I did it!!! 4 1/2 hours later, and no more floody flood!
WHEW! Seriously, i will forever have mad respect for plumbers - that job is no joke! I know they get paid (a lot) for it, but my goodness, I am one tired puppy.But, 4 and 1/2 hours later, we have success :) There's a lot that went into it, most of which is pretty boring, but hey you might be bored, right? At the very least, you can relate to the new expenditures that were thrown into the mix. Of course, this is on top of this morning's $45 visit. *sigh*
I hold my head up high, though, as I officially did a house-related job all by my lonesome! I hope you're reading this Mrs. Budgetsaresexy ;)
Here's a semi-quick rundown of today's adventures:
- Used hose on "jet" mode to try and unplug tube in cement - failed.
- Tried two more times - backfired and hit J in the face ;( failed.
- Used hacksaw to cut pipe. Not small enough. failed.
- Went to neighbor's to borrow small saw. failed.
- Went to Home Depot - Success!
- bought skinnier hack saw - $11.97
- bought petite coping saw - $6.99
- bought thin skinny saw - $9.99
- bought duct tape - $2.79
- bought 2 flashlights - $6.97
- bought 15 ft' plumbing snake - $9.99
- bought long skinny plastic thingie - $1.98
- TOTAL: Roughly $54.00
- Tried out saw #1. failed.
- Tried out saw #2. barely failed.
- Tried out saw #3. Success!
- Used hose on "jet" mode to try and unplug tube in cement - hit J. in the face, again. failed. again.
- Went outside for 8w98405567th time to dig for outside pipe - SUCCESS!
- Clean pipe of pact-in mud, rocks, and dirt - Success!
- Put pizza in oven - Success!
- Snake pipe a total of 13 times to rid of all stagnant water - Success!
- Remember pizza is in oven - failed.
- Take pizza out of oven, and eat pizza - failed.
- Attach cut-off piece of pipe to pipe attached to A/C with pipe connector - Success!
- Take a break and down 2 bottle of water, while sweating profusely over the 2 cats and watching the temperature rise once again to 84 degrees - Success!
- Turn A/C back on and check all piping and dug tunnels.......SUCCESS!
All in all I spent a total of around $99.00, and it was well worth it. A job like this would have run around $125-$200 when I initially called to make an appointment! Ouchy mama that's a lot of money.
We now have a clean piping system, our A/C is back on full blast, my brain is pact full of knowledge, and I can now enjoy the rest of my day off. Oh, by the way - Did i ever mention i bought that cadillac last night? Post coming tomorrow :)
Labels: do it yourself, home ownership
***Thirsting for more? Click for a randomly generated post!• Digg this • Stumble this • PF Buzz this • Del.icio.us this • Subscribe to feed
posted by J. Money at
4:05 PM
8 Comments:
Glad that you got it all taken care of and for a relatively inexpensive price. Of course, that's not taking what your time is worth in to account. But sometimes, that's just the way it is! And don't you feel somewhat proud of getting it done??? :)
Wow! Good job! Now tell us... are you going to return the two saws that were of no use?
Great work my good man! Now you can bask in your own glory!
couple quick questions:
So the drain pipe from the A/C was the one that was clogged? Where did the outside pipe lead to?
Oh man, yeah i feel GREAT about doing it myself! And in a way, i actually got PAID to do it - since i took a personal. And i'm most definitely keeping those bad boys - i need as many tools as i can get my hands on...we'll call it a present to myself for a job well done :)
Tom - Thx! The pipe from the A/C drips all the condensation into a pipe within the cement of our basement. This pipe goes all the way under our house and out the back patio. I had dug around for it all last night, but never found it. I gave it one last chance today and magically hit it! It was buried under the ground - wtf?
How did you figure out what you needed to do? I have a mech engineering degree and I don't even think I could figure that stuff out. Nice work! Do you do weekend jobs for pay?
I'm glad you had fun! I would have just shelled out the $200 and went about my day :)
That is a crazy adventure. Congrats on getting it done yourself! I would have had no idea where to start.
I had nooooo idea what to do until the A/C guy came. I just pounded him with questions until I understood, and then figured i'd at least give it a shot!
Damn glad i did too :)
Post a Comment
Links to this post:
Create a Link
<< Home