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Post by rarnold18 on Oct 7, 2010 21:03:25 GMT -5
So for the past week or so our hall bathroom, used by the kids and guest, has been having some toilet problems...mainly, it wasn't flushing effectivly. We used a snake, with no success, and got some quotes from plumbers, which were way to expensive for our empty pockets, and tonight we took the toilet up off the floor and took it apart. Started fishing around with a wire hook and figured out that someone, most likely our two and a half year old Abigail, flushed something unflushable... my husband was not so happy, and still isn't because we dug out quite a bit of poo ...but we did find what was unflushable... a cowboy boot. AWESOME! Only in my life does a kid manage to flush a cowboy boot down the toilet! Katt, I'll trade you Koda for Abigail! Monster ferret for monster 2 year old, sounds like an even trade!!! ;D
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Post by katt on Oct 7, 2010 21:33:08 GMT -5
Hahahaha Oh my! How on earth did she manage that? I mean how does a cowboy boot even GO down the toilet drain? While that does sound like a fair trade, I don't think Abigail would be too happy sleeping in a cage all day while I am at class. The beauty of ferrets is that they sleep 18 hours a day. Lol Not to mention with opposable thumbs I don't know how long the cage would hold her anyways...
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Post by katt on Oct 7, 2010 21:33:54 GMT -5
Hahahaha Oh my! How on earth did she manage that? I mean how does a cowboy boot even GO down the toilet drain? While that does sound like a fair trade, I don't think Abigail would be too happy sleeping in a cage all day while I am at class. The beauty of ferrets is that they sleep 18 hours a day. Lol Not to mention with opposable thumbs I don't know how long the cage would hold her anyways...
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Post by rarnold18 on Oct 7, 2010 22:51:36 GMT -5
Luckily, it wasn't a full sized cowboy boot, thankgoodness or we would of had a really stinky mess! It's a toy one, that is about 4 inches long and about 1.5-2 inches wide...just small enought to let the liquids by but big enough to get stuck and not let the poo go down.... man was it a mess!!! I'll telly you, the cage sounds very tempting right now....I wonder if she'd fit in a FN142???
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Post by katt on Oct 8, 2010 3:45:37 GMT -5
Luckily, it wasn't a full sized cowboy boot, thankgoodness or we would of had a really stinky mess! It's a toy one, that is about 4 inches long and about 1.5-2 inches wide...just small enought to let the liquids by but big enough to get stuck and not let the poo go down.... man was it a mess!!! I'll telly you, the cage sounds very tempting right now....I wonder if she'd fit in a FN142??? Hmmm...if not could you just get the add on for a FN143 and cut a hole in the floor to make it taller? You know...Koda's OLD cage might work just right! It is really tall and the shelves are removable. A Bigger base than a FN so it would be perfect for a 2 year old. The doors could be locked closed with a simple combination lock too...
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Post by katt on Oct 9, 2010 3:15:33 GMT -5
You are apparently not the only one having toilet issues... For a while now our toilet has been running if you don't push the handle back up after flushing. Well, the last few days the chain fell off the flapper a few times and Shane kindly fixed it for us. I thought it was fixed, and my roommate texted me to inform me that it was broken again. On my way home from work I stopped at Home Depot and got a new flapper and a new toilet handle. Shane came over and set about fixing it...and when he reached into the toilet tank, the floating bobber thing snapped off of the stick. Well naturally it is now 30 minutes from Home Depot Closing. We tried to Gorrilla glue it, failed, and the stick had to be held up to keep the toilet from overflowing. So with 15 minutes to HD closing, we found some fishing wire, lassoed it around the bobber-stick, and ran it across the bathroom to tie it to the faucet to keep the stick up and prevent an overflowing toilet while we were gone. Of course once we got there we could not find a replacement bobber on a stick. It turns out that you have to replace this entire tubing column...so we get that for about $12...at the checkout my card declines and the poor sales clerk who is there (it was probably like 9:01 at this point so Closing time) was frustrated. Finally get home with the parts and Shane gets back to work while I frantically try to catch up on lost study time (test on Mon). A few minutes later he needs a monkey wrench and, proud that I own one I hand it over. He comes back again...he needs a bigger monkey wrench. He can't take out the old column without a bigger wrench, which I didn't have. At this point my bladder is feeling rather uncomfortable from the massive amounts of tea I had drank (drunk?) earlier. I call this place I saw an add on a van driving by me on the road the other day - Around the Clock Plumbing - to get an answering machine. So much for around the clock. Google search, call more plumbers, multiple answering machines...finally a person answers! He tells me that it will be $165 for him to come out!!!! FORGET THAT!!!! All I need is a wrench! (Of course no one I know will answer their phones). He then proceeds to tell me that if all I need is a wrench, it is a heck of a time to be calling around for one... Really? I told him my toilet broke a few minutes ago thank you and got off the phone... Well, I now have no toilet until I get to work tomorrow. Shane is going to come by with tools and fix it for me while I am at work. I HATE toilets with a passion to begin with - they are always malfunctioning, this just confirms my hatred. Naturally, these things only happen right before a test... Though to be fair, I do have tests pretty often! Hope you feel better now that you are not the only one!
