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Homeowner fun! (Warning: Gross)

Both of our toilets are backing up into the showers (we have 2 bathrooms adjacent to one another). It is seriously disgusting and I would vomit except I know that anything that goes into the toilet is going to end up in the showers.

I left work early and have a plumber on the way. I just had coffee though and seriously have to pee and am contemplating how I can go in the yard without the neighbors noticing. 

What's your worst home maintenance story?

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Re: Homeowner fun! (Warning: Gross)

  • Oh this sounds awful. I've got nothing on that.

    Hope the plumber fixes it quickly!
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  • Yeah, you have me beat too. I hope it's a quick and inexpensive fix!
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    Plumber is here right now. It's going to be around $300, which is not the most fun way to spend money but not horrible. After he leaves I'm going to scrub the tubs with bleach and light candles in the bathrooms.  >:P

    Here's a mojito for listening to my nasty poo story:

    EDIT: Never mind, pic won't work, at least not for me. One of those days I guess. 


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  • edited October 2014
    Ugh! That sucks. I once had to have my house replumbed, but they couldn't run it through the attic, so it was $13k to run the pipes on the outside of the house. What a freaking nightmare.
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  • That sucks. :( I'm glad to hear it's a pretty cheap fix, though!

    We rent, so not a homeowners' problem, but we recently found out we have a crapload of mold in our apartment. We - and the kitties - have to be out of the apartment for about 48 hours while they clean and treat it, and we have to throw out our bed frame and 2-year-old Tempur-Pedic mattress. :( This is costing us several hundred dollars and our landlord several thousand. So I guess what I'm saying is it could be worse!

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  • Yuck! I'm sorry!

    We had the pipes back up and everything from the garbage disposal blew out through all of the pipes and all of the basement, but it wasn't poop so you win.
  • Oh no! I'm glad the plumber could fix it relatively easily. 

    We built our house, so no major snafus yet, but we did lose a bunch of trees in a storm a month after we closed. One narrowly missed the house. That's nothing compared to poop shower though!
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  • Yea, I can't beat two poop showers, even with my 99 year old house.
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  • Ewww. That sounds awful. :(

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  • Similar....
    I pooped in our upstairs toilet and didn't realize that I clogged it. Went to work. H got home earlier than me to find the ceiling in the kitchen/living room (below the bathroom) had caved in.

    We called a restoration company and had it all resolved, but it was sooooooo embarrassing.

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  • That sounds terrrrrible!! I don't think I have anything close to that.
    when we lost power for 14 days we had no generator and our house is has a well and septic system so NOTHING works when the power is out. We ended up spending 3 days trapped in the house bc of wires and trees and had to use the yellow leavr it mellow brown flush it down motto. The only problem was we had to flush by pouring water into the toilet until the toilet flushed on its own.

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  • Wow @iloveredvino. That is horrifying. Glad you got it resolved though! I had to remind myself that these people see all sorts of nasty stuff. 

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  • We live in a new house--so I can't top you ladies.  BUT, your poop stories did make me smile and I needed that today.  Glad everything is getting resolved fairly easily!  

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  • Oh ick!  I really hope the plumber is able to easily fix it.  
    Sounds like you need to get a cart full of bleach.  Just be sure to let the cashier know you're cleaning up sewer, not blood from a murder. 

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  • Groooooooss. Glad the plumber wasn't too expensive! Lots of bleach and candles and you'll be good as new (:

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  • Yuck! I'm sorry!

    We had the pipes back up and everything from the garbage disposal blew out through all of the pipes and all of the basement, but it wasn't poop so you win.
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