Mystery Gift In The Sink Trap

 

Adventure Location:

Decatur, Alabama

Date: January 24, 2024

Here we are another day closer to leaving but the sewer is now fixed after giving us an unexpected surprise. The OFM got out of bed ready to scrunch up to fit in the small cabinet under the sink to get to the plumbing. And have to get out and back in at least a dozen times. We came close to that count but a major solution was achieved.

After the cabinet was emptied this was the working room he had to fit 200 pounds of OFM into.

This is the P-trap assembly that needed to be disassembled. Yep those sewer pipe nuts were on plenty tight but the OFM plopped his tummy on the wrench handle and the nuts behaved.

Once we got our hands on the clogged p-trap we quickly found the trouble maker.

Some one before the OFM owned the rig had apparently broke about seven inches of a fishing rod tip in the p-trap and that was what closed down the water flow to the gray tank by accumulation of food particles from dish washing.

So we did a big clean up of everything and assembled the system to check it out. So far about eight hours later we have not had even one drop of leakage.

What we have had is lots of rain and flooding starting in the area and hopefully the rain will slack off and give us relief from flooding. The rivers are low enough to handle the flood waters if the too small size drainage ditches can get the water to the Tennessee River.

Now it is time to relax and let the sore joints heal tonight so we can do something good tomorrow.