Would a blower work? Or is it too long of a space?

Maybe we should invest in a LoT plumbers snake and just pass it around as needed.

Once it got to Leo, we would never see it again.

I thought he got his pipes cleaned fairly regularly? ;)

oh no you dint! LOL



GD, it is exausting reading these adventures. but, i am glad you are sharing them and so happy for you two to find your xanadu.

i also used Home Depot for a variety of my projects... and a general contractor with a team of workers for each specific project.

one thing that worked well, when things ever developed a kink, was to contact the Home Depot manager (he knew me well eventually) and ask to get a message to the District Manager. that usually got things popping fast without the DM ever hearing about it.

continued good luck and best wishes on your new home:cheers:

It is sad that this is what it takes to get things accomplished.

If it's the way the vent is designed, have any other neighbors had similiar issues? Maybe someone has the "in" on a fix. Homeowners association maybe?

Quiet, you!

Yeah, yeah. We could just go buy the part and install it without calling a repair guy (that would be the $200 I guessed, which seems to be about the standard minimum to get anyone to your house to do anything). But screw it, it's a 20 year old piece of crap that doesn't match our kitchen. This was a good excuse to find room in the budget.

What we're finding as we go through doing the few little improvements that we had planned is...the previous owners were lazy turds. Everything they did was done half-assed. Things like the new floor just being slapped over the old floor. Or the fact that anywhere that should have 2 screws holding something on only has 1 screw. Most of the stuff is cosmetic, so it's not a big deal, but stil. So I'm really glad we're doing such a complete overhaul on the kitchen so at least one area of this place will have been done with an entire ass.

They usually put down flooring over existing flooring.

Could save me abou $100 every tiume I have to go the GI doc. Not a bad idea.

But if MBC had it before me.....who knows where that thing would have been.