Brand new set of hillside homes out this way. $400K range, walk out
basements. Unfortunately the sewer lines in the streets are above the
walkout basements so they plumbed a whole system of poop pumps to raise
wastewater up out of the basements. That's a disqualifies for me. No
way am I going to deal with some part of that going bad...
On 07/23/2018 03:15 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote:
On 7/23/18 2:33 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Reminds me of another story.
One of our employees came into my office and said: “Chuck the toilet
in the CO has overflowed pretty bad”. I looked at him like he was an
idiot and told him to grab a mop. Was he “too good” to fix the problem.
He came back in about 5 minutes, hangdog look on his face,:”Chuck, I
don’t think you understand how bad this overflow is”. Irritated I
stomped out of the office following him back to the C.O.
Turns out a fly-by-night porta potty outfit was dumping its trucks in
whichever random manhole they could find. They did dump in a sewer
manhole, but in that part of town we were at the end of the line and
the slope of the line was not great. The manhole was maybe 20 feet
from that toilet. And the manhole lid was probably above the toilet
in elevation.
C.O. bathroom was about 6 inches deep of fun. I spent the next 36
hours with hip waders on and shovel in hand. WOW what a mess.
Stories like this make me glad my house is not on a low point. But if it
was or I had a basement, I would for sure install one of those mainline
sewer backflow valves.
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