Renaming the Blog

Instead of the Vig Family Blog, I think we need to change the name to “House Woes”. You’ve all heard about the lights and the watery basement. Our next challenge…a stopped up drain. You all know how cold it has been around here this past week. So when the water didn’t go down the drain after my shower yesterday, I was afraid that the pipes had frozen over. Before you experts say anything, I had to discover for myself that that was not the problem.

What I didn’t know was that frozen pipes cause a loss of water flow to the faucet. The indicator is a slow to nonexistent trickle of water to the basin, or tub in our case. Since I was able to have a warm, wonderful shower after a hard workout, I figured our pipes weren’t frozen at all. We most likely had a clogged drain.

I didn’t immediately think it was a clog because it came on all of a sudden. Plus we have one of those fancy hair stoppers in the tub to prevent stoppages. Yet again, God is on my side. See, after the basement water issue, I went out and bought a huge box of baking soda. It just figured that I didn’t make the purchase until yesterday, the day I needed the box for more than de-odorizing the basement (which, by the way, is completely dry now and doesn’t smell like wet carpet at all anymore).

I dumped a cup or two of baking soda into the tub of water and chased it with a cup or so of vinegar. Then we went to bed for the night. The next morning I heard Mark turn on the water in the shower. Shocked, I jumped out of bed to find that all the water drained out of the tub after all. Mark said that it still drained a bit slow, but it was working. I gave it one more treatment and this time chased the vinegar and baking soda down with about 8 cups of boiling water. Problem solved.

Just for good measure, I treated the bathroom sink too. Oh the things we learn when we become grownups and own a home. Some days I wish I were the infant and someone could take care of my every need.

Until the next crisis,
Sharon.