Floating in it

The last few days/weeks Sarah and I have noticed a bit of water collecting in the basement. This isn't really anything abnormal since our landlord prepped us on this before we moved in a couple years ago (the availability of palettes to set things on down there also kinda' gave it away). Tonight the water got higher -- high enough that I could barely walk around down there with my rather hefty Danner hiking boots on. After a bit of thought-based troubleshooting the suds creeping in from two of three drains in the basement was a big clue that something somewhere down the line was stopped up -- that and the fact that a healthy amount of, I'll call it, "water" came burbling up after Sarah flushed the toilet. Yeah.

I spent nearly an hour down there with two five gallon buckets scooping out as much "water, etc." onto the sidewalk and managed to lower the "water" level to a mere half inch or less. Although I know this stuff was coming from anything that went down our drains I had just done a load of laundry and the soap from that kept everything smelling like roses. It really wasn't gross but certainly had the potential to be. Anyway, we had to fill our landlord in as well as our upstairs neighbor to avoid flushing and letting water drain from the shower until a plumber comes by tomorrow.

Good thing about those palettes, though, because without them this webpage's web server would've been sunk.

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