Move to St. Louis!!
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- mrseaves0
yo. I live by mom's deli on Lansdowne. I love stl hills. It's city and suburban all at the same time. Cool old houses are awesome if you have the cash to update the old crap. (we don't) So about once every few months something goes wrong. Don't think I'd have it any other way though.
um yeah. 4 ft is crazy. I would have moved.
- I live right around here as well. Nice area. Bad plumbing.duckofrubber
- gramme0
Yeah, I suppose at the end of the day it's something of a first-world problem...maybe the only people I have a legitimate gripe with are the sewer people for their horrible service. Even then, I know they aren't responsible for the home plumbing situation in this city. Thankfully, our home warranty will cover most of the cost of repair.
I know a guy in Mexico City who witnessed an entire section of road collapse to reveal a cave where a massive, very old sewage main had burst. He, an engineer and several other people were bathing in hundreds, maybe thousands of gallons of crap as they brought in sandbags to hoist the pipes back together. It took them something like 12 hours to fix the pipes. In places like that, there is no municipal system to begin with.
- j_red0
gramme, that's the one of the drwabacks of having an old home; along with the 'charm' you also get old wiring/plumbing etc. We just moved into a 1906 home, we could have bought new and it would have been cheaper and less problems, but it comes with the territory i guess. i guess i don't know how it feels to have your house full of sewage....sorry to hear that.
- skwiotsmith0
'hills'? Are you talking about The Hill? Lived in STL for 19 years and never heard of anything called the 'hills'...
- gramme0
true dat...
Maybe I should look at this as pre-diaper training. I guess I passed, since I managed to not puke while shovelling up the scatological evidence after the water went down.
- gramme0
St. Louis Hills is the area south of "The Hill" proper, or the Little Italy area of STL. The area is south of Columbia, north of Gravois. Bartolino's is on The Hill. Da Baldo is in St. Louis Hills. The new Schnuck's @ Chippewa is in St. Louis Hills.
- mrseaves0
Yes, and you can pay extra to have a camera ran through the pipes, but not always do they find something (as in our case).
- duckofrubber0
It's always good to see our 1% tax in action. God bless this city. Of course, we do have the cleanest drinking water in America, so drink up?
And I too own a grandfathered old home in the city, and I'm just counting the days till I get to discover ankle deep sewage in my basement. Hopefully later rather than sooner...
Good luck sir and give em hell.
- mrseaves0
gramme, I can sympathize- we had the same problems this summer... we live in the stl hills area. Happy new year to you and welcome to the joys of homeownership!
- Point50
I've never had sewage in my basement, but did have flood in my basement in UT once. but it wasn't from rain, it was because some asshat farmer up in he hills above my neighborhood left his irrigation system on. Well, the drainage pipe for a lot of the farms up there happened to run right down thru the property that I was renting. There was some blockage in the drainage pipe just past my property, so it backed up into my yard and put 4 ft. of water into my basement (this house was built in 1896). I was in college at the time and no, I didn't have renter's insurance. So I started making phone calls and found out about the origin of this drainage system and the whole irrigation deal. The lady from the county office basically told me "good luck with any of the farmers admitting to having left their irrigation pipes on; and if you do find out who did it you'll need a lawyer."
So basically, I kissed about $3000 worth of comics and football cards away that night. Such a rookie mistake by someone who had never lived in a house with basement before.
- Point50
what I meant to say was:
that sucks gramme. I've been thru something similar, but not with sewage. Maybe you should look into getting some estimates on something that would prevent it from happening again?
good luck.
- gramme0
Of course we got the house inspected, and by a guy who was reputed to be very thorough. Apparently this plumbing situation is par for the course in St. Louis city houses that are more than 50 years old. It seems checking the sewage/storm pipes is not standard.
The city inspected the plumbing before we moved in and claimed it was fine. However, that report was paid for by the rehabbers who sold us the house...so it prolly wasn't too thorough.
And, what mrseaves said.
- mrdobolina0
SewageToday
- blaw0
On the other hand, you could live around here where they do force you to bring that exact situation up to code, at a cost of $4,000-$8,000, like it or not.
Believe me, I'm sympathetic to your situation and completely understand why you are upset. You are, however, pissed at the wrong people.
- So who should I be mad at? The people who laid the pipes 85 years ago? Seriously, any ideas?gramme
- If a pipe breaks, or a wire shorts, or the roof leaks, who do you blame? You just take it on the chin and move on.blaw
- But isn't the city partially to blame for being lax with plumbing codes? STL is seriously unionized, you'd think they'd be a bit more vigilant.gramme
- ...they'd be a bit more vigilant.gramme
- leetv0
I lived over on Shaw.. loved it, rough neighborhood with beautiful homes. I thought it would improve. It never did and it never will.
I had so many problems with the city it was ridiculous. Move out of the state of misoury.
Best thing I ever did was move.
- skwiotsmith0
Alright. Shows you how often I got into the burbs...
- gramme0
It's not exactly the burbs though. That whole area is within St. Louis city limits (hence South City). There are a lot of houses but it feels like the city imho. Chesterfield is burbs. Echkk. Gimme city or country. Blow up the rest.
- Rather, how long it's been since I lived in STL...skwiotsmith
- hahagramme
- they are blowing some up as we speak (hwy 40)mrseaves