I had to find both access pipes for the sewer line for the plumper. I ended up using my bare feet since the access covers had been overgrown by grass. He couldn’t find them. Once they were found he snaked the sewer line and now it’s working correctly.

Of course, the smell is still everywhere and I ruined a pair of sandals that I really liked. Oh, and I have a massive headache that I’ve had since yesterday.

All in all, it’s been a wonderful day. Not!