Sunday, March 3, 2019

Wow!! Hot Water . . . What a Concept!!

This has been quite the month!!  Life here at the ocean has been full of fun and frustration!!  Always with a renovation, I know, but these past two weeks have brought the ultimate joy of finally having hot water!!

We were having such a difficult time figuring out how to do the venting for the plumbing in the bathroom that we decided to splurge and buy 3-4 hours of real live plumbers!!  Well, those 3-4 hours turned into 6-1/2 hours with two plumbers doing their thing!!  YIKES!!

It was wonderful though!!  First, we now have hot water!!  We're in heaven!!


Plus we are all plumbed for the kitchen sink, where we now have the hot water and plumbed for the washer and dryer and the utility sink in the laundry room.


And we have a toilet in the SCARY bathroom ~


But alas, after 2 flushes it stopped working!!  Now the plumbers had told us there was standing water in the pipe leading to the new toilet but they didn't say or know why.  I think they may have known but just didn't want to tell us!!

So we spent $145.00 to have the toilet snaked and nothing changed.

Because  . . .

we had MAJOR septic tank issues.  The young man that snaked the toilet went out and looked at the septic tank and pulled out the pump and broke off a piece of PVC and said there was no electricity to the pump!!

ELECTRICITY???  A septic tank has an electric pump that needs to have electricity flowing to it??  Whaaattt?? Well no wonder the septic tank had major problems.  There has been nothing to pump the literal crap out of the septic tank for as long as I have lived here (almost 22 months) and probably even longer!!

Oh, my!!  So, that cute young man, his name is Tommy, said he could fix the whole system the next day (yesterday).  And dang, he actually came out, did the work and now the toilet flushes.  In fact I know that from personal experience!!  :-))

This is Tommy working on the septic tank!!  Man, he must have a nose of steel to work around that smell all day!!
 





 This is the old pump!


And this is the new used pump!!


Needless to say we are totally broke and will just have to work on projects for awhile with stuff we already have around the house.

The plumbers come again on March 21st to finish up the bathroom plumbing.  At that point we will have a vanity with sink - hot and cold water!!  Yay!!  And the beginnings of the tub/shower!!  Before the plumbers come back out we have to level the floor joists in the bathroom, lay down a new plywood sub-floor and get the tub in place.

Until next time, thanks for sharing this fun journey with us!!


3 comments:

  1. Yeah, I think homes on septic systems should come with a manual for anyone who has never been on a septic system before! It is a whole 'nother ball game.
    Glad you got to the root of the problem, and your worries are flushed away! So thrilled for you to have hot water--and a functioning toilet! What more could you want?!? (Okay, so there is a list, but this is a good start.)

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  2. So great to see your improvements! Before you know it, everything will be just how you want it! You guys have made so many improvements. We are still in the process of finalizing our construction loan. Boy, what a loooooong processes! They told us 30 days! LOL! LOL! LOL! Now, they want more money - go figure!

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  3. That note was from me (Pam). Don't know why it showed "unknown". I love your toilet by the way! Where did you get it?

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