Ward Plumbing Tuesday, September 22, 2015

8:23 AM 9/23/2015

Zee's Home Repair

Ben Ziogas 217 572 2908

Found on Thumbtack and he wanted to 'snake' the drain when it backed up Su 9/20. I went with Ward Plumbing.

Ward Plumbing and Heating
http://www.wardplumbingheating.com/

They arrived 9am, Tuesday morning. Called from my driveway, and I had just gone into the bathroom. They snaked the drain, but went back to the shop to get a more slender snake. Said that the drain DOES have a trap, and this is clogged. That's why I'm getting the smell and why the water doesn't drain.

Bigger problems! It appeared the washer drain was clear, but it wasn't. Then, the kitchen sink backed up the same drain. The bathroom is OK, but something is clogging washer/kitchen drain. Their 'ace' plumber arrived 1045am. He is sick with bad intestinal flu.

The new eel that they brought wasn't strong enough, so they went to the rental place on MacArthur and Jefferson to get a more powerful one. This worked. They took the caps off of both vertical black pipes, and ran the snake and hose through both of them.

The plumber and helper left at 1pm and I'm waiting for Bill to come back to clean up. I ran a load of wash but I can't run any water because it will leak because No Caps. Just after 2pm I had dialed the number to Ward plumbing, and Bill pulled into the driveway. He had two ingenious covers for the vertical drains. The machine edges were so degraded that I thought it would be impossible to get any form of 'screw cap' to work. However, these caps had kind of expandable edges. You push them on the whole and then there is a butterfly bolt that you turn to screw them to seal. Very good idea.

I had talked to him about getting a 'Fall Tune Up' on the furnace. Not so much that I think there is anything wrong with the system, but more so that I can learn how to use it. I don't know a thing abut the Humidity Controls or even what it's supposed to do. He said that he would set something up in the next few weeks, and it wouldn't run more than $65. I think it's well worth the piece of mind.

(In the mail was a check for $931 which was reimbursement for what I paid on the crown at Westside Dental in late July. With this money I should be able to pay of the Citi card and Penney's).