Our Plumbing Issues Up-close

Do you remember our Plumbing Issues Well they got worse. It got to the point that I wasn’t able to use the washer at all. Then I wasn’t able to use the Dishwasher without flooding the basement. I was able to use the Kitchen sink as long as I didn’t let much water down at a time, then guess what… yup you guessed it, NO more Kitchen sink either. So I was doing dishes in buckets and having to make sure that no one used the water in the sink. We broke down and called a Plumber out. I thought that all we needed to do is “snake” the pipe….NOPE!! He let me know that the pipe was broken, a $1600 -$2600 quote to fix it and a charge of $135.00 for finding it and I still had no use of my utilities. Let me tell you, we (all of us) have come quit accustomed to these “Modern Miracles”. I just told myself the PIONEERS had it worse than this, so we can do this!!

Chad’s brother Chris (we have BIG Chris and LITTLE Chris when he’s here) is a plumber and he came to our rescue!!!!....
THANK YOU CHRIS!!
I called him and asked him what we should do and if this was for real. He assured me that it was and that his company would have charged us $3600. Well Chris came out at the end of the week, from Colorado, and FIXED it for us!!!... Our Neighbors and Steve all pitched in and helped with what they could and we have our utilities working!!.. WHAT A RELEIFE!! We seriously could not have done it without him and a special thanks to Abe our neighbor (you’ll see why in the pictures).

So we had everyone come over that night after the school carnival for homemade chili (a small thank you from us) and then headed over to the church carnival. We were so excited because Ty (Chris and Roxy’s 2 yr old son) got to go with us. We all had a blast and then went and checked out the haunted house where Frankenstein SCARED me to DEATH!! (I even hit my head on the steering wheel) while ALL the boys laughed at me A LOT!!... it was a great end to a very long ordeal.

The dust and mud was EVERYWHERE!!