Plumbing: Classic or Dud?

Now more seriously, is this kind of thing a problem in your neighborhood or is it just your building in particular that's been cursed?

Will my wife understand if I prostitute myself?

This morning my wife was taking a shower upstairs, getting ready for work, and I was asleep downstairs in our other bedroom. I was awakened by a horrible sound that I am very attuned to, the sound of WATER DRIPPING INSIDE MY ROOM.

Yes, the shower is leaking through my ceiling. Don't know yet whether it's the pipes in or the drain out, but I need to do some diagnostic tests.

Wish me luck, ILX.

Good luck...
Builders moved my washing machine and now it's flashing random error messages at me and I have a horrid suspicion it's leaking at the back over my newly sanded and varnished floor :-O

as of 1 PM I have been unable to duplicate the leak. Tried running the shower/bath/drain in numerous different configurations. It is a disturbing mystery.

ughughughgg

sometime last night, a heap of black/brown gunk and dirty water backed up into our sink drain and onto the floor. i have a guy here looking at it now, but a. and i checked into a hotel last night so we could have a clean bathroom to use -- we were both pretty grossed out and didn't get any sleep. could be a sewer line that's not draining properly? dunno. meanwhile, our building's water supply line cracked a few weeks ago and they had to replace the whole pipe.

plumbers must make so much damn money.

Often a catch basin issue. Are you in a house?

Also, despite any advice to the contrary, things like dental floss, tampons, etc, should never, ever go down the toilet.

Are you in a house?

apartment, ground floor.

catch basin theory is interesting -- it rained hard a few days ago. and i think i saw some small branch/twig pieces among the gunk.

The rotted-out semi-rebuilt mobile home that we're trying to pretend is a house has a septic tank that needs to be pumped. However, none of the people who are living in or next to the building have any money to get it pumped out, so we've had to put up with a large bad-smelling puddle of filth in the backyard for a while.

Yuck. BTW. xposting, don't underestimate the invasiveness of tree roots. Those things can travel a long way from the trunk and clog up pipes through the tiniest of cracks. Then the branch serves as a sort of net to catch all those things that really shouldn't go down the toilet and presto, the line backs up.

There has been a sewer/grease/fat explosion in the basement/laundry room of my building and the smell is noxious enough to stick to you after you leave. As I tried to clean my clothes while not stepping into piles/puddles of waste, I was talking with the overly apologetic toothless bosnian plumber and the conversation went like this:

me: so this is happening because people are pouring grease into the sink to get rid of it?
him: yes, i believe so
me: who does that? who pours grease into their sink to get rid of it?
him: ...greasy people?

lol

haha

plumber otm

I've lost count of the number of times I've tried to convince Mr Veg that I'm not insane for putting excess grease into a sealed container in the trash. I mean, I do it anyway, but WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU THINK IT BELONGS DOWN THE DRAIN

it really really really does not belong down the drain
i wish someone would tell my neighbors that -- word has it they do A LOT of frying

ugh

this is easily the 3rd or 4th time in the last 8-9 years (i've been here forever) they have had to flush out their pipes for the same reason. get 1 clue, pls?

at least i had a good larf with the plumber
now he needs to clean up the sewage blossom he left so i don't have to disinfect my slippers again