When we left the house on Sunday June 1st, Rob went up stairs to flush the toilet and we heard the worst sound a home owner can hear. It's the sound of a lot of water dripping in several places. ARgh. There was water pouring into the basement and water dripping from the celing in the spare bedroom. At that point we were too tired to start digging around to find the problem. We did a survey of the damage, placed buckets strategicaly and went home. Durring that survey we also realized there is a shit pipe that is located exactly where we wanted our 36 inch vanity to go. Rats rats rats.


Last night, we get to the house with this list that Rob sent me:

1.) Cut out the "bad ceiling" that got water damage last night-inspect.
2.) cut out some drywall in bathroom, and locate poop pipe for closet/vanity
clearance.
3.) smooch each other
4.) Yank upstairs toilet out and dump a significant amount of water directly
down the poop pipe and check for drainage/leakage
5.) smooch some more

Isn't that a great to do list?

We pulled the upstairs toilet out and plopped it in the bathtub. The floor around the toilet was in horrible shape, it looked like the toilet was fixin' to fall through the floor.

Then, we cut out the celing in the spare bedroom, and it looked like it had been replaced, obviously this had happened before.... once we got our heads in the celing we poured water down the hole in the floor that used to house the upstairs toilet. About 3 gallons of water went down and then we found the problem. The pipe filled up. We pured water down the hole in the first floor bathroom that used to be the toilet and the water went down just fine so we have a general idea of where the clog is. It's 3 gallons down from the upstairs toilet and before the downstaurs toilet.

When we cut out the wall in the bathroon, we realized the pip is definately in the way and now we are going to have a 24 inch vanity, not a 36 inch. Oh well, life goes on and that just means the linnen closet will be that much bigger.

As Rob was standing in the spare bedroom looking up at the poppie pipe, a light bulb went off over his head. He looked at the pip that vents up to the roof and said "I'll be there is no cover on that pipe, I saw a leaf in the sewer .... it must be clogged from the top" There you go! Problem solved, he's so damn smart. I only hope it's as easy as snake-ing the pipe.