Deena
01-10-2008, 09:22 AM
OK... So we have had issues with out house since the day we bought it... ok they did not start the day we bought it, otherwise we would have had some recourse ya know. Basically the people we bought it from were not exactly as forthcoming as they should have been in disclosing defects, and a lot of them were not found in the home inspection, DH took care of all this, and was not here when they did it, so i dunno if the guy just sucked or if these truely were things that could have been missed.
We have a completely finished basement, drywall, brand new carpet (when we moved in anyway), the whole nine yards, that was a selling point of the house. We were told the basement stays dry, and one would assume that if they spent the money to put brand new carpet in, that it does. Not so, it has leaked more times than I can count everytime we get a heavy rain, ESPECIALLY in the room we use as Sophia's bedroom :(
Then in the last few months we have started having this new problem every now and again when we run the washer, it backs up... (you know the drain on the basement floor floods, water is clear, but it sometimes smells and floods the basement). Well the first time this happened we suctioned out the drain as best we could as well, and pieces of drywall came out!! UGH! You have got to be kidding me! So we have tried everything we can think of to fix the problem, asked a few plumber friends, even poured sulfuric acid down the drain, because it will eat away at roots and such...
It did not seem to work at first, then after a few days it seemed better finally! Then all of a sudden the night before last, it backs up again, and is eating away at the paint on the floor:break_everything: apparently the sulfuric acid did not even wash down the drain all the way from weeks earlier! Then last night it happens AGAIN!!! Usually we at least get a couple days in between back ups...
Then this morning I wake up to DH telling me not to flush the toilet because it's backing up when you do! He is going to call around to figure out the best way to fix it, that we have not already tried, or possibly call a plumber that we do not have the money for :(
We have a completely finished basement, drywall, brand new carpet (when we moved in anyway), the whole nine yards, that was a selling point of the house. We were told the basement stays dry, and one would assume that if they spent the money to put brand new carpet in, that it does. Not so, it has leaked more times than I can count everytime we get a heavy rain, ESPECIALLY in the room we use as Sophia's bedroom :(
Then in the last few months we have started having this new problem every now and again when we run the washer, it backs up... (you know the drain on the basement floor floods, water is clear, but it sometimes smells and floods the basement). Well the first time this happened we suctioned out the drain as best we could as well, and pieces of drywall came out!! UGH! You have got to be kidding me! So we have tried everything we can think of to fix the problem, asked a few plumber friends, even poured sulfuric acid down the drain, because it will eat away at roots and such...
It did not seem to work at first, then after a few days it seemed better finally! Then all of a sudden the night before last, it backs up again, and is eating away at the paint on the floor:break_everything: apparently the sulfuric acid did not even wash down the drain all the way from weeks earlier! Then last night it happens AGAIN!!! Usually we at least get a couple days in between back ups...
Then this morning I wake up to DH telling me not to flush the toilet because it's backing up when you do! He is going to call around to figure out the best way to fix it, that we have not already tried, or possibly call a plumber that we do not have the money for :(