Old Faithful

Always exciting times in Taiwan, especially when it comes to pipes.

 

So this past week we came home from teaching at the Rock and our floor was totally soaked with water- thank goodness we don’t have carpet! This wasn’t the first time this has happened so we went across the street to where our landlord lives and in our broken chinese told her ‘hen duo de shui’ (lots of water). After cleaning it all up… a few hours later it happened again: the bathroom filling up with water and Ben trying to scoop it up and pour it down the toilet before it overflowed the little lip on the edge of the door.

 

Later we found out that while a 2nd floor apartment is so nice because you don’t have many stairs to climb, in a way it is bad because all the pipes from the other 8 suites above us all conglomerate together at our floor. Fantastic! (do you hear the sarcasm??)

 

The next day the repair man came with a big electric snake that is supposed to clean out the pipes but it didn’t work, so he came back with a bigger one. After some other interesting techniques, the pipes now drain beautifully! Better than ever before, but while he was fixing it we were in for a surprise! Press the play button on the video to see why. Ben almost got scalded but don’t worry, we are all safe and sound :)