As mentioned in my previous post, yesterday I had to rush to the shop to buy a bilge pump - not to keep my boat from sinking, but to pump out sewage from the bathroom after the sewage tube got clogged.
This evening the toilet problem was solved. There is still some cleanup work in the basement, though ... the sewage pipe was going through three rooms, under the floor. The last room (first on the photos) was the laundry room. For some reason the tenants had five washing machines in this room, that caused quite some extra work before the digging could start.
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This oven is not much in use ... but, perhaps it could be useful for reducing humidity problems in the basement, heat up the whole house (as heat usually travels upwards) or to dry clothes.
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Here is the old tube - it was completely rusty and broken. I guess that when we got the tubes sucked, they broke more up, probably we also got soil and rocks into the tube together with fragments of broken tube, clogging it completely up in only some few days.
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The ceiling here is almost dry by now
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What a crazy amount of damage to deal with!
Five washing machines?! Are they mud people? Five doesn't even make sense.
Best of luck clearing all of that up, it looks like so much work!
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I don't have time or capacity to cope with it, and I got a relatively good offer from the renovation master - he will remove all the floor while he's at it, dig the whole basement a bit deeper and make a new floor with modern insulation. It will then be possible to make a small apartment with proper height under the ceiling. Though, we will probably need to borrow even more money to complete it.
On the five washing machines ... actually, six ...
There are like two separate apartments. I don't remember very well, but I believe the previous owner left two washing machines, one for each apartment. They even have separate electrical outlets, connected to the meters of the respective apartments. (The water is not metered). I find it a bit silly with such an arrangement, the biggest reason for having the laundry room in the basement was that washing machines were expensive things, and that one washing machine typically was sufficient for several apartments. When I was a child, we were eight apartments sharing two washing machines.
One of the washing machines left behind by the previous owner is a really old model - I think it has certain qualities, not possible to buy such kind of washing machines anymore. I sometimes think that if a thing has survived several decades and still works, it has proven to be of superior quality and shouldn't be exchanged with a brand new product of unknown quality. Anyway, the tenants disagreed, they didn't want to use such an old model, so we appointed that they would drive it away for us. Though, they never did, they just moved it out of the room.
I believe each of the new tenants brought with them their own machine - so that makes three washing machines in the room and one outside.
As for the two extra machines, I can only guess. One reason could be that there was a breakdown and that they just threw in an extra machine without bothering to throw the old one. Actually there were three machines connected to the water, so it could be that they considered they needed more capacity than what was offered with one machine. It could be that I have it wrong, and that one or two of the machines weren't washing machines but drying machines.
I do know that the Polish tenants in the first floor has a tendency to collect lots of "junk" and that they are also selling quite many bikes. It could be that they are doing arbitrage trading - if having a car and the skills to lift and carry washing machines, I believe it's quite easy to get a washing machine for free here in Oslo. It's also possible to buy them dirt cheap. If it's a good machine and if having some patience it can be possible to sell it for a higher price. Second hand stuff also typically have a higher value in Poland than here in Oslo, they have a van and they usually fill it up before going to Poland.
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Wow. That looks like a lot of work @tobixen. I love the look of that old stove though. Great find! 😁
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Really, 5 washing machines in the bathroom? Was there any room for people to bath etc? What people will do amazes me.
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This washing room was only used for the laundry. I'll write some theories why there are so many washing machines as a reply to the other comment.
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I respect masterful men very much!
actually, a man should be masterful, even if he has intellectual job.
there're so many different situations in life when hands are needed, and definite skills are required, and it's great if a man doesn't run to call to other masters, but can solve the problem by himself.
the job you've done is huge!
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Right ... I could probably have done the digging, but I even had no clue where to dig and for all I knew the problem could have been out in the garden. We do have a clever person helping us with this stuff.
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it's ok if there is a man-adviser who can help and promt, but you're active in the process.
I see more and more men who are just out of use in any home work or activity. They can do nothing, and they just don't want to be able to do it! And it's ok if they at least can pay for professionals who can do it instead of them, but very often they even can't earn money for it...Useless people. We call them "white-handed" men meaning their hands are always white and clean because they do nothing)
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I do quite much house work, baking bread, cleaning clothes, trying to keep the kitchen clean, delivering and picking up from the kinder garden, making breakfast and preparing lunch boxes for the kids (for some reason food in the kinder gardens and schools are out of budget here in Norway), etc, and I do pretty much everything including plumbing, electrics and painting myself on the boat (sometimes I rent people to help me, if I can afford it). I definitively got my hands dirty on Tuesday as I was cleaning sewage and pumping it out through a window. So I'm definitively not a "white handed man" - though, the dealing with those sewage pipes and that floor I've totally put away to this "adviser" and his company :-)
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What a project!!! That looks like a lot of work!
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Holy shit @tobixen. That is a major mess. I hope the insurance company comes through for you. 5 washing machines, do you know if they all work? does the rent include water because if it does maybe they were taking advantage and doing laundry for a business? Thanks for sharing the photos. Sure gives a reality check on what had to be done.
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Water is generally not metered in Norway and Oslo (it's possible to install a meter and pay less for the water, but it's hardly profitable compared to the installation job - in Norway water is cheap and plumbers are expensive), and no, they do not operate a laundry service :-)
Maybe one machine came with the house. The tenant upstairs had two machines, one wasn't working very well and should be thrown he said - so the tenants downstairs must have two or three machines, but it was only the youngest child at home yesterday and he wasn't quite sure.
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