Sewer line

This isn't it, but you get the idea.

Well, the new sewer line is almost done. It's all hooked up and seems to be working. I should probably go down and look in the basement and see if we're getting any sewage backing up down there.

I was nervous about it. One company would do the job for $18,000, another one would do it for $10,000. It's my mother's house and it was her decision. She went with the guy who would do it for $3,300. Why the huge price difference? We found the guy's mug shot online.

"Oh, it was just a misdemeanor," my mother said. "Looks like a domestic violence thing."

She wasn't concerned.

[He was innocent. Violated a restraining order after his wife ran away with the children. The (female) judge ruled in his favor, found that his wife was an unfit parent and gave him sole custody.]

The guy's estimate was so much lower because he thought he could do it in two days. It's been six days so far and will be seven or eight by the time it's all finished. He's got to be losing money on this.

You know how they estimate movie budgets? They estimate how much it will cost per day of filming multiplied by how many days they think it will take to film. Kind of the same process here.

Well, it will be a learning experience for him. I hope it won't be for us, too.

Some helpful advice

The sewer kept backing up. We kept paying guys to come in and unclog it. Cost three hundred dollars each time.

The house and therefore the concrete pipes were over ninety years old. The pipes had started to deteriorate. The surface of the concrete was rough and they told us toilet paper was snagging on it and causing the clog. It was happening every three months or so.

I finally got the idea watching an RV commercial to buy rapidly dissolving toilet paper made for use in boats and Winnebagos. I ordered it on Amazon. Turned out that everyone else had the same idea. The comments were all from people with sewer line problems.

This time, it went for SIX months without clogging.