Greetings, my fellow port swillers!
Ol’ Robbo awoke this morning to the voice of a gel wafting up the stairs, “Uh, Daaaaa-aaad, there’s a puddle on the kitchen ceiling and water dripping down!!!”
@*&#$ upstairs pipes at it again. Oh, well, I thought. It could be worse.
Why yes, yes it could.
Arriving home from Mass this afternoon, I was greeted by the sound of a gel’s voice wafting up from the basement, “DAAAAAAA-aaaaad!! The downstairs potty plugged up and the overflow is coming through the basement ceiling into the study!!!”
@#$&^@*$#@#*^&!! gels flushing things I’ve told them not to again.
They had virtually every bowl and pot from the port-swiller kitchen down there trying to contain the mini-Niagra, but I’m afraid they were only partially successful. Can anyone recommend a good rug shampoo?
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February 19, 2012 at 9:25 pm
captainned
The best rug shampoo is tiled or vinyl floors.
At least in NoVa you expect all that mess to leave your house and head through pipes that lead “elsewhere”. Just wait until the reason for the clog is the sewage treatment facility that lives in your back yard and that the clog will be a reason to soon write several 5 digit checks.
Of course if you are also on septic, you know and fear this expense.
February 19, 2012 at 10:15 pm
rbj
Bissel steam cleaner. Also handy to have with an incontinent dog.
February 20, 2012 at 1:58 pm
the gripping hand
3 gels with a bucket of soapy water and scrub-brushes, followed by Dad with a bull-whip and a wet-vac.