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Post by bluecoyote on Oct 10, 2010 2:34:42 GMT -5
o.O ya know.... we've been having the same problem for two years now... no pipe snake has helped. use too much paper and the floor gets soaked.... the kids however have learned the signs..... lol when they see the water going UP instead of down they will dive for the shut off valve and then scream for me to come fix it! this is an old used house and we havent taken the toiled off yet - because we're afraid we wont be able to re-anchor it... they're rusted. i say this toiled was trouble before the kids were old enough to start flushing junk...... the guy who lived here before us said he'd replaced the bathroom floor.... but in spite of that there was still some OBVIOUS water damage - in short, i think my kids are innocent...... no telling what HIS kids have flushed down the toilet though! this man had three boys of varying ages. ...however there was this one surprise.... yep... thats my oldest boy, when he was only a year old. you CANT turn your back for a minute, i swear!! BUT this is the main reason why i lock the spare bathroom when the fert is loose.... i'm scared she might jump into the toilet too! (ETA - YES THE TOILET WAS CLEAN! no one was using that bathroom since it was just me, my husband and the baby who was still in diapers... still... thought i'd disclaimer it lol - and yes he got scrubbed anyway after i finished laughing my butt off)
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Post by bluemoose on Oct 10, 2010 2:38:27 GMT -5
Lmao that's adorable
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Post by rarnold18 on Oct 10, 2010 14:02:00 GMT -5
He's a cutie! Husband's been to tired to put the toilet back down on the floor...luckily we have two bathrooms. I haven't felt up to it either went to the Dr's on Thursday night and found out Ihave a pinched nerve in my neck and carpeltunnel and ear infections....awesome...the meds are tearing me up!
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Post by bluecoyote on Oct 11, 2010 0:50:24 GMT -5
sorry to hear that at least if the toilet isnt connected no one can flush more toys lol hope you feel better soon!
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Post by rarnold18 on Oct 11, 2010 22:15:50 GMT -5
I swear Abigail is going to drive me to drink!!! This afternoon while dealing with "Satan", the little boy I babysit, I realized that she had dissapeared... I go looking for her and find her on my bed, and my room smelled "spicey" no good....Dh had accidently left a brand new bottle of Season Salt on one of the night stands and she found it and decided to "season" the bed, nightstands, and the floor... ugh! I'm too lazy to change the sheets so I took out the vaccume and vaccumed the bed, nightstands and floor.... oh yeah....it was awesome!
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Post by katt on Oct 12, 2010 3:44:27 GMT -5
Oh man! Gotta love kids! My little sister was a hands-in-diaper kid. She always had her hands in her diaper. It was disgusting. Needless to say...she made messes...disgusting ones. I remember one morning in particular, I was supposed to go get her up (being the oldest, I pretty much helped raise my siblings lmao). I go in her room and she is standing in her crib screaming to be taken out...and EVERYTHING was COVERED in poop. Like ALL OVER!!!! The crib, her face, the rest of her, her blankets, the wall...it was like a scene from a horror film! My parents tried to get me to help clean it up and I was like screw that! It's YOUR baby! (of course, not in those words...lol). It. Was. So. Gross. And the smell...goodness help me if baby poop is not one of the most foul smelling things ever. It can be almost odorless, to knock-you-off-your-feet-stinky. Guess which one t was that morning? Not odorless that is for sure! Oh geez...for YEARS (literally) I would not let her touch me with her hands. I was also convinced my other sister was contaminated (still am haha) but that's a whole different story... Ever hear the joke "Just Natural?" where the guy is walking along and sees girls with a certain color hair, asks them about it, and they run their hands up (from the top of their foreheadish) through their hair and say "Just natural." The last girl has green hair and he asks and she runs her hand up her nose and into her hair and says "just natural." (It is hard to tell without the manual demonstration! haha Anyways, my oldest younger sister would do that...she would run her hand up her snotty nose, and rub the snot all the way up her face and into her hair. I love kids, and I love my sister, but they were seriously disgusting when they were little! I think possibly more so than is usual...
