Plumbers

The plumbers are here today to find my leaks.  Not to fix them.  That's the next plumbing appointment.  Today they're here to figure out how many there are and to locate them.  I'm finding out two things.  One, I'm not very patient, waiting to hear the bad news, and the longer they're here the more anxious I get.  And two, I should have thought more about drinking all that coffee this morning.  I didn't consider that my water would be off for the duration of this process, and my teeth are beginning to float.

So far what I know is that I have three sewer line leaks.  Those alone are going to run me about $5000.00 to repair, and will involve losing about 4 tiles out of the master bath floor for one of them.  The other two they can go through the floor under carpeting.  Luckily, no damage to my wood floors is planned so far.  

Right now they're working on the water lines.  The guys who did my plumbing checks said I have both water and sewer line leaks, so I imagine they'll find more leaks to fix.   Can you say, sucky inspection?  Oh.  I've said that before, haven't I?

The picture today is of the wandering jew I'm growing.  This is the plant that I started when I picked up two ragged pieces of it off the floor of Lowe's and put them in dirt when I got home.  As you can see it's an easy plant to grow.  This one is getting out of hand though.  I think I'll probably take off these long runners and pot them in another pot.  Maybe hang them outside to grow.  

OMG.  NO water line leaks in the house!!!!  Apparently I had slow seeps in two of my toilets that caused the meter to register like water line leaks.  The plumbers replaced the washers in the toilet cutoffs and there are now no more leak indications in the house.  They did say that somewhere in my sprinkler system it's leaking a bit, but I can get sprinkler system people to come and find that sometime.  When the sprinkler system is shut off, the house shows no leaks at all now.

So they're gone now and after all that, it's still going to cost me roughly $5000.00 to fix the sewer leaks and it's going to be disruptive in my house.  But it's not worse than that and it could have been.  I'll just add replacing those four bathroom tiles to the home repairs that need to be done to repair the foundation-caused cracks.  I have tiles left from having that floor put in a year ago.  I'll just have to match the grout. 

And along the way today I learned how and where to shut off the water to my house should I ever need to, and how and where to shut off the water to my sprinkler system.  And I got leaking toilet washers replaced for free.  Or anyway, thrown in with the fee for locating the leaks. So not too bad of a day, all told.

I'm getting kind of used to spending thousands of dollars for work on this house every month now.   Maybe I should just continue on after I get the crack-etc work done and tackle a project each month.  Like new windows. And new blinds for the windows.  And sprinkler system repair. I'm sure I can find other projects too.

Anyway, that's it for today.  I'll let you know how the actual plumbing repairs go.