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Open Question: I just bought a home and found out the seller did not disclose important plumbing info!! Please help!?
OK, so I just bought this house on March 12th. Let me say up front that I did waive my right to have an inspection done, so that may take away any grounds that I have to do anything about this problem….Anyways, the seller of course signed documents saying there were NO problems with the plumbing or anything else in the house.

Well after the third day we were here we hooked my washing machine up. As soon as it started to drain I started getting water everywhere in my bathroom floor. It was coming up in the bathtub, between the comodes and floor, and up in the kitchen sink. So obviously there is a problem. I called the city hoping that it was on there end since I have city sewer and water. Well, they thought it was and cleared the line. About 10 days later it happened again. I called them and they came and cleaned the line again. Well it happened for the THIRD time in 3 weeks again this morning. So I again called the city. After close examination today they found out that they were actually cleaning my pipe, not theres. So they looked at there side of the pipe and it was clean, so therefore the problem lies on my side of the line…

With that all being said…I called my grandpa, a former plumber to see what I need to do. Well the good thing about us living in a small town is that he happened to be sitting with a guy who has done tons of plumbing work on my paticular house. We got to talking and realized that the plumber has been here numerous times for the same problem. The plumbing here is a total nightmare and I am probably looking at tons of money to fix it. Also, I can look at the bottom of the comodes and see that there has been water come under them this way before. I never realized it until after we bought the place.

So, do I have any grounds for making the seller pay for this problem, at least partially?? Or did I throw all that out the window when I waived my inspection? (stupid me, I know now!)…What can I do? The seller obviously knew about this when he sold it to me, and didn’t say anything. I have also found something else that he lied about. He claimed that the laundry room was wired for an electric dryer. There was a 220 plug in there and everything. He had a gas dryer, but I have electric. Well when we went to plug my dryer into the plug, it was dead. Upon further investigation we found that the 220 wiring that used to go to the dryer had been ran to the stove (I assume they used to have gas, and changed to electric). So we have had to do wiring work right off the bat as well, and now this huge plumbing problem.

I called the seller and he of course said he had no knowledge of there being any plumbing problem, and he said that he was liable for any cost that I will have to incur….Can you please give me advice?? This man has totally taken advantage of me, and I don’t know what to do…I personally don’t think that an inspector would have found this problem because I would have never knew that I had it unless I ran the washing machine. You can flush comodes, and take showers with no problem….It’s when you use a lot of water such as washing clothes that you get the flooding…

I know this is long, but if you took the time to read this all and give me a serious answer, I really do appreciate it. I just don’ t know where to go from here.
I am sorry…I meant to say the seller said he IS NOT liable for the cost…not that he is.

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Resolved Question: what to cover basement walls with in what will always be an unfinished basement?
We are planning to sell our 1890’s home soon. I have an old, dingy, dark basement. The house has a stone foundation and so looks old and crumbly but home inspector says structurally there isn’t anything wrong with foundation just looks, well old. The previous owners put up studs around entire basement and then nailed up that brown paneling with the black indentations on it. So of course when we moved in the basement looked “nicer.” Well over the past 6 years we have had a few leaks (which have been repaired) but have caused a lot of dampness in the basement. This in turn has made the paneling (near the floor only) bubble and just look like it was wet at one time. Well we obviously can’t sell a house that looks water damaged so we are planning to rip down all the paneling. I am wondering what we can put up in it’s place that is cheap. This basement will never be used for anything but storage and laundry so it doesn’t need to look great but I also don’t want to just put up pieces of plywood either. I want it to look like nice walls but only have a very very small budget. If I was going to stay living here I would just rip the paneling down and leave it but like I said the stone foundation looks kinda scary!
I like that idea! My question is how do you cut the bottom half off. Say I know the bottom two feet need to come off around the entire basement. Do I just use a circular saw to cut a straight line, wouldn’t I accidently cut into the studs? The paneling used is whole pieces from floor to ceiling so there are no breaks. As you can see, I am not at all handy but I am going to attempt something!

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Resolved Question: New House w/ Crawl Space Problem…HELP!?
Ok, I’m new to all this new house stuff. It turns out that the house that we are in process of buying, the crawl space has 4 inches of water. The termite inspector suggested a French Drain. What is a french drain? Who installs french drains? How much does it cost to get it installed? The house is 3yrs old (foreclosed), In good conditions except the door and carpet needs to be replaced…oh of course the crawl space needs to be taken care of with all that water (when it accumilates when it rains). The house is about 1400 sq ft and the house is somewhat leveled; so the house has a little problem draining. I’m planning doing something about making the gutters longer and more efficient. What do you guys think?

P.S. I did get an home inspector to check out the house…. That was pretty much the inspector’s main concern.

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