Dana? I am still facepalming all over the place about your neighbor.

In all fairness, I don't think that I would have insisted that they check for blockage if the toilet was flushing.

Because her toilet was flushing, so obviously there was no problem. If it had been our house, I promise they would have been made to check, but she apparently just took their word for it.

Oy. She deserves stinky stuff for her stupidity. I'm just sorry she got some of your stuff, too.

Heh.

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In all fairness, I don't think that I would have insisted that they check for blockage if the toilet was flushing.

Ditto here. Though I've learned that upper story apartments are the way to go plumbing wise, as it's the ground floor units that everything backs up into.

Dana, I'd agree with Vortex. At least, once a little time and distance had set in.

Because, with that sort of thing, you need someone to scream at. And it's either the neighbor or the workers who were there (and didn't catch the block) yesterday.

In all fairness, I don't think that I would have insisted that they check for blockage if the toilet was flushing.

You can usually tell if the flushing is sort of slow. With us, we didn't have a full blockage, and no flooding. As soon as I saw the flush wasn't working 100%, I had DH snaking the toilet. It takes hardly any effort to snake a line and that can usually clear a minor blockage or at least tell you if there is a major blockage.

It was unseating our toilet that found the yellow submarine tub toy.

I think a friend of ours also had to call a plumber after a playdate with us at her house. But since she also has a 3 year old and a 1 year old, I'm choosing to blame one of her kids.

At least you can blame the kids, Cash. Mom accidentally flushed a thing of deoderant. In unseating the toilet, the bowl broke. So they had to get a whole new toilet, which is vastly inferior because of its lowflowness.

Though I've learned that upper story apartments are the way to go plumbing wise, as it's the ground floor units that everything backs up into.

That's pretty accurate--I had a major hair clog in my shower pipes that caused the water from my shower to come out of my downstairs neighbor's ceiling light fixture. I had noticed the shower was draining slowly, so I used a lot of Liquid Plummer to speed it up, but I guess it wasn't enough to unclog it completely. I first knew about the problem when she started banging on my door while I was taking a shower--I apologized profusely, and got maintenance over to snake the pipe ASAP.

Though I've learned that upper story apartments are the way to go plumbing wise,

Except when your plumbing goes through the downstairs neighbor's apartment and said neighbor leaves for Florida for a week and turns their heat off when it's subzero outside. Guaranteed frozen pipes.