This evening, while I'm doing laundry, and happily backing up my work laptop so I can turn it in tomorrow (last day, YAY!) and I hear the distinctive sound of large amounts of water hitting a hard surface like a floor. After a couple of short seconds of processing.... uh-oh. I head into the sun porch/laundry room to find watter spilling out around the edge of where the drain hose fits into the drain. Recently I made (what I thought was) a minor plumbing change in this area. I decided that the
Cat Genie didn't have enough space to push it's poopy water down the drain as it was stuffed into the same tube as the washer drain. I decided to get some plumbing parts and set up a Y setup where both of them would have adequate space to push their water down the drain. It worked great for the Cat Genie, but this is the first load of laundry I've done since then. There is a little piece of plastic inside the Y that diverts water down the drain, rather than up the other side of the Y. Apparently this little piece of plastic causes enough turbulence that when a high volume of water is coming down the drain, it backs up. So I tried sealing the rest of the opening with my hands, no good. I tried the other side. No good. Next best bet? Open the window and direct the stream of water out into the yard. The plant just outside the window is especially clean for all of the soapy water it just got doused with. Let's hope it doesn't die for being so clean. :^)
ANYWAY.. water water EVERYWHERE. I look at the stack of boxes on the other side of the room and discover that they're sitting in water. What's in the boxes on the bottom? plastic bags? Rocks? Other things that don't mind being wet? Of course not. Books. What is on top of those boxes? More books. lots and lots and lots of books. Of course the only ones at risk are the ones on the bottom, but entirely lacking wizarding or levitation skills, I'm left with moving all of those books somewhere else so I can get the boxes off of the floor and upside down so they can dry. Am I going to bother opening those boxes? nah. Damage already done. the best I can do now is let them dry out and hope.
Back to the washer side of the room. What was under this fountain? Cat food, and kitty litter. Two things that just LOVE extra moisture.
Anyway. The mess is cleaned up. The room is drying out, and I'm washing the towels that got thrown on the floor to soak up this mess.
oy. Guess I'm doing the rest of the laundry while I'm working tomorrow morning.
Cheers,
Duane
