Anybody got any good house plumbing horror stories?

[Pipe Line]

So this isn't really a horror story but the wife is at home right now. Slow leak that showed up in the living room ceiling a couple days ago. Plumber came this morning. Family friend. There is now a hole in the living room ceiling and has been traced to the guest bathroom toilet, which has a slow leak in it that has now turned into quite the solid mess. Apparently there's a little mold in the ceiling that has been cut out......we're supposed to host Thanksgiving for her side of the family and my dad tomorrow lol perfect. Can't wait to go home for lunch and see this scene!

 

[22*43*51]

Crongrats to your wife on the secs.

 

[Daddy]

Bought my house from a younger couple who were DIYing. There's multiple things that have gone terribly wrong. They did a terrible job. But this is the only plumbing story I have is from about April of last year when my girlfriend was 8 months pregnant. I went to a little last minute golf trip with my friends who were helping me celebrate a last hoorah kind of deal. We get smoked, of course. 10pm rolls around and I get a frantic phone call from the GF who is bawling her eyes out. She was taking a bath in the guest bathroom which happens to be over the garage and heard a big crash while she was in the tub. She goes out to the garage to find a giant hole in the ceiling and water everywhere. Now she'd been taking a lot of baths because pregnant and apparently a ton of water had been building up and the drywall finally gave in. Giant hole in the ceiling, wet drywall/plaster fucking everywhere, had to hire a plumber to come out and fix everything. It was a fuckin disaster.

 

[Jim14510]

One of the kids bathtub shower upstairs has a slow leak somewhere. Leaks into the ceiling. Had a plumber look at it and couldn't figure it out without cutting into the wall. We just keep putting it off and making them shower in a different bathroom.

 

[Pipe Line]

One of the kids bathtub shower upstairs has a slow leak somewhere. Leaks into the ceiling. Had a plumber look at it and couldn't figure it out without cutting into the wall. We just keep putting it off and making them shower in a different bathroom.

If this wasn't in the living room that's the route I was gonna take. My wife is very much a clean freak so that wasn't gonna fly.

 

[Fitzjess21]

Had to deal with several, thankfully I learned plumbing skills and have fixed them all. The only one I couldn't was the mainline leaking underground. Found it where the mainline came in under my basement. That one sucked because it cost 2500 bucks to fix, which is actually pretty cheap.

 

[Cash68847]

So this isn't really a horror story but the wife is at home right now. Slow leak that showed up in the living room ceiling a couple days ago. Plumber came this morning. Family friend. There is now a hole in the living room ceiling and has been traced to the guest bathroom toilet, which has a slow leak in it that has now turned into quite the solid mess. Apparently there's a little mold in the ceiling that has been cut out......we're supposed to host Thanksgiving for her side of the family and my dad tomorrow lol perfect. Can't wait to go home for lunch and see this scene!

The smartest thing you can do is build a ranch style house and in the basement do a suspended ceiling on part of the basement below where all your pipes run, so when a leak does occur it’s an easy fix. At some point everyone is going to have a leak. Also don’t freak out about mold. Every house has it somewhere.

On my house my jet tub faucet keeps dripping but the inner guts are so fucked up I can’t replace them and the geniuses who built it tiled the whole front of the tub so there is no access. At some point I’m going to have to take the tile out and make something that is looks nice and that is removable.

 

[huskermack]

On my house my jet tub faucet keeps dripping but the inner guts are so fucked up I can’t replace them and the geniuses who built it tiled the whole front of the tub so there is no access. At some point I’m going to have to take the tile out and make something that is looks nice and that is removable.

We just replaced a 10-year-old jacuzzi jetted-tub that was built into a tiled corner surround.
It required retiling the entire bathroom. Ugh.
Put a nice soaker tub in its place diagonally.

 

[Pipe Line]

Bought my house from a younger couple who were DIYing. There's multiple things that have gone terribly wrong. They did a terrible job. But this is the only plumbing story I have is from about April of last year when my girlfriend was 8 months pregnant. I went to a little last minute golf trip with my friends who were helping me celebrate a last hoorah kind of deal. We get smoked, of course. 10pm rolls around and I get a frantic phone call from the GF who is bawling her eyes out. She was taking a bath in the guest bathroom which happens to be over the garage and heard a big crash while she was in the tub. She goes out to the garage to find a giant hole in the ceiling and water everywhere. Now she'd been taking a lot of baths because pregnant and apparently a ton of water had been building up and the drywall finally gave in. Giant hole in the ceiling, wet drywall/plaster fucking everywhere, had to hire a plumber to come out and fix everything. It was a fuckin disaster.

GOOD.GOD. that is tough. My wife's emotional ass would have been out the door and into a hotel or at her parent's house until it's fixed had that happened to her.

 

[Pipe Line]

The smartest thing you can do is build a ranch style house and in the basement do a suspended ceiling on part of the basement below where all your pipes run, so when a leak does occur it’s an easy fix. At some point everyone is going to have a leak. Also don’t freak out about mold. Every house has it somewhere.

On my house my jet tub faucet keeps dripping but the inner guts are so fucked up I can’t replace them and the geniuses who built it tiled the whole front of the tub so there is no access. At some point I’m going to have to take the tile out and make something that is looks nice and that is removable.

