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Talk about some bad luck
5 years ago
Sorry for the inactivity for a bit here. For starters I've been working almost exclusively on the recent YCH I ran just to get it done but had a bit of a hold up for about a week and some change.
Was just that time of year where everything goes to shit I guess.
So started out with my husband taking his car in for service expecting a bit of a bill but not a big one. Found out later that afternoon that it was gonna be 3k to fix a cracked radiator and some other shit so, a pretty big chunk of change but could have dealt with it. Then literally that same afternoon, SOMEHOW, this box truck that was dropping off appliances to a building lot across the street snags itself on power lines, rips a pole down then somehow rips OUR lines, box and all, off the side of our house yet somehow everything was still live despite a surge. Rest of the afternoon is spent with the fire department, the power company, trying to file a home insurance claim. 600$ electrician bill to replace everything that got trashed but thankfully seemed like the surge didn't wreck anything else. Next day a claims adjuster comes out bright and early, takes photos, the usual, and just dips to update the claim.
Same day we start noticing something weird going on with the water. Hot water running out of cold taps, sputtering. So thinking okay great, guess the surge did jack something up, probably the thermostat in the hot water tank. Don't chalk it up as an immediate issue and just jot down a note to call a plumber or something in the next day or two.
Get an email the next day that we didn't meet our deductible so even though it totally wasn't our fault, we gotta pay the 600$ to the electrician. Fine, whatever. Rude but whatever. My husband gets home that evening and all of a sudden goes "we have no water". Was working fine just that morning. Cue confusion and going out to inspect what was wrong.
Our well pump fried itself. So now we need a well company. Manage to get one to come out the next day. Confirm that the thing's totally shot and it'd be 1800$ JUST to replace the pump and on top of that, they couldn't even manage to get cracking on that until later in the week. Husband decides that's not gonna fly, rightfully so, even the neighbors said that was pricey, so he and a workmate whos done pumps before decide to try and fix it themselves. Couple days without a working well, backfeeding water from the neighbor's into our place and... nothin. New pump isn't working. not building enough pressure so still have to call back out a well company. Different one this time.
Basically prolonged the inevitable. The new pump wasn't powerful enough for our water table or something and we NEEDED the same type of pump we had had. Which, unfortunately, was still 1000$. Took all day but everything was pulled and replaced. Pump, drop pipe, foot valve, the works, all brand new but the guy still kept it around 1800$ for us by tossing in some freebies here and there with things he already had on his truck. And. At least meant we didn't have to have a whole new well drilled.
So at least now everything's back and working and hopefully there's nothing else planning to suddenly fuck up cause I don't think my frazzled little head could take it C:
Was just that time of year where everything goes to shit I guess.
So started out with my husband taking his car in for service expecting a bit of a bill but not a big one. Found out later that afternoon that it was gonna be 3k to fix a cracked radiator and some other shit so, a pretty big chunk of change but could have dealt with it. Then literally that same afternoon, SOMEHOW, this box truck that was dropping off appliances to a building lot across the street snags itself on power lines, rips a pole down then somehow rips OUR lines, box and all, off the side of our house yet somehow everything was still live despite a surge. Rest of the afternoon is spent with the fire department, the power company, trying to file a home insurance claim. 600$ electrician bill to replace everything that got trashed but thankfully seemed like the surge didn't wreck anything else. Next day a claims adjuster comes out bright and early, takes photos, the usual, and just dips to update the claim.
Same day we start noticing something weird going on with the water. Hot water running out of cold taps, sputtering. So thinking okay great, guess the surge did jack something up, probably the thermostat in the hot water tank. Don't chalk it up as an immediate issue and just jot down a note to call a plumber or something in the next day or two.
Get an email the next day that we didn't meet our deductible so even though it totally wasn't our fault, we gotta pay the 600$ to the electrician. Fine, whatever. Rude but whatever. My husband gets home that evening and all of a sudden goes "we have no water". Was working fine just that morning. Cue confusion and going out to inspect what was wrong.
Our well pump fried itself. So now we need a well company. Manage to get one to come out the next day. Confirm that the thing's totally shot and it'd be 1800$ JUST to replace the pump and on top of that, they couldn't even manage to get cracking on that until later in the week. Husband decides that's not gonna fly, rightfully so, even the neighbors said that was pricey, so he and a workmate whos done pumps before decide to try and fix it themselves. Couple days without a working well, backfeeding water from the neighbor's into our place and... nothin. New pump isn't working. not building enough pressure so still have to call back out a well company. Different one this time.
Basically prolonged the inevitable. The new pump wasn't powerful enough for our water table or something and we NEEDED the same type of pump we had had. Which, unfortunately, was still 1000$. Took all day but everything was pulled and replaced. Pump, drop pipe, foot valve, the works, all brand new but the guy still kept it around 1800$ for us by tossing in some freebies here and there with things he already had on his truck. And. At least meant we didn't have to have a whole new well drilled.
So at least now everything's back and working and hopefully there's nothing else planning to suddenly fuck up cause I don't think my frazzled little head could take it C:
