Our up stair plumbing problem/Carlos Pueblo

 

Our up stair plumbing problem/Carlos Pueblo

There is always an issue of our up stair bath room water disposal problem and we don’t know what to do with it. Amy has closed three faucets under two counters and only let Arthur to use one faucet and keep the wash water in a pan dump to the working toilet or the bath top. He has been very patient for the last five years. Every two days, both sinks are full of clean water and we don’t know what it is and where it is coming from. During the recent broken pipe in the front yard, we are very impressed with the skill of that plumbing company and invite the sales plumber to come up to take a look. He suggests having a snake job for $450.00 and we agree.

He uses a small size of round cable to get into the disposal pipe and attempts to break up the clog. After several try and exhausted two batteries, he offers a second option of power wash with an additional cost. We agree and he schedules to come back on Monday with the machine and a plumbing camera. Both of Amy and I have two sleepless nights to think about this problem. At least we learn that the overflow clean water is the drainage of the air condition unit coil on the attic. Since the snake work has made the clog more compacted, we must dump the water on the pan every two hours period.

The plumber comes back on Monday morning with all the equipment needed. I tell him my thinking of my cutting losses if he fails again on the power wash. I don’t want to go to the third option to break up the wall to replace the pipe. I tell him my theory that his options are all the physical process and I want to try my chemical process to use the caustic soda, NaOH, to break up the calcium precipitate. He offers me a bet and I am not in such mood. He changes the shower head into a connection for a hose to be used. Then, the electricity is applied to pump the pressure to a hose lead tube with a metal head into the trouble pipe. He wants me to take a look at the camera screen. Actually I don’t see very much that I can understand yet I can see the wash. Soon he finishes both pipes and asks me to check all sinks and tops down stair. Our cost is $820 to cover the previous procedure.

I believe that if we don’t listen to some other plumbers’ opinions from the beginning, we find a proper plumber to do the snaking one step at a time. We don’t have to wait for five years of our time to enjoy this beautiful two story house.