Random Rambles: Broken Pool, Basement Flooding, Plot Twists, Oh my…

I think the subject of this post pretty much covers my day. The pool is still broken. We redid the wiring, but power surges knocked the breaker, so something is still wrong with the pool somewhere. We had the pool running for a grand three minutes, and the breaker blew when I shut it off to do maintenance.

General thoughts on that? I give up. I’m going to start seeing what is involved in filling the pool in. If I can get a permit, then gradually fill it in gravel and soil bag by gravel and soil bag, I’m set. I’d probably break the concrete up with a jack hammer, then fill it in with a mixture of gravel, rock, and sand, then do the last 3 feet with dirt.

If I can get the permit, and the town allows people to fill in pools like that. Otherwise? I’m gonna drain the sucker, slice the vinyl, and leave it empty. With a little luck, it’ll ‘pop’ when we empty it. Then we’ll take our new little saw and cut the damned thing into itty bitty pieces. >.<

Or something.

It costs as much to remove a pool as it does to install one, apparently.

Then my basement flooded. I have about a cm of standing water on my ceramic tiles. At least I have a 6 inch ceramic line along the floor, so the good news? Not nearly as much wall damage as I COULD have. The bad news? There’s some water damage.

We have no idea what caused it. I’m going to acquire a shop vac tomorrow and clean it up, then I’m going to run various sources of water in the house until the source of the misery is identified. Then I can get it fixed.

Expecting a week to get the basement cleaned up and furniture moved around to allow for such an experiment.

The spot that flooded had all of the stuff we owned in storage, so there is a lot of ruined misc items. Joyous day!

This is where I’m supposed to cry “Plot twist!” and move on with my life… I think.

I want to go get a few lottery tickets. With this much bad karma headed my way, maybe I could have the luck to win a million bucks.

Then I’d take it, hire a renovation company, put the cats in boarding for 2 weeks, and come back to a repaired house…

Today, life really sucks. I really don’t want to go back into the basement, but I should… at least to start cleaning what I can clean without getting near the flood zone.