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My House is Mad at Me WITH POLL

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I need to figure out this problem diary because I have one.  So I am going to tell you all about it and let you make me feel better then we are going to vote on the official name for the diary which I have now decided will be on Fridays.

So here is my rant

As you may know, my house is for sale.  It is a lovely 100 year old bungalow.  Nice neighborhood, good schools, updated kitchen and baths, original but refinished hardwood throughout.  Very pretty, homey little house.

With a basement.

I am not from an area where basements are common.  Everything in Oklahoma is built on a slab except  the WPA stuff at Fort Sill but I digress.  Sump pumps are a mystery to me.  Well I went downstairs last Saturday night to get a bottle of wine from the basement (we make our own so we have to store it downstairs cause there is ALOT).  I noticed the sump pump was on.   Weird.  January and all.  So about a half hour later I checked again, still running.  So I touched it.  Hot!

So I unplugged it.  My husband came home and we discovered that the mechanism that turns it of was rusted out so we got a new one.  Also found that the hose outside the house was full of ice.  Fine, due for a warm up earlier this week, we unhooked it, all is good.

Except, my sweet husband hooked it back up last night due to all the rain.  This AM I checked it prior to jumping on the shower.  It turned on just a I walked into the basement area where it is located.  The water was trying to pump out, hitting a blockage in the hose and shooting all over the wall around where it leaves the house.  Gallons of it.  All over the basement walls and floor.

It appears an animal had built a nest inside our hose and that was the blockage,  we have a new one now.  The leaky points of the pipe exiting the house are repaired and I have bleached the walls, floor so much that I am lightheaded.  Fan and dehumidifier in that area.

When we put our house on the market our realtor joked that we better watch out.  Your house gets mad when you sell it.  In one month a new water heater and now this.  Can we be done now?

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13 comments

  1. Avilyn

    Hopefully the house won’t stay mad.

    I have no radio buttons even after clearing cookies/cashe from the browser, so I can’t vote in the poll.  But I like “Weekly Ruminations” followed by “Herd Therapy”.

  2. justme

    I’m in the eastern part of the state. All the houses here used to have basements, but they won’t build them anymore, for various reasons. I lived in Norman for a number of years in a house built on a slab—they always claimed that was because the water table was so high, but I think it was because it was a college town and they needed lots of cheap housing.

    Worst. Weather. In. The World. WORST.

    I love basements. I grew up with them, and I don’t care what anyone says, nothing is better than a basement for tornadoes (having hidden in them more than a few times during storms).

    Never, however, have I lived someplace with a sump pump in the basement, although I’ve had friends with them. And my house now had a sump pump for the crawl space, but thanks to lots of good drainage work and all the rain barrels I’ve installed, it really doesn’t matter that it doesn’t work.

    Anyway. No, you’re not done. My bet: the front porch light stops working next. 😛

  3. bill d

    while you’ve actually been in the house?

    Say out loud in/to the house that you are not selling the house and type, write or pantomime out all future real estate conversations that must be done there.

    Worth a shot imo.

  5. slksfca

    For me it’s the bathroom. All three drains (sink, tub and toilet) are misbehaving. Slow to drain, except for the toilet, which clogs up every few weeks. I keep forgetting to call the landlord and have a plumber sent.

    I voted for “Weekly Ruminations” partly because that word is just so fun. (And it fits.)

  6. dakinishir

    You might want to give it something nice, or distract it somehow?

    I like Ruminations. Plain old Ruminations.

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