Item: our plumbing sprung a leak.
Item: over the phone, I got a ballpark figure out of the plumbing company, five to seven hundred bucks.
Item: when the guy presented his quotes, they totaled just over two thousand dollars. What could we do? We okayed it.
Item: when the guy finished, he’d found that one of his line items was not enough to clear the sewer-line blockage.
Net result: two thousand dollars poorer, no working toilet or shower upstairs, and a new quote in hand for about seven thousand dollars, work which will entail a backhoe, a jackhammer, giant trenches in the lawn, and a torn-up expanse of concrete.
BONUS: I have diarrhea this evening and now must attempt to trot up and down the stairs with my own personal plumbing valves held firmly in the off position, no mean feat.
I am a less-than-satisfied homeowner tonight.
Would this possibly be covered by homeowner’s insurance?
Oh, beleive me, we’re looking into it. We also need to get some kind of confirmation from another plumber that the excavation stuff is necessary.