Being New Year’s Day, no plumber is going to come out without costing you at least an arm and, most likely, a leg. The super good news is that I've got this great group of friends I can count on to help me out. The good news for them, of course, is that my clogged drain was the perfect excuse to purchase a heavy duty drum auger (otherwise known as a plumber's snake or drain cleaner) that will likely have use for any number of our friends.
As for me, I’m apparently going to have to have the main drain of my house snaked every year as I have a big tree in my front yard that likes to entangle its roots around and in the pipe running out to the city sewer line. You’d think just cutting the tree down would help but a) I love the tree and the shade it provides (not too mention being ultra pretty when covered with snow — as seen at left in this pictures taken before I realized the issue in the basement) and b) I've been told that, after the cost of having a tree removed, the roots are going to just keep going for another decade or so anyway. Despite not being the restful and yet productive day I'd had planned for kicking off the new year, I can’t complain. Well, I could, but it would just be petty. I had a problem and a solution was provided. It doesn’t get much better than that.
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