troubles on the home front.

Nate

Nate

Founding Father
so on sunday afternoon we came home to our drains not emptying.....

i spent the entire next morning with a rented power rooter trying to work my way through a plug, to no avail. $90 out the window (cause i guess i tweaked one of the cables) i got no where! i then made a call into the pros. i called able rooter and had them come out with the heavy artillery to work through the problem. well after about an hour or so of them working on it.... diagnosis: collapsed sewer line!

i have a contractor coming tomorrow to dig up half my lawn, some of my tar driveway, and some of the street. best case senario... $4,500 down the drain (so to speak).... owning a home sucks right now.
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condolences

BTDT last fall, only it wasn't a plugged sewer line, it was a blown water supply from water main out in the street. wan't a problem with drains, it was a flooded basement
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big boys & big toys showed up, tore my front yard and the street to shreds for a day, fixed sheet, piled mud/muck back into the holes, and left. (front yard is still a mess 8 months later)

then after a couple weeks, the Big Effin Bill shows up. bye bye 4.5 large!
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so what's your next mod for the car gonna be????
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that's low....
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next mod is going to be: nothing. for a while!

still planning on buying a winter wheel set up for the car. then im shut off.

 
It could of been worse. If you had a private septic and the leach field goes that's like 6 to 8 grand. If Lewiston is anything like Sanford your paying for water coming in and the waste going out which is in addition to the property taxes
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yah i def pay a quartly water bill... with sewer bill.

contractor just dropped off the equipment that they plan on tearing up my property with.... holy hell. i say they just dig a big hole and slide the house in.

AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
Day late:rolleyes: but...if you can follow the line ,from where it exits from your house,then hire a couple kids with shovels or a buddy who can use a rented bucket loader,and dig until you hit the problem area,once you've found it,replace with new 8 foot section of waste drain pipe.[Materials are cheap]Weekend project 300 $ rental fee/100$ materials/2 guys 400$ in labor.Sounds like you need a second opinion.Good luck:cool:

 
yah.... wish i could. but unfortunetly... some of the repairs need to be done under the city street.... city of lewiston doesn't take lightly to 2 teenagers and a rented machine digging up the streets..
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not to mention i wouldnt know what the hell to do when it came time to re-tar the street. i honestly wish i was all on my lawn. i would even save the money of having them fix the lawn. im capable to spreading loam, and reseeding.

 
Sucks man. A house in Portland I was close to buying had that happen to it's new owners shortly after I passed on it.

Glad I dodged that bullet!

 
A room at Maine Medical for a week will run ya 6K- can't fathom what the doctors will be charging.

 
Wow man, that suck!! happened to my rents. There house had all metal sewer pipes, but they were clay right outside the wall. had to dig up a flower bed and a bit of the driveway. Luckily it broke while we were tearing up the driveway anyway.... I don't feel so bad about my 300 dollar garage door opener now. If it helps, I just found out my driveway is slightly sloped towards the house... repaving is gonna cost 3800
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trying to postpone that one as long as i can.

 
doh doh doh... I would B sooo bitter iof that happened to me...matter of fact I would B in my front yard doing the bitter dance....

I know in MA where I come from they have the Title 5 stuff for septic... made a lot of homewoners lives miserable and a lot of excavaters rich folk...

 
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