09 June 2009

Drainage

I stayed at home today. Had a scary, super annoying, kitchen drainage problem. The water would go down in one sink, then when I turned on the disposal, it would pop out in the other sink. I cleaned out the junk, and tried again. It helped a little, then the same thing happened. So I kept at it for a while, hoping the problem would fix itself (Note to self: This kind of things never does...). I finally gave up and went to my neighbor, my amazing, helpful, kind neighbor, for help. She walked in with bleach and some power cleaner, because she didn't have any draining solution liquid stuff. However she didn't get to use any of that. She took at look at my sinks and asked for an old towel. She stuffed the towel on the one end where water would came out, and asked me to turn on the disposal. The water was running, her hands pressed down the towel securely, the water was spinning, and I was clueless about what was happening. A minute or so after, we shut off the disposal, the water had stopped popping and pumping, and the drainage problem was no more! She's like, a miracle worker.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

wow that is pretty cool!
So she put the towel over the side that did not have the disposal and just held the overflowing water from coming up while the disposal ran for a few minutes and it worked?
Hmmm I'll have to try that next time it happens here. Thanks to you and your neighbor for the tip! :-)

cakelicious said...

Yeah. That was it. Could you believe it? My neighbor totally saved the day, again!