water main break in front of our condo

[demtenjeep]

may be without water 24 hours



sheesh

[SheltieLover]

1. Sorry to hear!

[demtenjeep]

2. they provided bottled water

but I wasted my one flush at 3 am and now may need to buy water to flush

[SheltieLover]

6. Oh no!

My prev house had a well, so every time elect went out, there would be no water supply. I empathize.

Save 2 liter & gallon jugs in case it takes longer to fix.

Is there a community well you can fill jugs for washing & flushing?

Hang in there, my friend!

[demtenjeep]

8. our community provided water bottles

and we are going to the dollar store to buy gallons so we can flush


the bad thing is-I have crohn's and my shot comes tomorrow

today is unpleasant

[SheltieLover]

9. I hope they get it fixed quickly.

Sorry to hear about Chrons.

[demtenjeep]

10. oh thanks. I have been living with it for over 20 years

it is just a bad day not to be able to flush - gross actually

[SheltieLover]

12. ...

😏

[Irish_Dem]

15. My condo had a sewer pipe back up and I had raw sewage everywhere in the condo.

Talk about gross.

(The builder screwed up when building the condo building and I had raw sewage from the whole building in my condo.)

I had to live elsewhere for two months and fight with the builder to not just wash things off but destroy and replace them with new as per state law.

So believe me, if the sewage is contained to your toilet it is a good day for you.

But I sure sympathize with your situation.

[Bluethroughu]

3. That's terrible, hopefully they get a quick fix!

[XanaDUer2]

4. Sorry

That sucks

[Lettuce Be]

5. Our water main broke two weeks ago. First company ghosted us!

We called Roto-Rooter, and they said Aug 1st so we tried another company who said they could come right away so we told Roto-Rooter we were good. Well, after a two-week run-around, we called Roto-Rooter back and got on their schedule. Today they are coming to fix, so even though we put them off it's still going to be Aug 2nd! Crazy

Luckily we could turn the water on and off ourselves, so have been turning it on a couple times a day to quick wash dishes, flush toilets, fill jugs. Ugh. Not fun. Can't imagine having to go down to the creek to get water.

Going to cost about $7k.

[BlackSkimmer]

7. Gah. that sucks.

Maybe go buy one of those big 5 gallon jugs things for toilets and so on.

And plenty of regular water bottles (or wine lol) for drinking.

[fierywoman]

11. Get a (new) plastic garbage can and keep it filled with water in the bathroom, if you have

room: in the bathtub.

[SheltieLover]

13. Have they given a repair timeframe?

🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞 for quick.

[MissB]

14. Usually

The repair is fairly quick but it’s the required bacteriological sample result that takes 18-24 hours to be available.

Sorry you have to deal with this!

[demtenjeep]

16. this

but at least I can flush soon.

[onethatcares]

17. is it water supply or sanitary sewer that's broken?

the situations are pretty different cause you wouldn't use bottled water to flush a toilet.

good luck with either.

[demtenjeep]

18. they shut off water to the entire building

no sewer or drinking/bathing.


I had used the toilet and didn't realize I had already spent my one flush so had to flush using a gallon of bought water