house was originally plumbed with a drain that has an unfortunate right angle in the basement...it plugged up 15 years ago, I thought I'd get warning signs, but nope, it just ran amok last night...looks manageable..
we are generally very dry in our basement (sandy soil around the house) so no sump pump ever needed...
Nathan Chen won his 3rd World title earlier today.
You know that feeling you get when you're in the store and your credit card is declined, and you think Oh, crap! Now I have to fix all my auto pay accounts!? Well, that was me this morning. Luckily, my credit card company knows I would not charge anything to Spotify.
Besides that, the spring blooms are beautiful! The red buds are coming out.
Part of my home automation setup is a pair water detection thingies in my basement. Detection turns off power to my washing machine. I haven't tried to programmatically turn off water to my water heater. It would take replacing the household shutoff valve with something the system could actuate, and I don't want to put that much $$ into it. (Of course, I've now jinxed it...)
I do have a clogged gutter downspout I have to clear. It's about midway in a 2 story drop, just below a small out and back bend. I'm hoping I can pry a small opening there and worm it with coat hanger wire or similar.
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Will the coat hanger push out the clog or will it just punch through the leaves and leave the clog intact? I guess it depends on how clogged the downspout is. I had a fish tape, but it rusted and then the handle broke. I should probably get a new one. Well, not a fish tape but the plumbing version of it.
People may not unlearn them. Posted in another thread but in my new company about a third of the people I've met have asked for and received approval from their managers to move and work remotely on a permanent basis. I have no idea what the corporate campus is going to look like but there won't be very many people in it when things return to normal.
I wish this Chemistry class had been available during my undergrad days:
there was plenty of cussing, but I managed to diagnose the problem myself (miraculous, that) and from the discovery of the water to the fixing of the problem, it took only two hours and $360, plus a $20 tip for my man Tony.
No, it was not an outside drain, it's the main drain that serves the toilets, kitchen sink, etc...it developed a blockage which finally ran amok last night when the water softener discharged, excess water backed out of the bathroom sink onto the floor,but damage is minimal...basically just a carpet we don't much like, and a couple days of running the dehumidifier should dry stuff up... In the panorama of possible home disasters, this proved to be a very minor event...
another reason to have a cocktail hour!
(outside of one or two occasions, my shopping life has been in the local small market and Costco for 57 weeks now, have not set foot in a restaurant or store)...now with two jabs we may venture out a bit, but the numbers here are not good right now, so no adventures are planned whatsoever.