Next house will for sure be a build. Hoping for something in Cass Countyish or further Southern Nebraska. Have some friends who are contractors that I'll do my best to work closely with. I know a little but not enough to be dangerous.

 

[Daddy]

GOOD.GOD. that is tough. My wife's emotional ass would have been out the door and into a hotel or at her parent's house until it's fixed had that happened to her.

Yea she had her aunt and uncle over at our house in about 15 mins. They live pretty close and he's pretty handy so he pretended to mess around with it and she was fine after that. Either she was fine or she wasn't fine and I just assumed she was fine and left it at that because I was so drunk. I'm guessing it was the latter.

 

[Pipe Line]

Yea she had her aunt and uncle over at our house in about 15 mins. They live pretty close and he's pretty handy so he pretended to mess around with it and she was fine after that. Either she was fine or she wasn't fine and I just assumed she was fine and left it at that because I was so drunk. I'm guessing it was the latter.

So this isn't really related but somewhat close. So my daughter still sleeps on my wife's chest at night, about to turn 7 months. Think it's a mother daughter safety thing, whatever. So, sometimes on the weekends I'll go do something with the guys after she gets put to sleep for the night. And I swear every single time I'm with the guys, not 15 minutes after we start hanging out, I get a text with something like "I don't feel good" or "she isn't sleeping right" or the last one was "I'm really nauseous". I always have the same reaction as you kinda did, "everything will be fine" lol

 

[Daddy]

So this isn't really related but somewhat close. So my daughter still sleeps on my wife's chest at night, about to turn 7 months. Think it's a mother daughter safety thing, whatever. So, sometimes on the weekends I'll go do something with the guys after she gets put to sleep for the night. And I swear every single time I'm with the guys, not 15 minutes after we start hanging out, I get a text with something like "I don't feel good" or "she isn't sleeping right" or the last one was "I'm really nauseous". I always have the same reaction as you kinda did, "everything will be fine" lol

It is wild to me that your daughter sleeps on her chest. But yea, same shit at our house. Drives me fuckin nuts. As soon as I go anywhere, she comes up with an imaginary problem in an attempt to make me feel guilty for not being at home. It's childish.

 

[Adolph Coors]

So this isn't really related but somewhat close. So my daughter still sleeps on my wife's chest at night, about to turn 7 months. Think it's a mother daughter safety thing, whatever. So, sometimes on the weekends I'll go do something with the guys after she gets put to sleep for the night. And I swear every single time I'm with the guys, not 15 minutes after we start hanging out, I get a text with something like "I don't feel good" or "she isn't sleeping right" or the last one was "I'm really nauseous". I always have the same reaction as you kinda did, "everything will be fine" lol

plz tell me this is a troll

 

[Pipe Line]

It is wild to me that your daughter sleeps on her chest. But yea, same shit at our house. Drives me fuckin nuts. As soon as I go anywhere, she comes up with an imaginary problem in an attempt to make me feel guilty for not being at home. It's childish.

Told her like 2 or 3 months in that she needed to be in the bassinet at the bare minimum or we would be toast trying to get her to sleep in a crib. Her response was "when she can roll over by herself". Yeah that was accomplished a good 2 months ago. She gave me a golden one the other week for needing to help my dad with some farm work on a Sunday....."I'm just tired of feeling bad for asking you to be a dad" ooooooooooookay then, that's garbage

 

[God is a Husker]

Worst at home: sump pump broke the night we got back from our honeymoon during the middle of a rainstorm. We got like 5 inches of rain in 1 night and I had to scoop out the building up water with a cup and pour it into a 5 gal bucket. Wife would take the bucket out and throw it way out in the lawn. We woke up at 400 and didn’t get back to our house till around 2300 after traveling all day… we were up for 5 hours making sure the basement didn’t flood. We were exhausted and soaking wet. Welcome to married bliss!




Worst for hotels: had 4 pipes burst under the sinks and flood the rooms. Thankfully no guests were in the rooms but we were down 4 rooms for 2 weeks because I had to take out all the carpet and open up the wall to fix the plumbing. Total cost (with lost revenue included) ~$10,000

 

[Pipe Line]

plz tell me this is a troll

Nope

 

[Baron Winnebago]

I'll pour some out for you mother fuckers who are going to have 12 year olds sharing your bed with you and the Mrs.

 

[Pipe Line]

Worst at home: sump pump broke the night we got back from our honeymoon during the middle of a rainstorm. We got like 5 inches of rain in 1 night and I had to scoop out the building up water with a cup and pour it into a 5 gal bucket. Wife would take the bucket out and throw it way out in the lawn. We woke up at 400 and didn’t get back to our house till around 2300 after traveling all day… we were up for 5 hours making sure the basement didn’t flood. We were exhausted and soaking wet. Welcome to married bliss!




Worst for hotels: had 4 pipes burst under the sinks and flood the rooms. Thankfully no guests were in the rooms but we were down 4 rooms for 2 weeks because I had to take out all the carpet and open up the wall to fix the plumbing. Total cost (with lost revenue included) ~$10,000

Do you run hotels for work?

 

[Pipe Line]

I'll pour some out for you mother fuckers who are going to have 12 year olds sharing your bed with you and the Mrs.

I give in because she's still a baby. Aint fuckin happenin at that age