Update: 16th March
Well. This is hell, basically. Coughed up for the drains being cleared and a couple of flush tests seemed to be going alright. Drain folk went away, having cleared all the accumulated crap from the drain itself.
However, a day later and we were back to blockages and things flooding back up that no human should really have to see flood back up into the shower. (We have a wet room, so you know… not like it’s easily contained).
Tried to deal with it ourselves, maybe the blockage was just higher? Friday, everything went very bad indeed. I was already broken from dealing with all this, well reached the “ok, this is too much” phase and the eldest ended up with no sleep, looking after me and making sure I got through whilst trying to organise an emergency plumber to try and sort out whatever was going on. The last of our money and a couple of hundred borrowed from a relative later and things still aren’t clear but at least we now know the drain has collapsed. No jet washing that one clear.
Can’t say I took this too well and absolutely lost it. I guess I’ve been overdue losing it but you know, pretty undignified run of posts into the internet there. I’m not annoyed with myself for that or anything, like what else can you even do when you’re facing up to three or four days with all the money gone on drains, other people’s money gone on drains and plumbers and an even bigger problem than you’d anticipated and no food to go round.
Thanks, again, to the kindness of folks we’ve been able to get some food in but I dunno how long it’s going to take to get this stuff fixed up. Proper nightmare scenario. I’m dreading finding out the costs given we’re scraping through for food each month as it is without this sort of expense hammering us. Fuck me.
I’m dead grateful for all the help folks have offered so far, we’d be fucked without it in no uncertain terms. I’m really quite fucked off and tired of everything already and dealing with another disaster has just left me shattered. I need some peace and rest from all this, you know? But really, I am so grateful that folks have helped me and the kids stick around.
We’re hopefully good for food until Tuesday when the eldest should have a few quid coming in but yeah, things are still very bad indeed.
I’ll keep the donation links up even though I feel I’m way beyond taking the piss now, any and all help is like, well, it makes a huge huge difference at the moment. And inbetween all that, I hope folks will excuse me for being a bit more down and done with shit for a bit. I am trying not to be perma-glum but the world really does not want to give me and the kids a break and I am so knackered. So soz about that, soz about all of this really.
With love,
-Rob
As happens all too frequently due to the house being a trash fire, late last week the drains clogged up again, backed up and flooded the hall. I shouldn’t have to be, but I’m fairly used to this happening by now and so, usual routine of do all the things – mop up the water, try and unclog the drains ourselves etc… and though I’m a bit slower than I used to be on this, it usually breaks the back of things and life goes on.
Given my existence doesn’t seem to work in any way other than as some sort of cosmic joshing competition between laugh loving space beings or something at the mo, this time things aren’t that simple and despite trying to do it all ourselves for the past three or four days, it’s abundantly clear by the fact I can’t have water on for long or flush the toilet without things returning, that this isn’t something I can handle myself.
Also, the amount of literal shit I’m having to clean up. Bit of a giveaway, that one.
And of course, because I’m me and I generally have no money these days, I have no money to afford even a flush of the drains right now, much less the rest of the work. I’m already juggling how to last until the next payday for normal things, never mind this.
Which leaves me here. Again. Fucked off to high heaven, wanting some peace and quiet, a bit of time to keep pushing forward with the house, but more urgently, having a bathroom that floods with shit if anyone flushes the toilet or runs the tap and that’d be rough if it was just me, it’s not like I can tell the kids not to need a shit or anything, I don’t think that works.
I’m just bruised and dazed by the unrelenting everything of the past few years, it’s been great to get back to having the basic necessities to y’know, store food, cook food, wash clothes and that again (though I need to clear the conservatory out before I can get the dryer in still) but life is taking the piss still and with no money to speak of, it’s not like I’ve got any runway when things like this happen and fuck things up some more.
So I don’t really know what to do, apart from keep going, ask for some help and, well, keep going.
If anyone can help, so I can have a literal shit-free house, I’d be grateful.
I’ve set a ko-fi goal that’s a (incredibly) little over what I should need but just in case anything else crops up, you know? The old gofundme is still up if folks prefer that and the PayPal is where I left it. I hate this, I hate all of it, but fucked if I know what else to do right now.
Thanks, and sorry. If anyone knows what imp I’ve pissed off in the past to be cursed, can you ask them to tone it down a bit as well. It’s long past funny now.
https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/retroremakes
https://www.gofundme.com/f/rob-and-family-get-their-lives-and-house-back