SINKING FAST IN POOPY WATER
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Yesterday started with me in fine spirits, planning lots of work to get done. Bob had to poop right out of bed, so we went to my bath room off the bedroom, instead of his. I wonder if we'd made it to the other bathroom, would the day have went differently? Afterward, figured I'd get him in the shower, since my bathroom is where we do that, and he was already half naked. Seemed too much water on the floor. I usually only have 3 towels to sop up, but needed a lot more... what's happening...I? I took the handle from Bob, incase he was doing it.. still seemed to be happening....
Got him dressed, hair blown dry, big breakfast, and felt successful. Bob hates showers but felt good all clean and happy with his breakfast. My plan was to do a load of wash that was in there, then the towels I'd cleaned up with, and I started the first load. As I came thru the tv room to pick up his dishes, heard a bloop noise from the close by bathroom we'd used. What's that? Bob said, "bubble". I said there is not supposed to be a bubble noise come from the bathroom while the washer in the dining room is emptying. Ran and looked, more water on the floor....lots of it. I grabbed more towels and cleaned it up. As I checked back in there in a little while, it was still dry up around the tub and toilet, but it smelled really awful. I looked down the little hall, leading to the bedroom. There was a pond of poopy water coming up from under the water heater, where they cleverly hid the only drain in the house(read inaccessible). When I stepped on the carpet from the bedroom side, it was squishy wet with poop water. I made some frantic calls. I knew I could not run any water in the house or it would come up out of that drain, bringing more of its kind with it.... and "I" had to poop, by now. After sweating bullets for awhile, I remembered the bedside commode, more fun to clean up later. The plumbers were coming, so I had to take a cane and go into the crunchy deep snow and poke the perimeter of the house, till I found the clean-out valve - make sure you REMEMBER exactly where that is, so you don't have to hunt for it. They cleaned out the main drain and water could be run, BUT still 2 bath tubs with poop in them, floor in bath poopy water, bedroom carpet poopy water... and what's this? There is water squirting out between the laminate in the dining room in front of the washer that's in a closet there! More frantic phone calls....
The water damage people came at 8:30 and worked till ...uh... some unGodly hour, like midnight. My entire house is now impassible. The wet laminate in front of the washer (also hall to kitchen) and into the dining room & TV room has been ripped out, leaving uneven flooring, as the rest of those 2 rooms still has the laminate. The poopy carpet has partially been cut out of the bedroom last night. They are coming back today, any minute now, to move furniture in the bedroom and see how much got under it, if it goes too far, I will not have enough leftover carpet to save it. They have a huge air cleaner and dehumidifier set up where the tv used to be. TV moved to block study door, so laminate under it could be ripped.
They will also need to rip some in the study that shares a wall with the washing machine closet wall, as it showed up wet last night, too, but we couldn't do more - and it wasn't poopy, so left it till today. Had to move everything off big shelf in there and take to living room - destroying that room. Things have been moved around in the bedroom, and now more will be, and I'm not sure I can get Bob in there, I am in shock. They found evidence that the poopy water went under the wall into my walk in closet, I finally began to cry. More moving and cutting of carpet. There is not a room in this house that is not stacked up with moved things and impassable.
Send prayers and rubber gloves immediately. Man down.... or woman, I'm no longer sure which one I am.....or if I'm even human.... There are something like 12 air movers in here, sounds like we are under a plane that is running. I found they had one strategically placed to pull air directly over the litter pan and under the wall. I gave them all kinds of plastic to set anything on that had been on poopy carpet, but they moved boxes and sat the poopy ones on top of other boxes. I can not see the light at the end of the tunnel. We can't even leave here and go to a hotel, as I have 3 pets, unvaccinated pets. They said they'd be back Monday or Tuesday to remove the air blowers and dehumidifyers, so we are living like this with no reprieve until when? I don't know how they will fix anything, as it would require more moving furniture to get to the floor and carpet area to replace it, and the house is totally chucked full of things already moved now, leaving me walking sideways no matter where I'm going. I can't see how this will ever end well.
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