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Question about spending 11 days chasing a leak in a mop sink, and the fix was a $3 part
I do maintenance at a 60 unit building in Boise and last month a mop sink kept backing up every time a tenant ran laundry. I snaked the line twice, replaced the P trap, and ran a camera through 40 feet of pipe before I figured out the real issue. It was the rubber flapper in the shared standpipe, worn down so the washer discharge was pushing water back up into the sink. The part cost $3 at the hardware store and the whole job took 11 days of my life I will never get back. Does anyone else have a maintenance story where the fix was way smaller than the search?
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patricia_bennett263d ago
Wait, 11 days though? I have to ask, were you really out there every single day on this one sink, or did it just sit for a while between visits? Because snaking twice, swapping the trap, and running a camera sounds like maybe two or three trips, not 11 days of actual work. I'm not trying to bust your chops, but "11 days of my life" reads more like the calendar time it took than the hours you actually put in. A $3 flapper that got missed in a shared standpipe is annoying for sure, but that's also just how plumbing goes sometimes, the small stuff hides behind the big stuff. The part being cheap doesn't mean the search was dumb, it means you were working through the list like anybody would.
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