Big Kahuna
Administrator
- Location
- Tuscaloosa, AL
Why dont you add a door bell buzzer in your garage so you can hear it?
the trivial complaints thread
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OCD Solutions
Original, Clean and Dependable Solutions
- Location
- Rentz, GA
I suggested that yesterday and my wife got a funny look in her eye. She already likes to randomly "communicate" via her car horn so I don't know if I really want to give her a second option. She can near put me through the roof when I'm in my groove. 
Maybe I can find a soft buzzer or figure a way to tone one down to a tolerable level.
Maybe I can find a soft buzzer or figure a way to tone one down to a tolerable level.
Whatever you do don't give her an intercom system . Worst thing everI suggested that yesterday and my wife got a funny look in her eye. She already likes to randomly "communicate" via her car horn so I don't know if I really want to give her a second option. She can near put me through the roof when I'm in my groove.
Maybe I can find a soft buzzer or figure a way to tone one down to a tolerable level.
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Big Kahuna
Administrator
- Location
- Tuscaloosa, AL
Dont tell her about it.I suggested that yesterday and my wife got a funny look in her eye. She already likes to randomly "communicate" via her car horn so I don't know if I really want to give her a second option. She can near put me through the roof when I'm in my groove.
Maybe I can find a soft buzzer or figure a way to tone one down to a tolerable level.
SXIPro
JM781 Big Bore
- Location
- Here on the 'X' mostly
I suggested that yesterday and my wife got a funny look in her eye. She already likes to randomly "communicate" via her car horn so I don't know if I really want to give her a second option. She can near put me through the roof when I'm in my groove.
Maybe I can find a soft buzzer or figure a way to tone one down to a tolerable level.
Strobe light>buzzer
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Brotastic
- Location
- Arlington TX
Jetmaniac is the only person I know who has luck with sending me things via USPS. I hate using them. The percentage of sketchy dumb crap to happen is so much higher with USPS vs using UPS or Fedex... to me anyway. Obviously things change regionally.
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Brotastic
- Location
- Arlington TX
My trivial complaint isn't that trivial. You never realize how important it is for the water/ poop/ pee etc to exit your residence until it doesn't.
Saturday night we discover that we have... a blockage... and it's not just one toilet. I do research and all the symptoms point to a blocked sewer line.
I then discover there are no clean-outs on our house. (typically two capped 4" pipes near each other right outside your house.)
So its Sunday, wife is like
After a few hours of poking at the problem with a sharp stick, wife freaking out, I concede to call a plumber. After hours rates... yay.
Dude pulls up a toilet to run the auger/ snake thing. He runs two 'cages' of cable into the pipe and can't find anything. He said it's about 200' of cable.
I pace off the distance from that bathroom to the street where the sewer is.
Its 75'
So I pay the man a ridiculous amount of $, he leaves, toilets still not working...
My wife...... is sitting on the couch.
She won't move. She's like "What do we do now? I feel like I can't do anything because we can't run the water..."
She wants to check into a hotel... i'm like...
I called the city today. They're gonna check their end, make sure the blockage isn't in the sewer itself.
So this story.... much like the Blunder Jet story... has yet to reach a conclusion.
But for now, I can tell you i've never in my whole life wanted to see this in my own home more than I do right now.
Saturday night we discover that we have... a blockage... and it's not just one toilet. I do research and all the symptoms point to a blocked sewer line.
I then discover there are no clean-outs on our house. (typically two capped 4" pipes near each other right outside your house.)
So its Sunday, wife is like
After a few hours of poking at the problem with a sharp stick, wife freaking out, I concede to call a plumber. After hours rates... yay.
Dude pulls up a toilet to run the auger/ snake thing. He runs two 'cages' of cable into the pipe and can't find anything. He said it's about 200' of cable.
I pace off the distance from that bathroom to the street where the sewer is.
Its 75'
So I pay the man a ridiculous amount of $, he leaves, toilets still not working...
My wife...... is sitting on the couch.
She won't move. She's like "What do we do now? I feel like I can't do anything because we can't run the water..."
She wants to check into a hotel... i'm like...
I called the city today. They're gonna check their end, make sure the blockage isn't in the sewer itself.
So this story.... much like the Blunder Jet story... has yet to reach a conclusion.
But for now, I can tell you i've never in my whole life wanted to see this in my own home more than I do right now.
- Location
- new jersey
U got a rookie swap - I'd b outta ur house under n hour
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- Location
- Hudsonville, MI
I went to the carwash with my truck because I had a coupon for $5 off their $12 wash. I brought exactly $7.... turns out they raised their prices to $13 after the coupons were printed so I didn't have enough cash.
SXIPro
JM781 Big Bore
- Location
- Here on the 'X' mostly
My trivial complaint isn't that trivial. You never realize how important it is for the water/ poop/ pee etc to exit your residence until it doesn't.
Saturday night we discover that we have... a blockage... and it's not just one toilet. I do research and all the symptoms point to a blocked sewer line.
I then discover there are no clean-outs on our house. (typically two capped 4" pipes near each other right outside your house.)
So its Sunday, wife is like
After a few hours of poking at the problem with a sharp stick, wife freaking out, I concede to call a plumber. After hours rates... yay.
