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Okay, 2 weeks ago, my basement(unfinished) began to flood.
The Flood was caused by a in a small portion of a pipe. That portion of pipe was removed, but it sent pressure to another "dead" pipe and every time the toliet was flushed, water would pour out. So that pipe was cut and capped and everything seemed great.
Then it began to rain, and water started to seep through the same replaced pipe but further down. So, once it stopped raining, the water stopped flooding.
Now, today it's been sunny with NO rain, and yet water is still coming through.
It's just coming from nowhere, we didn't even flush the toliet.
Is this "water" or sewage? Believe me you'll know the difference. I am guessing that you are in older area that unfortunately has "combined sewers" and the rain may have just been the trigger that expose a whole lot of semi-interrelated problems with not just pipes in your basement but a range of poorly connected sewer lines that probably flow from your neighbors...
These are the kinds of things that plumbers get bad names from as the only sane way to fix these issues are to trench all the way back to the biggest sewer line furthest away and then start fixing all the way to each fixture in your home AND THAT STILL MIGHT NOT deal with problems like gutters and french drains in your yard or neighbors yards that are improperly cross connected.
Best case this is thousands of dollars worth of labor and parts. Worst case it is TENS of thousands of dollars...
How long have you been in this house? How bad do you want to stay there?
Is this "water" or sewage? Believe me you'll know the difference. I am guessing that you are in older area that unfortunately has "combined sewers" and the rain may have just been the trigger that expose a whole lot of semi-interrelated problems with not just pipes in your basement but a range of poorly connected sewer lines that probably flow from your neighbors...
These are the kinds of things that plumbers get bad names from as the only sane way to fix these issues are to trench all the way back to the biggest sewer line furthest away and then start fixing all the way to each fixture in your home AND THAT STILL MIGHT NOT deal with problems like gutters and french drains in your yard or neighbors yards that are improperly cross connected.
Best case this is thousands of dollars worth of labor and parts. Worst case it is TENS of thousands of dollars...
How long have you been in this house? How bad do you want to stay there?
I'm asking this for my grandmother who has rented the home for 24 years.
We could spend literally days trying to diagnose a problem that is being explained in ? terms.
Why don't you just call the LL and tell (s)he that there's a problem and it needs to be fixed before there are possible health concerns!
I agree with KB. Landlord problem. I recently had to have a sewer line replaced on a property I own. It is just part of the deal. Took me all of a day to figure out options and let the job get done. It is MUCH cheaper to jump on a problem like this fast than let it cause major ongoing damage.
If you can't tell by seeing then its unlikely we can tell over the internet. From your description even a plumber couldn't tell over the internet.Seesm to involve the sewer line from the toilet problem.
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