My Old House

Issues and Events involving our Home in Independence, Missouri
My Old House on Winner Road
2/1/2005

No answers on drain

Filed under: Plumbing — Admin @ 7:26 am

Well, it’s been a week and I really didn’t get any firm recommendation about what one should be… or could be doing long-term to prolong the lifespan of their basement drain.

Somebody did suggest running hot water through it. But of course, my wife does a couple of loads of hot laundry water per week, so I’m sure that’s going down the drain.

I will have to check Home Depot or Lowe’s the next time I’m over there.

There may not be some “official recommendation” … but perhaps there’s a product I can try on my own. I’m thinking that biological-based stuff I used at our old house on the bathtub drain might be something to try.

Meanwhile, my work is so busy that I haven’t had much time for the house. Thankfully, it’s winter. But I’m starting to see a whole lot of work around here for the coming Spring!

1/24/2005

Basement Drain Maintenance

Filed under: Plumbing — Admin @ 10:00 am

Well, thing have settled down from the holidays.

It’s been cold-as-heck out there and I’ve been doing very little for the house.

However, today it’s suppossed to get up to 55 degrees (yippee!), so I started doing a few minor things.

One thing that I did this morning was take a look at our basement drain. Gee, I should have gotten a photo, but why gross everybody out?

We’ve had a small, slowly growing problem with this drain backing up as the washing machine drains into it. It’ s not critical, but it’s something to pay attention to.

The grate was a rusty thing… with many of its holes clogged somewhat with filthy fibers and there was some black gunk underneath it. …



8/21/2004

Plumbing Problems already?

Filed under: Plumbing — Admin @ 10:34 am

Greetings! Making my first blog post taken from my “house diary”. This is the diary I decided to keep to record info about problems we encounter in our “new” old home, at 9725 E. Winner Road in Independence, Missouri. I thought I’d record the problems we encounter, the help we get, the solutions we find, and just about anything else “house-related”.

We moved into this house on Friday evening, July 31st, 2004. I’m sort of “back-dating” a bunch of posts to this blog today. I took some notes that I had made over the past two weeks and decided to transfer them here. (For future notes, of course, my hope is to …



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