Oopsie...... Poopsie......

This is my dear son-in-law Bryan.... with this head in a hole

he just made in my ceiling ..... trying to find the reason for my 

flooded basement!!!  UGH!!!!!!!!!!!

I have battled a bad smell in my house ever since I 

moved here.  It is a horrible sewer smell  (that is SOOer

not SOWer!) I have tried several things to get rid of it and

none have worked.  It has been VERY frustrating to me 

and so disgusting that I truly have considered selling my house

because of it.  The most recent suggestion to rid the house of the

plague is to get this stuff from Home Depot that will clean the

drains really well and clear out the smell.  So I got some. 

Pulled the washing machine forward to pour some directly down the

drain under the washer.  (which is the worst culprit of the smell)

Then went about my merry way and a few days later, I did a

batch of laundry.  A few hours after that, I went downstairs to work

on a sewing project.... and water was dripping from the ceiling and 

puddled on the floor..... about a 6 ft. puddle!!! Luckily most of the 

water had been sucked up in the wool rug by the door.

I was on the phone at the time with Cortnie.... said "Oh shit,

my floor is flooded!!"  She came running with towels,

her shop vac, her running shoes, and her hubby!

I went up stairs and looked for the source of the leak

and couldn't see anything obvious.... except for the drain 

hose at the back of the washer was not down in the 

drain all the way.... it was up to where I could see the end

of it and kind of tipped at an angle.  I must have pulled it out

when I pulled the washer forward earlier in the week!

Bryan ended up cutting these holes in the ceiling

and at this point we could not find the source of the leak.

Nothing we did... running the washer, flushing the toilets,

running water in the sinks... would duplicate the drip.

After it all dried out, I tried to duplicate it again and 

was able to do so by pulling the drain hose out a little

and letting the washer drain around the hole instead of

into the hole.  UGH!!!!  What a mess!!!

My friend, Steve Metler, came and patched up the holes and

retextured.  It looks better than before, because there

was water damage there when I moved in because someone

else at some time probably did the same thing!

Now I just need to get it painted!!!

Mostly just a big inconvenience because I LOVE to 

sew and I can't sew in my room until I get this all fixed

and my craft room back together.