Stupid Guest Tricks

The time of our "surprise" emergency evacuation drill today at work has been leaked to a few folks. Do you think they'll be aware that I know if I show up outside at our muster point wearing a heavier jacket than my uniform one and carrying a Starbucks cup?

Should have brought in my thermos then I could have filled it with hot chocolate and called it an emergency supply item. :p:

GRUMPY PIRATE wrote:Not allowed. DW has put machine off limits!!!

Poor, poor baby...Ralphie does all the dishes in the house. He LIKES to do them. Says he does them, because he can. He NEVER uses our dishwasher, which is not good because you have too run it once a week at the very least to keep the moisture in certain parts of the pipes. We had a very strong odor of sewer coming up our kitchen sink drain once and called a plumber. He said what happens is if you do not run the dishwasher once a week at least there is some back up deal going on, and you get the stench. I am not exactly sure of what the whole plumbing deal is, but, because Ralphie washes everything by hand and never runs the washer , the stench is back and we ARE showing the house. You can imagine some sharp dressed man and his wife looking at the kitchen and smelling...smelling...POOP!!!!!! We have to call the plumber again to make the odor go away. Ralph will NOT use the dishwasher. I have to remind him to turn it on and run a cycle. Maybe one of the more mechanically inclined (Randy?) can explain why we get a sewer smell in our kitchen sink drain when we don't run the washer. It reeks!
sues

techie-13 wrote:The time of our "surprise" emergency evacuation drill today at work has been leaked to a few folks. Do you think they'll be aware that I know if I show up outside at our muster point wearing a heavier jacket than my uniform one and carrying a Starbucks cup?

Just tell them its part of your Boy Scout training!!

susislicker wrote:We had a very strong odor of sewer coming up our kitchen sink drain once and called a plumber. He said what happens is if you do not run the dishwasher once a week at least there is some back up deal going on, and you get the stench.

Sewer gas will come out of drains if not blocked by water in a P Trap. That's the pipe under the sink that has a dip in it before it goes into the wall. The water in the toilet does the same thing.

Not knowing how your dishwasher drain hose is connected I gonna take a SWAG on the root mean cause of the odor. The drain hose should be connected to a inlet on the side of the garbage disposal. That means it'll be on the upstream side of the P Trap. If it's on the down stream side side of the P Trap and the dishwasher isn't used, the water in the hose will evaporate and allow gas to come out of the dishwasher vent on the back of the sink. A simple hose reroute job may be in order.

If the odor is coming out of the sink drain, all you need to do is run the faucet for a couple of seconds to fill the P Trap.

Hope that helps.

GRUMPY PIRATE wrote:Just tell them its part of your Boy Scout training!!

That would be interesting since I'm female.
Anyway, the drill is over and done, except for them rehashing stuff. One of the local TV stations sent a remote van out because they thought something was up. Guy looked disappointed when he showed up as we were going back inside.

Oh look a....

techie-13 wrote:That would be interesting since I'm female.
Anyway, the drill is over and done, except for them rehashing stuff. One of the local TV stations sent a remote van out because they thought something was up. Guy looked disappointed when he showed up as we were going back inside.

Oh look a....

OKAY Girl Scout training, you know, what dress goes with Malibu Barbie, when latte goes with a fire drill, all that stufffff!!

hobie16 wrote:Sewer gas will come out of drains if not blocked by water in a P Trap...

Which P Trap, the original or the remake with Lindsay Lohan? :D:

Ba dum bump bump!!

I thought this was amusing when I saw it today! LOL!!!!!! :twisted:


http://www.youtube.com/v/dmX7E3FlhBY&rel=1

Susi