"Today, I found out my walls are literally 2mm thick with no insulation behind them. Explains the 46 degree warmth in my home. Also, the pipes froze solid..even the large 10 inch toilet one. Basement's flooded with nice, cold water.Add the bathroom, too as well as the joining closets and out into the living room... Thank God I have no rugs here.. Toilet lines froze so badly, that the water didn't stop running, BUT the bowl wasn't draining due to freezing.... It's -7 degrees down in the basement right at this time.. Apparently the heat lamps I set up, to keep the pipes from freezing, were turned off.. I think one kid is to blame, but who knows, damages are done.... Tomorrow, I'm skating in my own basement on a slick, new sheet of ice..."
That, my friends, was last night... This morning, much more fun's abound..Yes, my basement has a nice sheet of ice and we can now skate while doing laundry...Toilet was so bad during the night, that I was forced to turn the water off to it and hope for the best... AFTER forcing the old, cold water down, forcing several gallons of hot water into it AND leaving my only remaining heater, on, to "babysit" the bowl all night...Which means, the rest of the room that heater was for... well..43 degrees when I got up this morning...
Sun is shining outside, though, giving me a sliver of hope, for a quick thaw, but knowing winter time sunny days, it's just that woman in Heaven, laughing at me again...
