Whew! What a Monday Morning!

Happy Monday!

Haha… it started off with a bang for us. I was getting my shower and the drain started to back up. It was at my ankles when I got out. So, I put on
gloves, got out a plastic garbage bag and the modified hanger for getting hair out of the drain, had Terry unscrew the drain cover and … nothing. There was nothing there to clean!

So, Terry tried plunging it. Nope. Nothing. But the plunging had forced stuff up into the bathtub, so we now knew that the clog must be pretty far down (probably on the other side of the P-trap). More plunging gets us nowhere. We now have standing water with buildup from the pipes laying in it. Yuck!

Next try, Liquid Plumber gel clog remover. Supposed to work in 15 minutes. Hah! 🙂 Terry went into the other bathroom to take a shower, but had fits there, as well, because we had added a little sprayer head with hose to be able to give Phoebe a bath on Saturday and the fitting wasn’t tight, so it was leaking, but he couldn’t get it apart easily so he had to go into the basement for a pipe wrench. How ironic is that? Not fitting tightly enough to keep it from leaking, but not fitting loosely enough for him to unscrew it with his bare hands. Needless to say, Terry was quite grumpy by this point.

Then, we’re both back in our bathroom drying our hair and finishing getting ready when all of a sudden we hear this “gloop” sound and all the drains magically clear (and the vaccuum sucked the water out of the toilet *laugh*). So, I guess that drain opener gel is some pretty good stuff. Then I was able to clean the yuckiness out of the shower and bathtub and we’re back to normal. What a way to kick off the week, though! Whew!