Dude pulls up a toilet to run the auger/ snake thing. He runs two 'cages' of cable into the pipe and can't find anything. He said it's about 200' of cable.
I pace off the distance from that bathroom to the street where the sewer is.
Its 75'
So I pay the man a ridiculous amount of $, he leaves, toilets still not working...
My wife...... is sitting on the couch.
She won't move. She's like "What do we do now? I feel like I can't do anything because we can't run the water..."
She wants to check into a hotel... i'm like...
I called the city today. They're gonna check their end, make sure the blockage isn't in the sewer itself.
So this story.... much like the Blunder Jet story... has yet to reach a conclusion.
But for now, I can tell you i've never in my whole life wanted to see this in my own home more than I do right now.
Not sure this will make you feel better, but:
We have a tight tank septic system because we live on a lake, so with our system nothing leaches into the ground. I have a 1000 gallon tank for 'solids' and a 4400 gallon tank for 'grey water'.
Anyhow, about a dozen years ago we are having a birthday party/sleepover for my daughter. She was turning 9 or so and had a half dozen other little princesses spending the night. As they are all getting ready to hit the sack my wife tells me the toilet isn't flushing. So I break out the plunger, no success, try a snake...nuthin. No problem, we'll just have them use the upstairs bathroom....nope...same deal.
So I am thinking "dammit, the holding tank must be full" but then I realize that the alarm that signals when the tank hits 3/4 full never went off. I try the alarm manually...nope, no high water reading. Uggh. Well, the cleanout is in the basement, so downstairs I go.
I grab a wrench and start unscrewing the cap and ...GUSH. I am hit square in the chest by the most god awful smelling liquid that has ever graced the earth. It's like a freakin firehose is blasting me, but it sure ain't just water that is now pouring into my basement after bouncing off of me. I am frantically trying to screw the cap back on, and this is just making the primordial ooze spew everywhere...it's like a 360 degree rooster tail of human waste. Most excellent.
Within seconds the basement door opens with "OMG, what is that smell????" Apparently the wife has never been home when the tight tank has been pumped, because the smell was more than apparent to anyone within 1/4 mile of my house. Thank God we have terrific neighbors, and one of their daughter's was attending my daughter's party, so we just relocated the sleep-over a couple doors down to their place.
The rest of the weekend was epic. Dragging everything out of that side of the basement and hitting it all with Clorox, and then scrubbing down every square inch of the basement as well. The whole time I was cleaning stuff up, a line from Shawshank Redemption kept running through my head. "Andy crawled to freedom through five hundred yards of poop-smelling foulness I can't even imagine- or maybe I just don't want to"
Fro Diesel
creative control
- Location
- Kzoo
Lol rooster tail of shonet. Thst takes the cake!^^^
- Location
- Stouffville, Ontario
- Location
- new jersey
Never pull a c/o cap if u think ur blocked
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*if your dwv system is above said c/o
[*if your dwv system is above said c/o
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Brotastic
- Location
- Arlington TX
My trivial complaint isn't that trivial. You never realize how important it is for the water/ poop/ pee etc to exit your residence until it doesn't.
Saturday night we discover that we have... a blockage... and it's not just one toilet. I do research and all the symptoms point to a blocked sewer line.
I then discover there are no clean-outs on our house. (typically two capped 4" pipes near each other right outside your house.)
So its Sunday, wife is like
After a few hours of poking at the problem with a sharp stick, wife freaking out, I concede to call a plumber. After hours rates... yay.
Dude pulls up a toilet to run the auger/ snake thing. He runs two 'cages' of cable into the pipe and can't find anything. He said it's about 200' of cable.
I pace off the distance from that bathroom to the street where the sewer is.
Its 75'
So I pay the man a ridiculous amount of $, he leaves, toilets still not working...
My wife...... is sitting on the couch.
She won't move. She's like "What do we do now? I feel like I can't do anything because we can't run the water..."
She wants to check into a hotel... i'm like...
I called the city today. They're gonna check their end, make sure the blockage isn't in the sewer itself.
So this story.... much like the Blunder Jet story... has yet to reach a conclusion.
But for now, I can tell you i've never in my whole life wanted to see this in my own home more than I do right now.
So what happened? Or are we going to be blunderjetted?
SXIPro
JM781 Big Bore
- Location
- Here on the 'X' mostly
Never pull a c/o cap if u think ur blocked
*if your dwv system is above said c/o
That, sir, is the moral of the story for damn sure.
- Location
- Hudsonville, MI
My 6 month old daughter's new thing to do is wake up at 5:45 am with her diaper overflowing with poop. Nothing quite like walking into a nursery that smells like crap at that time in the morning.
When my youngest was that age...she used to like to crap in her diaper, pull it off and use the detritus to finger paint the walls with it. Talk about a freakin' awesome sight. It was like walking into Amityville horror story when I opened her door.
When it was too clumpy to paint with she would use it like play dough
Dirtybird
Ex*ta*ski
- Location
- St. Clair, MI
Enough talking. Terrible
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Brotastic
- Location
- Arlington TX
It would seem that's the thing to do.
But no. Plumber is coming back out today to try and locate clean outs.
@Pablo
