Comments on: Pipe Dreams

By: Scoops

Scoops — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 17:36:24 +0000

In reply to Juliet. Juliet! Oh no! That sounds like the worst! I have friends who live in the Detroit area who have problems with sewage and their basement too, except there basement is less than 20 years old. I'm so sorry for you. Hopefully now that it's fixed you can rest well not having to worry about your basement becoming a toilet every time it rains. We will for sure take care of the old plumbing when we do the basement.

By: Scoops

Scoops — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 17:25:24 +0000

In reply to Vanessa. Oh no, Vanessa! Ouch, that is some plumbing bill. Mold just makes me want to puke. Back when I was in college I lived in a crappy apartment that wasn't well taken care of. Unbeknownst to me there was mold growing behind the walls and in the ceiling. I was sick with sinus infections and migraines the entire year, and I couldn't figure out why. I almost had surgery on my sinuses. The week we moved out, part of the ceiling came down and there was black mold everywhere. Within two weeks of moving out my health improved dramatically. I do think some mold can affect people in a bad way, but I'm sure it depends on what kind of mold it is and how much there is of it. I wasn't gonna mess around with it in the house after having such issues with it in my past, plus my little dude has asthma.

By: Scoops

Scoops — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 17:20:37 +0000

In reply to Jessica. Jessica! That totally sucks! I am so sorry for you, I hope you can get that tile fixed up ASAP! Good luck!

By: Juliet

Juliet — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 17:58:53 +0000

Oh no!!!
I have had so much stuff be problematic with sewer lines in my 1941 cape cod. I’d finally had to in two different sections, had to replace the whole line from my house out to my street. I was living large for about two years. Was totally cavalier about the dungeon (aka basement) of my house. (Until the flood of August in Detroit. Just.don’t.ask My basement was unspeakably awful pit of hell from the storm and sewage). It’s clean now. ;-) But you won’t regret (unless it’s done badly) updating the plumbing system in your remodel to come. It is so worth it.

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Sat, 20 Sep 2014 06:03:42 +0000

Big bummer Scoops. Personally I don’t approach mold as an awful thing. I know it’s not a good thing but I really don’t think it’s the killer the press makes it out to be, it is part of nature after all. It’s one of the many things that helps organic material decompose. Nonetheless, the plumbing does have to be fixed and that just stinks (speaking as one who just sent her favorite plumber $2,310.00).

By: Daniel | Manhattan Nest

Daniel | Manhattan Nest — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 23:51:55 +0000

Oh man, I’m sorry!! If it makes you feel any better (I’m sure it won’t, haha), we had to replace SO much plumbing when we first got to the house. Our apartment had been sub-letted for 2 weeks, so we HAD to be here, and we had a hugely cracked waste line, no working toilets, no hot water…none of which had been detected during multiple inspections, and we closed like two months after we were supposed to and the plumbing was turned on 3 hours before we moved in, in a house that was vacant for almost 2 years. Craziness! We’ve since replaced various sections of the enormous cast iron waste line, but really the whole thing needs to be chopped out and replaced at some point…it’s literally being held together with duct tape. Luckily the basement is unfinished, since it’s sprung a few mega-gross leaks that would have caused some serious mayhem. Ugh.

But we have nice doors and floors and moldings, so it’s worth it. Right??? :)

By: Jessica

Jessica — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 16:30:57 +0000

Ugh I hear that loud and clear. My 1892 house is a nightmare when it comes to maintenance. We just found a massive problem with our drainage tile around the perimeter of the house. I live in Victoria B.C. which is located in a temperate rainforest so broken tiles means mega mould. Ugh.