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taxladyWhen I got home from the biz networking breakfast, I was met by an unpleasant, familiar smell in the hallway leading to my basement door. Crikey. The drain had backed up again. This time it wasn't a big flood and the water had already gone away. But, the brand new carpet got wet. We don't even have our stuff back out of storage from the last sewer backup episode. I called the insurance company to put it on record. With a five hundred dollar deductible, they probably wouldn't have to pay anything this time. It is considered a new incident.
I was going to call the same water extraction company that we used last time. But, I had an appointment with a client that I had to cancel first. Thank goodness I did it in that order. My client said, "Why not rent one of those big wet vacuums?" Well, guess what? We have a Shop Vac. It isn't nearly as big as the water extraction company's, but there isn't a whole lot of water this time. My client offered to lend me his big, powerful Shop Vac. I said I would try with ours, and if that didn't seem good enough, we would love to borrow his. Our Shop Vac seems to have done the trick. That means that it has more than paid for itself twice over, today.
In a short while I am heading to Lebeau Vitres to get a new windshield. There is an approximately eight inch crack. I will have to leave the car there for a minimum of three hours. On the way home, I am going to go to Reno Depot and see if they have a backup prevention valve.
I also have to make an appointment to get the timing belt changed on my car. It's a Volvo, and if the timing belt breaks, it will probably blow the engine. I don't know when the previous owner had it done. Best guess is somewhere around 112,000 km, 'cause that's how often it is supposed to be done. On my previous car, it had been written on something in the engine compartment. The car is at 215k km now, so I gotta get this done soon.
At least I have a cheap oil change scheduled for Friday morning. Volvo Canada sent me a discount post card. I have to use that at a regular Volvo dealership. I asked them how much it would cost to have the timing belt changed and was told about $500. That's twice as much as my regular (specializes in Swedish cars) garage said they will charge me.
I was going to call the same water extraction company that we used last time. But, I had an appointment with a client that I had to cancel first. Thank goodness I did it in that order. My client said, "Why not rent one of those big wet vacuums?" Well, guess what? We have a Shop Vac. It isn't nearly as big as the water extraction company's, but there isn't a whole lot of water this time. My client offered to lend me his big, powerful Shop Vac. I said I would try with ours, and if that didn't seem good enough, we would love to borrow his. Our Shop Vac seems to have done the trick. That means that it has more than paid for itself twice over, today.
In a short while I am heading to Lebeau Vitres to get a new windshield. There is an approximately eight inch crack. I will have to leave the car there for a minimum of three hours. On the way home, I am going to go to Reno Depot and see if they have a backup prevention valve.
I also have to make an appointment to get the timing belt changed on my car. It's a Volvo, and if the timing belt breaks, it will probably blow the engine. I don't know when the previous owner had it done. Best guess is somewhere around 112,000 km, 'cause that's how often it is supposed to be done. On my previous car, it had been written on something in the engine compartment. The car is at 215k km now, so I gotta get this done soon.
At least I have a cheap oil change scheduled for Friday morning. Volvo Canada sent me a discount post card. I have to use that at a regular Volvo dealership. I asked them how much it would cost to have the timing belt changed and was told about $500. That's twice as much as my regular (specializes in Swedish cars) garage said they will charge me.
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Date: 2007-05-15 05:05 pm (UTC)That sucks.
We have a Shop Vac.
That sucks, too!
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Date: 2007-05-15 05:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-15 08:59 pm (UTC)Really, you must. Should you call the municipality where you live. I mean why is this happening?
Hope it all works out...and never happens again!!
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Date: 2007-05-15 10:46 pm (UTC)I got the "Back-Flow Preventer". It was less than $9, but it's not the right size. At least when I take it back, I know what it is I need to know. The plumber had estimated a couple of hundred dollars to have one put in. Then, when pressed, estimated that a valve that we could put in would cost about $40.
I'm pretty sure it's happening because some of my neighbours are stupid. Here's an aerial view of my condo association. It's town houses. My house is the red rectangle. The purple line goes around all the buildings in the condo association. I don't know where the sewer lines run. When the sewer backed up last time, the neighbour to left of me had the same backup. When the plumber rootered it, it fixed the neighbour's problem too. The plumber said someone had thrown something inappropriate down a toilet, but there is no way to know who did it.
I'm definitely bringing this up with the condo association.
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