My basement flooded with raw sewage a couple of days ago and ruined my workbench[V]. Base housing moved us into a new house with a bigger basement, and my wife said the first thing we need to get is a new workbench for my modeling.[:D] This definately sounds like a trap. This really worries me because this comes a few days after she offered to take me to Caboose Hobbies to pick up some more passenger cars.[?]
A good weekend to all
Smitty
Makes my burst water heater sound nice. What trap could be so bad one would give up a new anything to prevent?
Talk about your rotten luck.
Let’s hope that you aren’t being set up in a trap. Maybe she is becoming interested in model railroading herself?
Oh boy, that stinks!
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I guess this just goes to reinforce the old “Do Not Flush While Standing In Station”.
Actually, since it’s raw sewage, it would literally stink. I hope the layout and trains were kept upstairs.
Fortunately, we just moved here, so the layout is in the planning stages. Now I have a bigger basement to work with, what a shame.[;)]
Aaaaawwwwwww…that stinks.[;)] Now you have to make a bigger layout to fill it up.[:D] And of coarse, you can put more scenery in with the larger amount of space.[:D]
A couple of good things about model railroaders are that they tend to have a good assortment of tools and that they tend to be handy with them. So the wise wife will encourage this (at least to a certain extent) as it helps when she needs something done in the house by Mr. Handyman.
Sorry about the flood… Congrats on the larger house!!
Regards
Ed
Our water heater(s) busted last november. ow. An Inch of water in some spots. Luckily, it was contained by some stacked hoses and other things. But we had to get them replaced. They were 15 years old!!! Our washer burst a hose and flooded the laundry room last year. It was over 100 degrees in there!!! It took about thirty bath towels to sop up the water. Needless to say, our house is the age everything needs to be replaced. Now, our AC busted. What’s next, the subfloor collapsing???!!!??? Hopefully that won’t happen, there is no reason for that to.
Alright, here it is. She wants a new dining room table for our new house. I knew the basement wasn’t the only thing stinkin’!!! That’s OK, she is very supportive of our hobby anyhow. I knew it!!
Smitty
Can you scratch build it out of stuff in your parts bin??? [;)]
Ed
Would this be the first styrene and balsa kitchen table? Maybe I could trim it out with Pullman battery boxes and flex track.[:o)][:D]
The dining room table would require high grade furniture quality wood along professional type wood working tools. After building the table, you just might have enough leftover “scraps” and equipment to build your layout.
I like the way you think.[;)]
I had an aunt that had the sewage flood her basement a couple of times until she bought and had installed a sewer Anti-backup ( I can’t recall the proper name for it) valve put on the drain hole in the basement, the only drawback was that the valve stuck out of the floor a good nine inches or so. But it was a lot better than doing the stinky clean up twice a year!!
That reminds me of a cartoon that was printed years back in one of the Model Railroading magazines that showed a railroaders wife at the dinner table asking for the ‘salt and pepper’. The cartoon showed an oval layout on top of the dinner table with the salt and pepper on two separate gondolas!.. That could be an idea!!![:D]
That would be a CHECK VALVE. Most building code and designs require the soil pipes to be below basement grade, or protected overhead(in the basement). If below grade, usually accessed by a hole in the floor.
You mentioned “base housing” What base? Where? What Branch? The housing must be older, as most new stuff has such a code requirement.
Boy! what an ordeal!! [sigh]
If you ever thought of modeling a lake, now’s the time.
Our basement floor under my layout Floods in the spring if we get too much rain in a short period of time. Last year it did, but thankfully it didn’t damage my benchwork. One good thing did come out of it though. I shared my sufferings in the Coffee Shop here on the forums, and I ended up with a freelance name design, and even history to my layout which had none before. My name being Noah, the folks there came up with my railroad being the ARK!!! Once every few years the railroad participates in getting all of the citizens of the towns on my layout out of town before the flood waters hit…
I’ve really followed through on this idea. I’ve come up with a logo even, and I’m looking at getting some decals made soon.
Noah