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Post by rarnold18 on Oct 12, 2010 7:11:02 GMT -5
I'll agree with you little kids are gross! My middle child, Mason was the worst....This one time he was really quiet in his crib and I figured he was sleeping in so I left him alone...well about an hour later I pop my head in just to make sure he was ok and I see him sitting in his crib eating something...upon closer look he's eating raisins...? Where did those come from? I watched him and he was grabbing them out of his diaper!!!! Apparently at 1 1/2 raisins just don't get digested very well and at times come out the back end whole...ew ew ewewewewew....I was totally grossed out and gagging as I was cleaning him up and brushing his teeth...ugh....it was the worst!
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Post by rarnold18 on Oct 12, 2010 11:52:05 GMT -5
...and today Abigail has already been up to no good. I was helping her in the bathroom got her panties back on and she was good to go..or so I thought...I walk out of the bathroom to help "Satan" and all of the sudden I hear some splashing. no good. I go back in there to find Abigail "washing" her panties in the toilet...really?!?!?! really really... I just don't get it, the boys were nothing like this! She has a room full of toys plus the boys room which is busting at the seams but no she can't play with toys...she needs to play with the toilet and random shakers of spices.....ugh!
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Post by bluecoyote on Oct 12, 2010 12:05:05 GMT -5
LOL KAT!! Your sister and my youngest have that in common OMG!! And yes i remember that joke! i think i saw it on Nickelodeon back when they had cool shows like Double Dare and Stick Stickly lol it wasnt just an occasional thing with Shane though. he was a Picasso!! one day i told my husband - after i'd scrubbed puppy poop out of the carpet, and two hours later was scrubbing baby poop off carpet - "I AM NEVER scrubbing crap out of carpet again. I dont know what you're gonna do, but i am leaving town next time someone takes a dump on the floor!" well...... wouldnt ya know.... a week later i had to go with my mom to run errands. we were in a hurry so the husband said he'd watch the boys.. apparently "watching" them constitutes letting them play for two hours in their bedroom while he played a flight sim game...... yeah... time does fly doesnt it? Well when i got back i said "how are the kids?" "Oh they're fine! they've been playing like angels in their room" Cool i open the door..... and.... O ..... M..... G!!!!!!!! the windows, the beds, the walls, the sheets, the floor.... not just a part of the floor... the ENTIRE floor!!!! and both kids head to two covered in poo! PLAYING LIKE ANGELS HUH!?!?!?!? Are we talkin HELLS angels?! Seriously? WTH?? I said point blank "Your mess"... and left... (to draw a bath for my two disgusting children) my husband was spluttering and trying to say "they were fine when i last checked on them!" i wasnt hearing it. no sir. Well.... he didnt clean the carpet. HE REPLACED IT!!! HAHAHAHAH!!!! I finally got my wish. he went to the hardware store and bought vinyl tiles, ripped out the putrid carpet(yeah this was snap your head back smelly) and before midnight the kids had a whole new room. yeah i did help scrub the walls, windows, do the laundry... but i was absolutely not cleaning that carpet. i've always hated carpet anyway. what dummy decided children need carpet in their bedroom has obviously never lived with them and all their messes. i believe in rugs! i can take a rug to the cleaners or throw it out or hang it over a fence and pressure wash it... cant do that with carpet thats been nailed to the floor. this being a used house i had been itching to get rid of the carpet anyway..... it was just horrible the way it happened i still havent forgiven my husband for that ordeal. he's a great father, couldnt ask for a better family man, but i swear his IQ hits the dirt when you leave him alone lol
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