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Fri, 26 Jan 2007

Kitchen sink is blocked

A few days ago, we discovered that the kitchen sink drain is blocked. Not only that, but it's blocked below the point where the drain for the upstairs neighbors' kitchen sink meets ours. So when they use their sink (for example, when they clean pots from the spaghetti with clam sauce), it backflows into our sink and then our sink overflows. Ewwww!

An "excavation" guy showed up at 7:45 in the morning to unblock the sink. While he was working, I learned that garbage disposals, while convenient, are the devil's tool and were probably invented by an evil plumber looking for a steady flow of business. I had no idea.

Anyhow, he couldn't excavate it enough and it looks like we're going to have to have the section of pipe replaced. Craziness!

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Posted by Kyle on Fri Jan 26 16:26:43 2007
Our garbage disposal isn't working right now, ironically.  I don't even use it very much.  But I have heard of many problems with them.  Plus, it has always struck me that ours is plumbed strangely.  When the dishwasher is draining, the sink with the disposal in it will bubble and gurgle and back up, but only SOMEtimes.  This happened even when the disposal was working.  So, little bits of "digested" food would reappear in the sink of their own accord, anytime they felt like it.  Of course, we use the dishwasher almost not at all, so this is rare.  But it happens!  They're hopefully fixing our disposal today, but I can imagine how annoying that would be!


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