so much for my plans for this morning
Feb. 9th, 2008 09:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rmdSUMP PUMP EMERGENCY!
that motor-purring noise i'd been hearing up the plumbing chase was not, as i'd thought, one or another of the oil burners doing their thing. nono! it was the sump pump trying to push water and failing. it's been doing that for a while, now.
i swapped in the cold-swap pump, but it has similar behavior -- it worked for a bit and then shut off because it was wedged. clearly, something's up with the pvc line that feeds into the main sewer drain. i even tried removing the one-way valve in case that was fucking up, but that wasn't it.
now where the bloody hell did i put my plumbing snake?
*stompstompstomp*
that motor-purring noise i'd been hearing up the plumbing chase was not, as i'd thought, one or another of the oil burners doing their thing. nono! it was the sump pump trying to push water and failing. it's been doing that for a while, now.
i swapped in the cold-swap pump, but it has similar behavior -- it worked for a bit and then shut off because it was wedged. clearly, something's up with the pvc line that feeds into the main sewer drain. i even tried removing the one-way valve in case that was fucking up, but that wasn't it.
now where the bloody hell did i put my plumbing snake?
*stompstompstomp*
