April 2009

So I picked Brian up at the Airport on April 2 and the minuite I saw his face the stress of him being gone washed away. I knew I was stressed but you never really know until the stress leaves as to how bad it really was.

I knew it was bad and I now realize how bitchy I was while he was gone. To everyone I apologize for any rude comments or bad behavior. My stress is not an excuse but only a reason for my actions during the past several months.

So I picked him up at 9 am (it was a sunday) and at 1AM monday Daisy woke me up. I smelled something wierd and heard a strange noise. I slipped on the first pair of shoes I could find and made my way to the basement. I took 2 steps into the laundry room and my feet were in water! I went to the sump hole to find the sump pump running but not pumpimg water. I umplugged it and lifted it out of the hole and it completely fell apart. I tried to get it back together but had no luck.

I was so happy that I didn't have to deal with this myself but I was still wishing that we could have at least had the first 24 hours of him being home to be event free but then again that just isn't our luck is it?

So we talked about what we were going to do and we decided that at 1 AM there really isn't that much you can do so we picked up what could be ruined and went back to bed.

At 7 AM we made our way into town and knocked on the doors at Home Hardware and asked them to sell us what we needed.

By the time we got back to the house there was ankle deep water over the entire floor. We proceded to hook up the new pump and a couple hours later the water was mostly gone and we started throwing out what we decided to no longer keep.

By 2 pm we had pretty much everything under control.

A few days later the floor drain in the laundry room was backing up slightly so I called the plumber that I had in earlier that week to come over. He found that there was no problem with the drain but he did find that there is water that stays in the main drain line and that shouldn't happen. Well then we talked and wondered if the flooding of the basement mixed with the melting snow might have an effect on the leachfield for the septic.

So here is the other side of the story. We were told that the septic was pumped out right before the house was closed up after the former owner died so we thought that it was in one place but the drawing showed it in another place. The place where the drawing has it is in the same place as a tree so logic rules out that location. we thought it was another place because it looks like someone dug there within the last year but htat doesn't make sense if you compair how far the auger went when the plumber was over.

I saw one of the neighbors and asked him if he might know but no luck. We saw another neighbor and asked him and he said no but told us the name of the former owners son. So I took a gamble and called him. He told us where he thought it was so we borrowed a metal detector from a friend and had a little adventure, but of course no luck.

A couple of days later we got a call from the man's sister and she was nice enough to come over but she wasn't much help. She only confirmed that we were lied to and that the septic wasn't pumped out when they said it was. Also there were things she told us that she should have put on the discosure before the sale.

Now that I know everything she told us I am upset. I wouldn't do this to someone I would hope. But it is fixable.

Now that we know where the septic is it turns out that it is where all the water from the sump pump runs. Everything is working better now but I still want to dig up the septic to get it pumped.


Oh well,
WELCOME HOME Brian